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UNCOVERED Conference 2026

Told Not to. Reported Anyway

Budapest, Hungary
Sep 17 - Sep 18, 2026

Session Details

Type Panel Discussion
Date September 17, 2026
Time 11:30 - 12:30
Venue Main Room

Four journalists, four countries, one shared experience: being told, in no uncertain terms, to back off.

Reporters from Turkey, Hungary, Albania, and Azerbaijan share the investigations they published despite government pressure, legal threats, and worse — one of them still reporting on their home country from exile in Europe, unable to return.

This is a session about the choice to keep going: what it costs, what it takes, and why they did it anyway. Come ready to be a little unsettled and a lot inspired.

Moderator

Amy Brouillette

Director of Advocacy

International Press Institute

Speakers

Aleksandra Bogdani

Speaker

Investigative journalist

BIRN Albania

Doğu Eroğlu

Speaker

Journalist

Ortak

Szabolcs Panyi

Speaker

Investigative Journalist

VSquare.org