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.

We need to work with organizations like the Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism more than ever, to ensure that deep-dig journalism survives. The mainstream media is undergoing dramatic change and it is up to us all to help preserve the best parts.

Gerard Ryle, Director of International Consortium for Investigative Journalism

The Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism does, what needs to be done: its journalists investigate thoroughly, they are courageous, they are committed, they know their journalistic methods apply them skillfully. They manage to unveil corruption as well as trafficking, they analyse businesses as sharply as they produce moving social reportage.

Brigitte Alfter, Director of Journalismfund.eu, a support structure for investigative journalism in Europe

Stefan Candea is one of the preeminent investigative journalists in the world and one of the earliest pioneers in the nonprofit journalism ecosystem. And the Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism is one of the most intrepid, fearless news organizations anywhere. Bravo and thank you for your astonishing courage and steadfast pursuit of the truth!

Charles Lewis, Executive Editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop, USA, and founder of the Center for Public Integrity and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

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

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

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

Magical photos of the Black Sea.

James Estrin, The New York Times