
András Pethő
András is the co-founder, editor and executive director of Direkt36. Previously, he was a senior editor for the leading Hungarian news site Origo, before it was transformed into the Orbán government’s propaganda outlet. He also worked for the BBC World Service in London and was a reporter at the investigative unit of The Washington Post. He has contributed to several international reporting projects, including The Panama Papers and the Pegasus Project. He has played a leading role in the production of Direkt36’s documentaries, including The Dynasty, the award-winning film on the business empire of Viktor Orbán’s family. He has won the Soma Prize, the annual award dedicated to investigative journalism in Hungary, three times. He was a World Press Institute fellow in 2008, a Humphrey fellow at the University of Maryland in 2012/13, and a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2019/20. András has taught journalism courses at Hungarian universities.