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Summer School on Investigative Reporting
Speakers 2023

Nils Hanson

Sweden

Nils Hanson

Sweden

Award-winning investigative editor and reporter. For 14 years, until 2018, Nils was an executive producer for Mission Investigate, Swedish Television (SVT). He has more than 30 years of experience and has covered around 500 investigations. During the last two years of his leadership, the program won ten international awards. One story, with him as an editor, Deceptive Diplomacy – Cover-up by the UN, won in 2019 both the IRE and Emmy Awards. His handbook on investigative journalism has become a classic in Sweden. Today he continues working as a freelancing editor and reporter besides doing lectures on investigative journalism in Sweden and many other countries.

Miranda Patrucic

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Miranda Patrucic

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Based in Sarajevo, Miranda Patrucic is an award winning investigative reporter and regional editor for OCCRP focusing on Central Asia, the Balkans and the Caucasus. Highlights of her work include exposing billions in bribes in Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, uncovering hidden assets of Azerbaijani, Montenegrin and Central Asian ruling elites. She collaborated with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on a project involving tobacco smuggling, the US$ 4 billion black market in endangered bluefin tuna, Swiss Leaks and Panama Papers and Paradise Papers. She is the recipient of the Knight International Journalism Award, the Global Shining Light Award, the IRE Tom Renner Award, the Daniel Pearl Award and the European Press Prize. She is much in demand worldwide for training journalists on how to investigate and uncover corruption, money laundering and how to follow the money. Earlier this year, Miranda was appointed editor-in-chief of the OCCRP.

Henk van Ess

Netherlands

Henk van Ess

Netherlands

Dutch-born Henk runs workshops and presentations worldwide, helping journalists find new strategies for optimizing online searches. He is one of the most sought-after lecturers in investigative journalism. Pulitzer-prize winners from The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post have worked with Henk.

Haley Willis

USA

Haley Willis

USA

Haley Willis is a reporter with the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times, which combines traditional reporting with digital and open-source methods to break news and hold the powerful to account. She has covered police brutality in Hong Kong and India, humanitarian crises in Syria and Mozambique, and forced labor in China. She co-produced “Caught on Camera, Traced by Phone: The Russian Military Unit That Killed Dozens in Bucha,” the most complete picture to date of the Russian atrocities carried out in Bucha, Ukraine. Haley has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes for her coverage of police killings at traffic stops and civilian casualties resulting from the U.S. air war in the Middle East.

Martin Laine

Estonia

Martin Laine

Estonia

Martin Laine is an Estonian investigative journalist and an avid researcher who covers mostly Russia, corruption, extremism and disinformation. This year he was elected Young Journalist Of The Year by Estonian Newspaper Association and won the Bonnier Prize - the most prestigious investigative journalism award in Estonia. He was awarded Estonian Anti-Corruption Action of The Year in 2019 by Transparency International for his important contribution to raising the topic of whistleblower protection in Estonian society.

Yanina Kornienko

Ukraine

Yanina Kornienko

Ukraine

Yanina Kornienko is a Ukrainian journalist working for the Slidstvo.info project. Since 2016, she has been involved in investigations, focusing primarily on international topics. Yanina has collaborated with colleagues from the OCCRP and contributed to several international projects. Before this, she was a researcher for the Investigative Dashboard, a service established by the international investigative network OCCRP. After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Yanina began investigating war crimes. Her work has included studying the situation in occupied cities, the deportation process of individuals from Mariupol to Russia (including children), cases of journalists being kidnapped in the occupied territories, and the identification of Russian war criminals.

Holger Roonemaa

Estonia

Holger Roonemaa

Estonia

Holger Roonemaa is an investigative journalist based in Tallinn, Estonia. He has extensively covered issues relating to money laundering, corruption and sanctions evading, as well as topics related to national security, espionage and propaganda. Roonemaa is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. His investigations have also been published in OCCRP, The Daily Beast, Newlines Magazine and several publications across Europe. He has been awarded the "Journalist of the Year" title in Estonia two years in a row. Last year he also won the national Bonnier investigative journalism award. Roonemaa works for Ekspress Meedia (publications Delfi Estonia, Eesti Ekspress, Eesti Päevaleht)

Marja Grill

Sweden

Marja Grill

Sweden

Marja Grill is a staff reporter with the Investigative Team at SVT News. She has produced several documentaries and done in-depth, long-term investigations, primarily focused on social issues and children’s wellbeing and protection.  Grill has won Sweden’s most prestigious investigative journalism award for “Sofie’s Case” and has been nominated for several international prizes such as European Press Prize (2021), LA Docs Best Investigative Short (2022), PRIX Europas Best European Journalist (2018) and Dig Awards (2020, 2019, 2017). “To me, quality journalism is reporting that changes things. Changes lives, laws, views or someone's point of view. Investigations or inside stories that enrich our understanding of how society works”, says Marja Grill.

