Anna Babinets

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Anna Babinets
At the International Journalism Festival in 2017
Born (1984-06-12) 12 June 1984 (age 41)
Dnipro, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
EducationOles Honchar Dnipro National University
OccupationJournalist
AwardsCourage in Journalism Award (2019)

Anna Volodymyrivna Babinets (Ukrainian: Анна Володимирівна Бабінець; born 12 June 1984) is a Ukrainian investigative journalist. She is the head of the independent investigative agency Slidstvo.info, a regional editor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, and a member of YanukovychLeaks.

Biography

Babinets was born in Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. She studied at Oles Honchar Dnipro National University.[1]

After graduating, Babinets worked for a variety of media outlets, including the magazine The Ukrainian Week, the television show Znak oklyku on TVi, the online outlets Hromadske, Ukrainska Pravda, LB.ua and Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, and the newspaper the Kyiv Post.[2][3]

In 2012, Babinets co-created with Dmytro Hnap the independent investigative project Slidstvo.info.[4] In February 2014, she co-launced YanukovychLeaks, in which more than 25, 000 documents were published concerning the former President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, and his entourage. The documents were also shared with the Office of the Attorney General.[5] Babinets herself published multiple reports on Yanukovych's associate, businessman Serhiy Kurchenko, and produced a documentary about YanukovychLeaks entitled Newsroom Mezhyhirya: The Story of Yanukovych Leaks (Ukrainian: Ньюзрум Межигір'я: Історія YanukovychLeaks, romanized: Nyuzrum Mezhihirya: Istoriya YanukovychLeaks).[6][7][8][9]

In 2015, Babinets became the regional editor of the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.[10]

In 2017, Babinets and Vlad Lavrov were among 300 reporters who collaborated with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to report on the Panama Papers that exposed the hidden infrastructure and global scale of offshore tax havens; Babinets and Lavrov contributed 2016 reports on the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko's involvement in the scandal. The report received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.[11][12][13]

In 2017, Babinets, alongside Lavrov, Hnap and Olga Loginova, produced the investigative documentary Killing Pavel (Ukrainian: Вбивство Павла, romanized: Vbystvo Pavla) about the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet.[14] It was awarded the 2017 Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for Investigative Reporting.[15]

In 2019, Babinets received the International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism Award for her investigative journalism.[16]

References

  1. ↑ "Дніпровський національний університет імені Олеся Гончара : Журналістське розслідування: чому це важливо?". Oles Honchar Dnipro National University (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 7 September 2025. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  2. ↑ "Бюро «Свідомо» обрало пріоритетною темою оборону й запросило курувати її Анну Бабінець". TeleKrytyka (in Ukrainian). 5 August 2009. Archived from the original on 10 March 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  3. ↑ "Номінації". Chest profesiyi (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 10 March 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  4. ↑ "«Громадське ТБ»: «Все гірше, ніж ви думаєте, але надія є»". STV (in Ukrainian). 13 June 2013. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  5. ↑ "YanukovychLeaks: Що змінилось за рік після сенсаційних знахідок у "Межигір'ї"". DW (in Ukrainian). 20 February 2015. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  6. ↑ Babinets, Anna (6 April 2014). "How Kurchenko's offshores worked". Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Archived from the original on 17 July 2025. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  7. ↑ Babinets, Anna (24 April 2014). "Kurchenko May Have Tried to Transfer Assets to Russia". Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Archived from the original on 15 June 2025. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  8. ↑ Babinets, Anna (11 April 2014). "Ukraine faces big challenges in recovering Kurchenko's property". Kyiv Post. Archived from the original on 13 May 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  9. ↑ "Newsroom Mezhyhirya: The story of YanukovychLeaks". Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. 10 June 2014. Archived from the original on 15 June 2025. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  10. ↑ "НАШИ СОТРУДНИКИ". Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (in Russian). Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  11. ↑ "Журналісти «Громадського ТБ» є співавторами проекту, що отримав Пулітцерівську премію". Detektor Media (in Ukrainian). 11 April 2017. Archived from the original on 7 July 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  12. ↑ Molodetska, Liliya (11 April 2017). "Анна Бабінець: «Ще не всі документи Panama Papers щодо України опрацьовані»". Detektor Media (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 24 June 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  13. ↑ "ПОДВІЙНЕ ЖИТТЯ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА". Hromadske (in Ukrainian). 3 April 2016. Archived from the original on 4 March 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  14. ↑ "«Вбивство Павла»: розслідування загибелі журналіста Шеремета". Hromadske (in Ukrainian). 10 May 2017. Archived from the original on 16 May 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  15. ↑ "2017 IRE Award winners -". Investigative Reporters and Editors. 2017. Archived from the original on 4 March 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  16. ↑ "У США Анастасії Станко й Анні Бабінець вручили премії за сміливість у журналістиці". Detektor Media (in Ukrainian). 23 October 2019. Archived from the original on 24 October 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2025.