Brigitte Alfter is a German-born journalist based in Copenhagen. She is a director of the European Fund for Investigative Journalism and a co-founder and a manager of the Scoop Project (a network of journalists in the Eastern and Southeastern Europe).
Brigitte has covered European affairs and EU-matters for a number of years, she specialises in the use of Freedom of Information legislation as a journalistic tool.
From 2004-2008 she was the Brussels-correspondent for the Danish daily newspaper Information and since 2008 has chaired the International Committee of the Danish Association for Investigative Journalism.
She is a co-founder of Farmsubsidy.org, a collaborative project that tracks the €55 billion of subsidies paid out each year under the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy.
In 2007-2008 she participated in a research team of the Investigative Reporters Network Europe, where journalists join forces for cross-border research. The story, about pharmaceuticals, was published at the same time in Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium.
In 2006 Brigitte was among the nominees for the Danish Cavling award, the most important journalism award in Denmark, then in 2007 she was on the winning team for the Freedom of Information Award of the American Investigative Reporters and Editors.
In November 2009 she was invited to the Nordic Investigative Journalism Conference in Copenhagen to talk about cross-border reporting and about freedom of information in the EU.
Stefan Candea
Stefan Candea, Romania, has worked for print publications, radio and television station. He was an investigative journalist for the newspaper Evenimentul Zilei, where he wrote about the connections between international organised crime networks, and high-ranking politicians and public servants. One article showed the links between La Cosa Nostra and associates of the Romanian president and the Foreign Secret Service director. Other investigations by Candea include the international arms trade, illegal international adoptions and the diamond business in Romania.
Candea is a co-founder of the Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism, and worked for the first investigative TV show in Romania, Reporteri Incognito. He also does freelance research and production work for several foreign media outlets, including the BBC, Channel 4, ITN, ZDF, and Canal Plus. Since March 2001, he had been a correspondent for Reporters sans Frontieres in Romania. One of Candea’s latest projects for CRJI is an investigation of the separatist region of Transdniester. He also teaches investigative journalism at Bucharest, Iasi, and Timisoara universities.
Natasha Crvenkovska
Macedonia
Anne Haubek
Anne Haubek, a journalist since 1993, works for the Danish Broadcasting Corperation DR, hosting a weekly radio show on European politics and current affairs. She is a radio documentary producer and year-long member of the board of the Danish Association for Investigative Journalism. Anne is a co-founder of Scoop and a volunteer Scoop-coordinator for Macedonia and Kosovo.
Drago Hedl
Drago Hedl is an award-winning Croatian journalist, who plays an important role in investigating and reporting war crimes in his region. He was the journalist unveiling the prominent Glavas case in Eastern Croatia. Along with colleagues from Serbian tv B92 he made a documentary including numerous witnesses and documents about the ethnic clensing in Eastern Croatia. As a cross-border cooperation in a nationalistically tense situation it was considered a very significant piece.
Jordanka Ivanovska
Jordanka Ivanovska has been a journalist at Macedonian daily newspaper Dnevnik since 2005. She previously worked for years at the daily newspaper Vest. Awards for her journalism are: first prize for the best investigate story for 2000: “People are still looking for their place under the sun” – Macedonian Institute for Media. Second prize for the best investigate story for 2002- the serial “Villa Vodno” – Macedonian Institute for Media. The highest state award “Mito Hadzi Vasilev-Jasmin” for 2003- serial “Urban mafia”-Parliament of Republic of Macedonia. Acknowlegment for serial “Cadastre” for 2006- Macedonian Institute for Media (story supported by SCOOP).
Solveig Gram Jensen
Solveig Gram Jensen, is a member of the Scoop board and the webmaster. He has been a journalist since 2004 and covered financial issues and the pharmaceutical sector at Danish daily Politiken. He covered media at Ugebrevet Mandag Morgen, an independent analysis-based weekly. He is currently studying at the University of Columbia in Paris. Coordinator for Albania and Georgia.
Vladimir Karaj
Albania
Henrik Kaufholz
Member of the board of Danish Association for Investigative Journalism, co-founder and former manager of Scoop now co-ordinator for Moldova, Ukraine, Russia and Caucasus. He has been a journalist since 1967, with Politiken since 1974. Correspondent in Bonn 1981-85, covered the Balkans from Copenhagen 1990-1995, correspondent in Moscow 1995-97 and in Berlin 1997-2002. Now ombudsmand at Politiken.
