Hungarian investigative journalism gets boost from IJ4EU grants
(World News Austria)

From Hungarian taxpayers` money spent on neighbouring countries football clubs to Russian spies operating in Hungary, the inaugural round of the IJ4EU grants, which support cross-border investigative journalism in the EU, funded many Hungarian journalistic projects in 2018. The International Press Institute (IPI) talked to the journalists who did the leg work, and their insights revealed the specific difficulties they had to face and the hurdles that journalists, and investigative journalists in particular, are up against when working in Hungary. Szabolcs Panyi, who works for Direkt36, an investigative journalism center, was part of a multi-country project reporting on the creeping shadow of...