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Djordje Padejski is the Associate Director at Stanford University's JSK Fellowships, where he mentors fellows and alumni pursuing innovative projects, and focuses on computational journalism. He is an international award-winning investigative journalist and editor, member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and ICIJ's Offshore Leaks investigation. He spent most of his journalism career working on investigating government corruption and organized crime. Padejski is teaching investigative and data journalism, data analysis and research, use of public records, and he is a contributor to the Data Journalism Handbook. He was the founding director of FOIA Machine, a public record platform hosted by the Center for Investigative Reporting, now by Muckrock Foundation. He conceptualized FOIA Machine as a 2012 Knight Fellow at Stanford. Padejski entered journalism as a student during the Milosevic regime in Serbia, and has become one of the leading investigative journalists since. His stories about organized crime in 2005, earned him the Serbian Award for Investigative Reporting. In 2006, he co-founded the Center for Investigative Reporting in Serbia, and served as founding director, conducting trainings and overseeing award-winning projects on government corruption. In 2008, he joined OCCRP to work on cross-border investigative projects in the Balkans. |