Attila Mong
Journalist, CPJ
Attila Mong is a Hungarian journalist based in Berlin. He is the Europe representative of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a global press freedom organization. He also advises DW Akademie on digital innovation projects and serves on the supervisory board of atlatszo.hu, a crowdfunded investigative journalism platform in Hungary. In 2010, while hosting Hungarian public radio’s morning news programme, he observed a minute of silence on air to protest the Orbán government’s media law—an early step in the systematic takeover of Hungary’s media by the government and its allies. He left Hungary in 2011 and completed a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University before settling in Berlin in 2013. His reporting has earned two of Hungary’s most prestigious journalism awards: the Pulitzer Memorial Prize for Best Investigative Journalism (2004) and the Soma Investigative Journalism Prize (2003).
