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 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

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

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

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

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 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