Speakers

Tamás Bodoky

Editor-in-chief, Átlátszó

Tamás Richárd Bodoky is an investigative journalist and editor, and nonprofit executive based in Budapest, Hungary.

Bodoky has been a journalist since 1996: before joining Index.hu, where he spent 9 years in different journalistic and editorial positions, he was science and technology journalist at the Magyar Narancs weekly paper.

Bodoky has won the Gőbölyös Soma Prize for investigative journalism in 2008 for his articles on Hungary's 2006 unrest and police brutality. Bodoky has won the Iustitia Regnorum Fundamentum and the Hungarian Pulitzer Memorial Prize for his investigative articles and freedom of information lawsuits on high level political corruption cases.

In 2011, Bodoky co-founded the first Hungarian center for investigative journalism, Átlátszó (atlatszo.hu), which he has continued to manage as editor-in-chief ever since. „Atlatszo” means transparent in Hungarian, the nonprofit organisation employs journalists, produces investigative reports, and maintains an online freedom of information request service for the general public.