The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is among winners of Knight News Challenge with a plan to map Internet ownership across Eastern Europe.

The online newspaper “Kyiv Post” is one of seven winners of the 2014 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, given by faculty of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism.

The online newspaper “Hetq” has won the Media Excellence award at the 2014 Universal Human Rights Awards ceremony, which took place Thursday at the Congress Hotel in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan.

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For the third year in a row, OCCRP partner Studio Monitori has been awarded the Josh Friedman Prize for the best investigative journalism story in the Republic of Georgia.

OCCRP is deeply disappointed in the Government of Montenegro’s latest ill treatment of anti-corruption activists in Montenegro. 

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) Balkans regional editor Miranda Patrucic will take part in a session tomorrow on data journalism under the International Summit of Journalism program of the Astana Economic Forum via Skype.

The Global Editors Network (GEN) released a short list of 75 finalists for the Data Journalism Awards during Wednesday’s Big Data for Media Conference, hosted by Reuters Institute in London.

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YanukovychLeaks has received the “Best of Online Activism” (The Bobs) award from German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, in the “Reporters Without Borders” category.

The 10th annual award recognizes online activism and “efforts made to protect freedom of expression not just for the media, but also for individuals around the world.”

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) executive director Paul Radu and lead investigative reporter Miranda Patrucic presented workshops at the April 30-May 5 International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy.

Reporters Without Borders, a non-profit organization (NGO) focusing on freedom of expression and information, has featured Assen Yordanov and Khadija Ismayilova on their “100 Information Heroes” list.

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) reporters Miranda Patrucic, Paul Radu, and Rosemary Armao conducted trainings at an April 21-23 seminar for the first graduating class of investigative journalism students at Tunisia's Institute of Press and Information Sciences (Institut de Presse et des Sciences de l’Information, IPSI)