Organized crime and corruption reporting project
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The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) founded in 2006 is a consortium of investigative centers operating in Eastern Europe
and the Caucasus
. OCCRP is the only full-time investigative reporting organization that specializes in organized crime
and corruption. It publishes its stories through local media and in English through its website. OCCRP is an early practitioner of collaborative cross-border investigative journalism by non-profit journalism organizations, an approach that is gaining recognition in the United States and now Europe.
The project has been involved in a number of high profile investigations including looking at organized crime ownership in football clubs, casinos and the security industry. It also was a finalist for the 2010 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' Daniel Pearl
Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting, for its project on the illegal document trade. It won the 2011 Daniel Pearl
Award for its project Offshore Crime, Inc., a series of stories documenting offshore tax havens, the criminals who use them and the millions of dollars in lost tax money. It won the Global Shining Light Award for investigative reporting under duress for its series on energy traders. It partnered with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for a project on tobacco smuggling that won the Overseas Press Club Award and Investigative Reporters and Editors
's Tom Renner Award for crime reporting.
Member centers include the Center for Investigative Reporting (Bosnia and Herzegovina)(CIN) in Sarajevo, Centrul Roman Pentru Jurnalism Investigatie in Bucharest, the Centar za istrazivacko novinarstvo - Serbia in Belgrade, Investigative Journalists of Armenia (HETQ) in Yerevan, the Bulgarian Investigative Journalism Center in Sofia, Atlatszo.hu in Budapest, MANS in Montenegro, re:Baltica in Riga, SCOOP-Macedonia in Skopje and others. It is also is partnered with Novaya Gazeta
in Moscow and the Kyiv Post
in Kyiv. It has worked with the Guardian, Le Soir, the BBC, Time Magazine, and other major media.
Its parent organization is the Journalism Development Network, a Maryland-based non-profit organization which operates the organization on behalf of the member centers.
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
and the Caucasus
Caucasus
The Caucasus, also Caucas or Caucasia , is a geopolitical region at the border of Europe and Asia, and situated between the Black and the Caspian sea...
. OCCRP is the only full-time investigative reporting organization that specializes in organized crime
Organized crime
Organized crime or criminal organizations are transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit. Some criminal organizations, such as terrorist organizations, are...
and corruption. It publishes its stories through local media and in English through its website. OCCRP is an early practitioner of collaborative cross-border investigative journalism by non-profit journalism organizations, an approach that is gaining recognition in the United States and now Europe.
The project has been involved in a number of high profile investigations including looking at organized crime ownership in football clubs, casinos and the security industry. It also was a finalist for the 2010 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl was an American journalist who was kidnapped and killed by Al-Qaeda.At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl served as the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, and was based in Mumbai, India. He went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between...
Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting, for its project on the illegal document trade. It won the 2011 Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl was an American journalist who was kidnapped and killed by Al-Qaeda.At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl served as the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, and was based in Mumbai, India. He went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between...
Award for its project Offshore Crime, Inc., a series of stories documenting offshore tax havens, the criminals who use them and the millions of dollars in lost tax money. It won the Global Shining Light Award for investigative reporting under duress for its series on energy traders. It partnered with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for a project on tobacco smuggling that won the Overseas Press Club Award and Investigative Reporters and Editors
Investigative Reporters and Editors
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that focuses on the quality of investigative reporting. Formed in 1975, it presents the IRE Awards and holds conferences and training classes for journalists. Its headquarters is in Columbia, Missouri, at the University of...
's Tom Renner Award for crime reporting.
Member centers include the Center for Investigative Reporting (Bosnia and Herzegovina)(CIN) in Sarajevo, Centrul Roman Pentru Jurnalism Investigatie in Bucharest, the Centar za istrazivacko novinarstvo - Serbia in Belgrade, Investigative Journalists of Armenia (HETQ) in Yerevan, the Bulgarian Investigative Journalism Center in Sofia, Atlatszo.hu in Budapest, MANS in Montenegro, re:Baltica in Riga, SCOOP-Macedonia in Skopje and others. It is also is partnered with Novaya Gazeta
Novaya Gazeta
Novaya Gazeta is a Russian newspaper well known in the country for its critical and investigative coverage of Russian political and social affairs....
in Moscow and the Kyiv Post
Kyiv Post
The Kyiv Post is Ukraine's leading English-language newspaper.-History:The Kyiv Post was founded in September 1995 by an American, Jed Sunden. The paper covers politics, business and entertainment. The staff is a team of Western and Ukrainian journalists. Historically, the editorial policy has...
in Kyiv. It has worked with the Guardian, Le Soir, the BBC, Time Magazine, and other major media.
Its parent organization is the Journalism Development Network, a Maryland-based non-profit organization which operates the organization on behalf of the member centers.