Attila Mong

among@stanford.edu

Freelance journalist
Journalism trainer for the DW Akademie, Berlin
Investigative journalism, radio journalism trainings for Germany's
international media development agency. Assignments in Ghana,
Bangladesh.
Board member for atlatszo.hu, Budapest
an anti-corruption journalism watchdog NGO funded by the Open Society
Institute, main activities: investigating and exposing corruption, anticorruption campaigning and advocacy.
Previous posts:
2013-2014
Ashoka Storyteller-in-Residence, Berlin
hosted by Ashoka and the Berlin School of Creative Leadership, the mission is to create a
global network of journalists for social change, social innovation and social
entrepreneurship.
2012-2013
John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University
a program focused on journalistic innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership, innovation
project: creating a global collaborative database of media related laws, regulations, court
cases.
2011-2012
Editor at origo.hu, Hungary's biggest news-site
head of opinion section reporting to the editor-in-chief, managing a staff of 20-30 journalists
daily
2010-2011
Anchor, host at the Hungarian Public Radio
host of the daily morning show, in 2010 public protest against the repressive media law by
holding one minute of silence in the live program.
2000-2009
Daily political talk-show host of private news-radio Inforadio, host of the evening interview
show
2005-2007
Editor-in-chief of Manager Magazine, a Der Spiegel-owned business monthly
editorial and content management, reporting to general management, rebranding the
magazine as a leading investigative journalism focused outlet
1999-2004
Senior editor at Figyelo, business weekly
1995-2000
Editor-reporter at Hungarian Public Radio and TV
Studies:
2012-2013
1992
1991

Stanford University
Management Programme Copernic, Paris (French state scholarship)
College for Foreign Trade, Budapest

Awards, fellowships
2011 Hoover Visiting Research Fellow, United States
2008 Marshall Memorial Fellow, United States
2004 Pulitzer Memorial Prize Investigative Journalism Category, Hungary
2003 Soma Investigative Journalism Prize, Hungary
Books
2012 Kadar's credit
an investigation on the impact of debt on Hungarian politics between 1956 and 1990, relations with
the IMF, economic policy making
2010 The Age of Innocents
an investigation on how the Hungarian justice system handled the most important white-collar crime
cases
2009 John the Hussar goes to the Gulag
a historic investigation of a 1946 conflict between Hungarian peasants and Soviet soldiers
2009 Investigative Journalism Handbook
Languages
English fluent, French fluent, German intermediate, Russian basic, Greek basic, Hungarian - native
Twitter: @attilamong

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