Skills:

Research, photo journalism, fixing, native English editing & translation, code laboratory, information design, illustration, sound, video.

Areas of Reporting:

We cover the Black Sea Region through our investigations as well as through TheBlackSea.eu, our online magazine. We experiment through TheSponge.eu, our open media laboratory.

Outlets that have featured our work:

The Guardian, NY Times, Boston Globe, Reuters, Toronto Star, ABC, CBC (CA), BBC, Channel 4 (UK), ITV (UK), ZDF (DE), ARD (DE), NRD (DE), Canal+, Vedomosti, Novaya Gazeta (RU), Kyiv Post, Interview (ES), Deutsche Welle, Sat 1 (DE), Die Zeit (DE), Sueddeutsche Zeitung (DE), Panos Pictures (UK), ICIJ, Politiken (DK), Le Soir (BE), Nieman Reports, L’Espresso (IT), Spiegel TV (DE), BIRN, OCCRP, Scoop, Eu Observer, Radio Free Europe, 24chasa (BG), Center for Investigative Reporting (HR), HETQ (AM), Rustavi TV (GE), Ta Nea (GR), Berliner Gazette (DE), Sunday Times (UK).

Services and Solutions:

Story Production Assistance

Translation, breaking news reporting, photo, video, multi-media work.

Research:

Governemnt, database manipulation, Customized reporting.

Fee-Based Investigations:

Investigations on per-story basis, subscription service for yearly stories.

Awards

In 2014 we were shortlisted for the Innovation Award at the Euwopean Press Prize.

We are part of the team winning a few awards on the ICIJ "Offshore Leaks" project: IRE and Scripps Howard.

Our members also won in the past: IRE Tom Renner, Overseas Press Club, Daniel Pearl Award, Global Shining Light Award.

Fellowships: Nieman Fellowship at Harvard and Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford.

I was working with the Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism over the “Offshore leaks” that was initiated by Washington based ICIJ. I was impressed by professionalism and competence of Romanian Center and especially by the ability to work operative with massive information databases keeping the sources of that information under protection with the help of the most modern techniques. The Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism is connected to news makers and sources all over the world, and even if they miss some countries – they compensate by cooperation with the best local investigative reporters.

Roman Schelynov, Investigative Reporter at Vedomosti, Russia

Are you an investigative journalist and do you want to find details necessary to develop your story in Romania? Get in touch with the Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism. You’ll seize the opportunity to build the background and the core of your investigation thanks to talented and skillful journalists who can help you out. In the center you’ll come across reporters who worked undercover in some of the best investigations carried out by the prestigious Washington‑based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

Leo Sisti, L’Espresso, Italy

I worked with Stefan and the CRJI on topics as difficult and complex as cigarettes smuggling, black sites for torture and detention, the offshoring of organized crime operations. During all those years, breaking the news in Brussels in partnership with our Romanian colleagues, I’ve been astonished by the quality and legal reliability of the evidence collected: covert video footage, classified docs, financial docs, you name it. On more than a decade of cooperation and hard hitting revelations, we never lost any legal action.

Alain Lallemand, Senior Investigative Reporter, Le Soir, Belgium

As investigative reporters covering issues like international financial crime and corruption myself and my colleagues in our team at Swedish Television constantly rely on international colleagues for help and interpretation of foreign matters. Our friends at CRJI are some of the most trusted colleagues we have worked with, the investigation into “Offshore‑leaks” possibly being the most prominent. CRJI have an extreme journalistic access and knowledge about some of the most troubled parts of Europe and provide vital help for us and other reporters. I can only congratulate any colleagues who manages to set up a cooperation with CRJI.

Fredrik Laurin, freelance investigative reporter for Uppdrag granskning, the current affairs program of Swedish public service Television

CRJI and its director Stefan Candea are a vital ray of light in Eastern Europe. In a region mired in corruption and media manipulation, they work to keep alive a genuinely professional standard of investigative journalism.

David Leigh, Investigations Editor, The Guardian, UK, 2000–2013, founder member ICIJ

CRJI has produced some of the finest and smartest investigative journalists currently working in Europe.

Duncan Campbell, UK, ICIJ, investigative journalist, author specialized in privacy, civil liberties and surveillance issues

There is no more important role for journalism today than investigative reporting and the duty of investigative journalists to dig out information the powerful want kept secret and enlightening citizens around the world so that they may act in the interest of freedom. The Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism demonstrates research and investigative skills that merit your support in carrying forth its essential investigative mission.

Bob Giles, Curator 2000–2011 at Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Global Post Commentary Editor

The best known figures – quoted by the international press for years – about child slavery in Romania come from an investigation done by the Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism with financial support from Scoop. When it comes to facts, contact that centre!

Henrik Kaufholz, reporter at Politiklen, Denmark, and coordinator of Scoop since 2003