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Sarah Clarke joined ARTICLE 19 in January 2019 as Head of the Europe and Central Asia team, defending the human rights to freedom of expression and information in the region. Between 2012 and 2018, she led PEN International’s policy and advocacy work, overseeing its engagement with the UN and regional human rights mechanisms and governments.… Continue reading Sarah Clarke

Charlie Holt works as legal counsel for campaigns at Greenpeace International, where he leads the organisation’s SLAPP resilience strategy. Until 2019 his work focused on the US, where he worked on two aggressive large-scale SLAPPs targeting Greenpeace and helped set up the anti-SLAPP coalition Protect the Protest. He is now working on building SLAPP resilience… Continue reading Charlie Holt

Nico Schmidt is part of the European journalistic team “Investigate Europe.” As an investigative reporter, he has lately dug into the failed state of military integration in the EU as well as the effects of the little known Energy Charter Treaty on the EU’s ambitions to phase out fossil fuels. For this work he was… Continue reading Nico Schmidt

Jochen Spangenberg is Deputy Head of Research and Cooperation Projects at Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle. The topical focus of his work over the past decade has been on social newsgathering, analysis, and verification of digital content, and relating all these to news reporting. He led the research projects REVEAL, InVID, and WeVerify for DW.… Continue reading Jochen Spangenberg

Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck is the founder and Executive Director of Lie Detectors, an award-winning organisation that works with more than 250 professional journalists to promote critical media literacy among schoolchildren and teachers. She directs Lie Detectors’ development and strategy and designed its concept and training approach. Juliane advises the European Union institutions, including within the EU… Continue reading Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck

Sanita Jemberga is editor in the Baltic Center of Investigative Journalism “Re:Baltica,” which is based in Riga but works across the Baltics and beyond (mostly in ex-USSR countries but also on OCCRP and ICIJ investigations). Re:Baltica is a non-profit, which produces journalism in public interest in Latvian, English, and Russian since 2011. Sanita was lead… Continue reading Sanita Jemberga

Roman Dobrokhotov was born 1983 in Moscow, graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and has a PhD in political science. He started to work as a journalist in 2005. In 2013, he founded the online internet magazine The Insider focusing on investigations and debunking of fake news. The Insider won many international awards… Continue reading Roman Dobrokhotov

Anna Babinets is the editor-in-chief of SLIDSTVO.INFO investigative agency based in Kyiv, Ukraine and a regional editor of Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).As a journalist Anna specialises in discovering high scale corruption, money laundering schemes, and crimes. She is part of the Panama Papers team. Several stories about Ukrainian president`s Petro Poroshenko offshore… Continue reading Anna Babinets