Tamás Bodoky

Tamás Bodoky

Europe & Eurasia, Hungary, 2012

Tamás Bodoky, Hungary, is editor‐in‐chief of atlatszo.hu, a watchdog organization and investigative news portal, and assistant professor at Károli Gáspár University in Budapest. As a journalist, he has covered science and technology, environmental and human rights issues, corruption and organized crime cases, and misuse of power and police brutality. For almost a decade he reported and edited at the Hungarian news portal Index.hu. Before that he covered science and technology for Magyar Narancs weekly newspaper. He won the Gőbölyös Soma Prize for investigative journalism and the Szabadság Prize for articles on unrest and police brutality in Hungary in 2006. He also won the Iustitia Regnorum Fundamentum Award and the Hungarian Pulitzer Memorial Prize for his work on corruption. He is a member of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and part of a team that won a Daniel Pearl Award for courageous journalism.