Hanne Phlypo is a producer from Belgium, with years of experience as a location hunter, production manager and assistant director. She is the co-founder of the production company Clin d'oeil films with Antoine Vermeesch. The company focuses on creative documentaries and author-driven films with a preference for films with a social or political statement by innovative filmmakers.

Éva Bognár is Senior Program Officer and Researcher at the Center for Media, Data and Society at Central European University. Éva has been with the Center since 2006. Since then, she has been managing projects (including projects on Violent Online Political Extremism, Media Pluralism, Press and Media Freedom, Hungarian Media Laws in Europe, Hungarian Media Ownership, and the Business of Misinformation) and events (public lectures, workshops, conferences and the annual summer school) for the Center. Éva is the Hungarian contributor to the Digital News Report, a major comparative project from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. Recently she has been studying Hungarian minorities and their use of online space; and media representation of migration. Her background is in sociology.

Zselyke Csaky is the Research Director for Europe and Eurasia and works on Nations in Transit, Freedom House’s annual survey of democracy from Central Europe to Central Asia. Her research interests focus primarily on the politics of Central Europe and media freedoms more generally. She has written extensively on democratic governance in Central Europe and the Balkans and co-hosts In Between Europe, a podcast focusing on the region. Her comments and writings have appeared in Foreign Policy, Politico Europe, the New York Times, BBC World News, and Al Jazeera, among others. Prior to joining Freedom House, she served as researcher in different capacities at Amnesty International, the International Service for Human Rights, and the European Parliament. She holds master’s degrees in International Relations and in Human Rights.

Dr. Tamás Richárd Bodoky is an investigative journalist and editor, and nonprofit executive based in Budapest, Hungary. Bodoky has been a journalist since 1996: before joining Index.hu, where he spent 9 years in different journalistic and editorial positions, he was science and technology journalist at the Magyar Narancs weekly paper. Bodoky has won the Gőbölyös Soma Prize for investigative journalism in 2008 for his articles on Hungary's 2006 unrest and police brutality. Bodoky has won the Iustitia Regnorum Fundamentum and the Hungarian Pulitzer Memorial Prize for his investigative articles and freedom of information lawsuits on high level political corruption cases. Bodoky is Marshall Memorial Fellowship alumni, and member of international investigative journalism networks. In 2011 Bodoky co-founded hungarian watchdog NGO and investigative journalism center atlatszo.hu, where he works as investigative journalist, editor, and director.