András is a co-founder, editor and executive director of Direkt36. Previously, he was a senior editor for leading Hungarian news site Origo before it had been transformed into the government’s propaganda outlet. He also worked for the BBC World Service in London and was a reporter at the investigative unit of The Washington Post. He has contributed to several international reporting projects, including The Panama Papers. He twice won the Soma Prize, the prestigious annual award dedicated to investigative journalism in Hungary. He was a World Press Institute fellow in 2008, a Humphrey fellow at the University of Maryland in 2012/13, and a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2019/20. András has taught journalism courses at Hungarian universities.
A Direkt36 investigation has revealed that the companies of the family of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán have been involved in several public projects....
Last November, we published a behind-the-scenes account of the closure of Népszabadság, Hungary's biggest daily newspaper. András Pethő, who led the reporti...
The Panama Papers project had huge impact around the world but the Hungarian authorities appear to have done little so far to look into the local findings....
How the news industry’s crisis, the power games of influential businessmen, and the politically motivated redrawing of Hungary’s media landscape led to the...
The leaked files contain data on more than 175 thousand companies registered in The Bahamas. The records exposed the hidden offshore connection of a former EU c...