Andras Petho, a 2020 Nieman Fellow, is a co-founder and editor of Direkt36, an investigative journalism center in Hungary. Previously, he was a senior editor for the news site Origo.
This is a strange time to be a Hungarian journalist. Working in a small Central European country, we had not been used to getting international attention. In recent years, however, we have often been approached by journalists from developed democracies, … Read more
András Pethő, a 2020 Nieman Fellow, tells a complex story on corruption within the administration of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to a general audience. I knew we were in trouble when even I could not remember details from our … Read more
Journalists have had a rough decade in Hungary under prime minister Viktor Orbán’s increasingly authoritarian rule. Now, the coronavirus crisis may make it even harder for independent news outlets to survive. The economic downturn driven by the pandemic … Read more