Helena Bengtsson

Sweden

Helena Bengtsson

Sweden

Helena Bengtsson is Data Journalism Editor at Gota Media, a regional publishing company in the south of Sweden with 14 local titles. She previously worked as Editor for Data Journalism at SVT, Sweden’s national television broadcaster for 27 years and she also served as Editor, Data Projects of the Guardian, UK, between 2014-2017. In 2006 and 2007, she was Database Editor at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. She was awarded the Stora Journalistpriset (The Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism) in Sweden twice, in 2010 and in 2016 for innovator of the year.

Mattias Carlsson

Sweden

Mattias Carlsson

Sweden

Mattias Carlsson is a staff investigative reporter at the Swedish newspaper Expressen, based in Stockholm. Worked for over 20 years at Sweden's leading newspapers in various positions. Started as a press photographer and lived and worked as a freelancer in Moscow, Russia, during the 1990's. Since joining Expressen in January 2022, he has had a special focus on international investigations and collaborations.

Tom Heinemann

Denmark

Tom Heinemann

Denmark

Tom Heinemann has investigated labor abuses and environmental issues in global supply chains for over 25 years. He is a multiple-award winning journalist and has broadcasted TV documentaries across Europe based on his investigations. He has written and co-authored several books and reports and has co-directed several other investigative TV documentaries. Tom Heinemann has produced more than 20 radio documentaries broadcast to Danish radio P1. Including “The Great Experiment” (on Monsanto), “The real slaves of Fashion” (on slave labor hired to produce clothes for Tommy Hilfiger, GAP, and others), and you can find it all on his website www.tomheinemann.dk

Jan Strozyk

Germany

Jan Strozyk

Germany

Based in Germany, Jan Strozyk joined OCCRP in 2021 as data editor before becoming chief data editor in 2022. Jan co-leads OCCRP’s research and data team alongside Head of Research Karina Shedrofsky. He works closely with our editorial and the data teams, coordinating data analysis and working on data-driven investigations. Prior to joining OCCRP, Jan was a reporter with the German public news broadcaster NDR, where he worked on the Luxembourg Leaks, the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers, the FinCEN Files, and other cross-border investigations. Jan’s work was honored with the Deutscher Fernsehpreis, the most renowned German prize for television journalists. German Medium Magazin named him one of Germany’s “Top 30 under 30” journalists and a member of the “Newsroom of the Year.”

Peter Jones

United Kingdom

Peter Jones

United Kingdom

Based in the U.K., Peter Jones joined OCCRP in 2021 and is the deputy editor in chief for investigations. He oversees reporters working on complex long-term investigations into corruption, organized crime, and financial fraud. Prior to joining OCCRP, Peter was a freelancer in Central Africa, primarily writing news and features for the Guardian. Previously, Peter was the Democratic Republic of Congo correspondent for Reuters, covering a major insurgency in the east of the country as well as mining corruption and political news. He also spent five years at Global Witness leading corruption investigations. He has an undergraduate degree from Oxford University and a master’s degree from University College London.

Šarūnas Černiauskas

Lithuania

Šarūnas Černiauskas

Lithuania

Šarūnas Černiauskas joined OCCRP in 2015 and is a regional editor for the Baltics. He leads Siena.lt, the first Lithuanian non-profit organization dedicated entirely to investigative reporting and an OCCRP member centre. He has contributed to numerous investigations, including the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers. He was a key contributor to the Troika Laundromat investigation, which won the Sigma Data Journalism Award in 2020. With an international team, he also investigated the misuse of EU funds by members of the European Parliament and was shortlisted for the European Press Prize in 2017. Šarūnas has received several national awards and became the first laureate of the Investigative Journalism Prize established by the Vilnius University, awarded for his efforts to revive investigative journalism in Lithuania.

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