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Hello from the OCCRP newsroom,

We are delighted to announce that award-winning investigative journalist Miranda Patrucic has become OCCRP’s editor in chief. ([link removed]) She will oversee editorial operations including 50+ editors across six continents and the production of OCCRP’s investigations and content.
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Editor in Chief Miranda Patrucic Photo: Nađa Berberović-Dizdarević

Drew Sullivan steps down as OCCRP’s first editor in chief but will continue his role as publisher and leading OCCRP’s organizational direction and expansion along with Chief of Innovation Paul Radu.

Miranda was one of the first employees at OCCRP, beginning in 2006 in Sarajevo as the organization’s first fact-checker before moving on to become a researcher, reporter, trainer, and editor.
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Miranda Patrucic with Senior Writer Ilya Lozovsky in 2018.

She oversaw work in the Balkans and became known for her reporting about the authoritarian regime in Azerbaijan after her friend and investigative reporter Khadija Ismayilova was sentenced to jail there in 2015.

In 2018, Miranda turned her focus to Central Asia, creating an innovative program using in-depth reporting fellowships to partner with local journalists. In a region with little tradition of investigative journalism, she has helped publish stories from the closed countries of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, as well as from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

Miranda has worked on many investigations that have seen worldwide impact. She oversaw the award-winning Plunder and Patronage in the Heart of Central Asia ([link removed]) and The Matraimov Kingdom ([link removed]) series of stories, which led to protests that eventually brought down a government in Kyrgyzstan.
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She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and worked on the Panama Papers ([link removed]) , the Paradise Papers ([link removed]) , the FinCEN Files ([link removed]) , and the Pandora Papers ([link removed]) . She was also a key part of several global collaborations led by OCCRP, including Russian Asset Tracker ([link removed]) , Suisse Secrets ([link removed]) , and the Azerbaijani ([link removed]) and Russian Laundromats ([link removed]) .

Miranda will focus on a range of priorities for the newsroom, including ramping up investigations on environmental crime and tracking the dark money flows and foreign influence that threaten democracy, while implementing exciting new journalism formats that will allow OCCRP’s work to reach more people. A native of Bosnia and Herzegovina, she will work out of OCCRP’s Sarajevo hub and offices around the world.

Thank you for being an OCCRP reader and we hope you’re as excited as we are about this next phase of OCCRP’s expansion. We wouldn’t be OCCRP without you.
Drew Sullivan and Paul Radu
Co-Founders
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