Oleg Khomenok
Oleg has been a journalist since 1992. He is experienced in print journalism, public relations, NGO management, and journalism training. He has worked for several Ukrainian newspapers and news agencies as journalist, correspondent and chief of news. From 1994 to 1997 he headed the press office of the Crimean parliament. Five years as regional correspondent for the European Institute for the Media. Joined IREX in 1997 as director of the Crimean Information and Press Center, since 2005 IREX U-Media Print Media Advisor. Certified media consultant and trainer. Author of books and manuals for journalism trainers and teachers on the methodology of teaching as well as about the history of the Crimean printed press.
Katya Labya
Katya Laba is a print media consultant and business trainer (BBC WST, WBI), executive director of the Regional Press Development Institute and a board member of the Ukrainian Media Consultants Association. She worked as an advertising manager at Halytski Kontrakty publishing house (2005), panel moderator for Media Sustainability Index (2005, 2006), printing and distribution manager for Tviy Vybir elections supplement project (2004), EU local expert for TOP Media EU-funded project in Odessa (2004), training coordinator for IREX ProMedia in 1996-2003. She is an editor, co-author and/or translator of a number media handbooks dedicated to public communications, elections coverage, newspaper management and freedom of expression.
Vlad Lavrov
Vlad Lavrov is a business editor with Ukraine’s weekly newsmagazine Korrespondent. Previously, he served as business editor at the Ukrainian weekly Novynar and as a reporter for Ukraine’s English-language weekly, Kyiv Post. He participated in several international investigative journalist projects, including “Tobacco Underground” (organised by the International Consortium of Independent Journalism) that won Investigative Reporters and Editors Tom Renner Award for detailing global organised crime in tobacco smuggling, and Overseas Press Club of America, Online Journalism Award for Best Web Coverage of International Affairs.
Other international projects included “Tobacco Roads” (organised by the Bosnian Center for Investigative Journalism), and “Transnistria – Revealing Europe’s black hole” (organised by the Danish Association of Investigative Journalism).
Dumitru Lazar
Since 2005 Dumitru Lazar has been the programme officer at the Association of Independent Press from Republic of Moldova, a leading media organisation in the Republic of Moldova and editor-in-chief of Anticorruption Publication “Obiectiv”, edited by the Association of an Independent Press and the Anticorruption Alliance.
Anastasiya Mazur
Anastasiya Mazur started working as a journalist in 2003 for the weekly newspaper “Panorama”, in Sumy, Ukraine. She mostly covers social issues like medicine, building, education, ecology etc. She has participated in training in social, ecological and investigative journalistic. In 2006 she received a grant from SCOOP for investigating corruption in state hospitals in Sumy. In 2008 she gained Bachelor Diploma in translation (English and German language). Continues studying in Sumy State University.
Xhelal Neziri
Xhelal has been a journalist since 1999. He has worked for several daily and weekly newspapers in Macedonia and Kosovo. Amongst them are “Fakti” and “Lobi”. He also worked as a correspondent in Macedonia for Kosovo’s daily newspaper “Koha ditore”, as editor of the daily “Lajm” and as analyst for the weekly newspaper in Macedonian language NedelnoVreme. He won the third prize for the best investigative story in Macedonia. At present, he is a freelance journalist and Computer Assisted Reporting (CAR) trainer in MMI in Skopje.
Maja Ilievska Pacemska
Editor for urbanism at Macedonian daily newspaper “Vest” since 2000. Awards: Second prize for the best investigate story for 2002- serial “Villa Vodno”-Macedonina Institute for Media, the highest state award “Mito Hadzi Vasilev-Jasmin” in 2003- serial “Urban mafia”-Parliament of Republic of Macedonia.
Altin Raxhimi
Altin Raxhimi is a freelance journalist based in Tirana, Albania. He has worked for local, regional and international media since the early 90s, both in print, broadcast and the web. He is relishing the freelance stage of his life.
Roman Shleynov
Novaya Gazeta, Russia
Biljana Trendafilova
Biljana Trendofilova is a Macedonian journalist, she graduated in 1999 and is currently working as editor and anchor of economic news at TV Alfa. Previously she worked for nine years at Chanel 5 tv. She is knowledgeable in foreign investment, banking and tax politics and has done research on monopolies in Macedonia and other political/economical subjects.
Avni Zogiani
Avni Zogiani is a journalist, war reporter, senior reporter, editor and columnist from Kosovo. Currently he is leading Organisation for Democracy and Anti-Corruption “Çohu”, a public benefit non profitable non governmental organisation leading the fight of the civil society against organised crime and political corruption. Established in September 2005 from a group of young scholars and journalists Çohu carried intensively activities against political corruption among which the most significant is the Coalition Civil Society for A Clean Parliament, a coalition of 10 NGOs that screened and reported the history of the MP candidates in November 2007 elections.