András is a co-founder, editor and executive director of Direkt36. Previously, he was a senior editor for leading Hungarian news site Origo before it had been transformed into the 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. He twice won the Soma Prize, the prestigious annual award dedicated to investigative journalism in Hungary. 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.
The Curia upheld the previous verdict that forced the Prime Minister's Office to reveal the names of the hotel where Lázár stayed in Milan and Zurich. Both tr...
Public money was given to companies to make them stronger but many of them ended up in bankruptcy. A co-owner of one of these firms later was hired by the state...
The Prime Minister’s Office has to disclose where János Lázár stayed on a trip to England in November 2012, which drew attention because of high hotel bill...
In district five of Budapest, arranging a restaurant licence cost 1.5 million forints in bribes, according to the prosecutors. One of the suspects is a business...
Almost one thousand euros was spent on car rental during the two-day-long visit to Zurich of the head of the Prime Minister's Office. He says he does not rememb...
The Prime Minister's Office disclosed new details about those trips of János Lázár that drew attention because of unusually high hotel bills. Now it is known...
Profits nearly tripled for the construction company that has been awarded lucrative contracts by the 5th district while its owner keeps working in a hotel as an...
The Prime Minister's Office has been guarding closely the details of the trips which initially drew attention because of high hotel bills but a yearlong lawsuit...
Direkt36 won another lawsuit against the Prime Minister's Office over the secretive foreign trips of its chief, János Lázár. The court has ruled that the gov...
The company received most of its contracts from Budapest 5th district, during the mayoral term of prominent government politician, Antal Rogán. Direkt36's inve...