Jury

The jury consists of data journalism experts and editors from all over the world who have gained significant professional experience in using data to improve reporting. The jury is headed by Paul Steiger, founder of ProPublica.

The jury has been appointed by the Global Editors Network. Particular attention was paid when gathering representatives from all regions of the world and ensuring that the expertise of the jury as a whole covers all three areas of application of data journalism represented in the prize categories.

President of the Jury:

Paul Steiger	ProPublica	USA
	Paul Steiger is Editor-in-Chief, President and CEO of ProPublica, the non-profit investigative newsroom based in New York. In 2008, ProPublica pioneered a new model for investigative journalism, producing stories for the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NPR and many others, on topics including police corruption, the financial bailout, natural gas drilling and private military contractors. In 2010, a ProPublica reporter received a Pulitzer Prize. Prior to ProPublica, Steiger was the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal from 1991 until May 2007. Under his leadership, the Wall Street Journal’s reporters and editors won 16 Pulitzer Prizes. Steiger is also Chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists and a trustee of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. In 2008, he received the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

Justin Arenstein	African News Innovation Challenge	South Africa
	Justin Arenstein is Publisher and CEO of African Eye News Service (AENS) and HomeGrown Magazines in Nelspruit, South Africa. He holds a Knight International Journalism Fellowship and has recently been appointed project manager of the African News Innovation Challenge, a competition which awards 1 million USD in start-up grants to African news organisations. Arenstein is on the Boards of the Press Council of South Africa, the Open Democracy Advice Center and a number of other media industry bodies.
Peter Barron	Google	UK
	Peter Barron has been Google’s Director for External Relations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa since January 2011. He joined Google in 2008 and was previously Director of Communications and Public Affairs for North and Central Europe. Before joining Google, Barron was Editor of BBC TV’s ‘Newsnight programme’ from 2004 until 2008 and worked in TV news and Current Affairs at the BBC, iTV and Channel 4 for nearly twenty years.
Wolfgang Blau	Guardian	UK
	Before taking the position of Director of Digital Strategy at The Guardian, Wolfgang was the former Editor-in-Chief of Zeit Online, the sister publication of Germany’s newspaper Die Zeit. From 1999 to 2007, he worked in Silicon Valley, in San Francisco and Washington D.C. as a freelance reporter for Germany’s broadcaster ZDF, the German newspaper Die Welt and the radio news syndicator BLR-Radiodienst. In the three years since Blau joined Zeit Online, the website has been repositioned and its unique visitors have grown by more than 270 percent. In 2011, Zeit Online won Germany’s Grimme Online Award, two Lead Awards in gold and became the first German newsroom ever to win the Online Journalism Award of the American Online News Association, ONA.
Liliana Bounegru	European Journalism Center Romania
	Liliana Bounegru is editor of DataDrivenJournalism.net and project manager on data journalism at the European Journalism Centre. Her work at the EJC includes coordinating and coediting The Data Journalism Handbook and running conferences and workshops. Liliana is also conducting research in the Media Studies department at the University of Amsterdam.
Reginald Chua	Thomson Reuters	Hong Kong
	Reginald Chua is Editor of Data and Innovation at Thomson Reuters, where he leads development of Reuters’ computer-assisted reporting and newsroom technology capabilities. Before joining Reuters in April 2011, Chua was Editor-in-Chief of the South China Morning Post. He began a 16-year career at the Wall Street Journal as a correspondent in Manila, opened the paper’s Hanoi bureau, was the longest-serving editor of its Asian edition and then moved to New York, where he served as Deputy Managing Editor. A native of Singapore, Chua graduated with a Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Chicago.
Frederic Filloux	Les Echos	France
	Frédéric Filloux is a freelance writer and a media consultant. He is a regular contributor to Slate.fr and teaches Multimedia Journalism at the Sciences Po School of Journalism in Paris. Until recently Filloux worked as Editor for the international division of the Norwegian media group, Schibsted ASA. In 2002, he was part of the team who launched the free daily, 20 Minutes, in France. Prior to that, he worked for 12 years at Liberation, successively as Business Reporter, New York Correspondent, Editor of the multimedia section, Manager of Online Operations and, finally, Editor of the paper.
Joshua Hatch	The Chronicle of Higher Education	USA
	Joshua Hatch is the Senior Editor for Data and Interactives at The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he leads a team of designers, developers and reporters, and a member of the board of directors of the Online News Association. Before joining The Chronicle, Hatch was at the Sunlight Foundation and was Interactives Director at USA TODAY. Hatch teaches data journalism and interactive multimedia at American University, where he received his Master's degree in News Media Studies, and is the chair of the Online Journalism Awards.
Aron Pilhofer	The New York Times	USA
	Aron Pilhofer is Editor of ‘Interactive News’ at the New York Times. His team blends journalism and technology to enhance the Times’ reporting online through social media, community and dynamic, data-driven Web applications. He is also the co-founder of two news-related nonprofit organisations: DocumentCloud.org and Hacks and Hackers. Pilhofer joined the Times in 2005 as a projects editor on the paper’s newly expanded computer-assisted reporting team. Prior to joining the Times, Pilhofer reported for the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, Gannett newspapers in New Jersey and Delaware and was on the national training staff of Investigative Reporters and Editors.
Paul Radu	Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project	Romania
	Paul Radu is Executive Director of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and Co-creator of the Investigative Dashboard Concept. He has held a number of fellowships including the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship in 2001, the Milena Jesenska Press Fellowship in 2002, the Rosalyn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism in 2007, the 2008 Knight International Journalism fellowship with the International Center for Journalists as well as a 2009-2010 Stanford Knight Journalism Fellowship. Radu is the recipient of numerous awards including the Knight International Journalism Award and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award in 2004, the Global Shining Light Award, the Tom Renner Investigative Reporters and Editors Award in 2007 and the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting in 2011.
Simon Rogers	The Guardian United Kingdom
	Simon Rogers is editor of the Guardian's DataBlog, an online data resource which publishes hundreds of raw datasets and encourages its users to visualise and analyse them. He is also a news editor on the Guardian, working with the graphics team to visualise and interpret huge datasets. He was closely involved in the Guardian's exercise to crowdsource 450,000 MP expenses records and the organisation's coverage of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wikileaks war logs. He was also a key part of the Reading the Riots team which investigated the causes of the 2011 England disturbances. He has edited two Guardian books: How Slow Can You Waterski and The Hutton Inquiry and its impact. In 2012, Simon received the Royal Statistical Societyʼs award for statistical excellence in journalism (online category).
Gianina Segnini	La Nacion	Costa-Rica
	Giannina Segnini is Director of the Investigative Unit at the daily, La Nación, in Costa Rica. Her team of journalists and developers are working on a very unique model of database journalism. Segnini studied journalism at the University of Costa Rica and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She has trained hundreds of journalists on computer assisted reporting and has won honors such as the Ortega y Gasset Prize: the Best Journalistic Investigation (TILAC) and a special mention in the Maria Moors Cabot awards.

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