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REPORTERS
Who
participates in IRENE?
The goal of IRENE is to build a strong network among
investigative reporters in all European
countries. So far, several (subsidized)
cross border projects have taken place.
Reporters involved are:
Marleen
Teugels (Belgium)
Marleen
mainly publishes investigative stories in
the Flemish weekly news magazine Knack. She
does a lot of research on health and
well-being. She
was the first journalist in Belgium  that
used the freedom of information act, and she
went with the Flemish Association of
Journalists (VVJ) to the Council of State in
a case dealing with the financing of tobacco
prevention campaigns by the tobacco industry.
As a result of FOI files she together with
colleagues succeeded to dig up the European
agricultural subsidies on a federal and
Flemish level.
For
several years she consequently researched
the possible toxic impact of warfare on
soldiers and civilians. She wrote a book on
the subject ‘Met stille trom’, which has
been translated into French, ‘Armes sales,
guerre propre?’. Other research projects
dealt with investments in the porn industry
by top businessmen, sexual abuse by
professionals and muslim women in Brussels
fighting for their own identity.
With the asbestos research she did in
2006-2007, together with Nico Krols, she won
two prices for to outstanding
journalism: the Dexia Price 2007 and
the VVOJ price 2007. The asbestos research
ultimately resulted in the publication of
‘The Dirty Legacy of Asbestos’ that
appeared internationally in ‘Le Monde
Diplomatique’ and has been translated in
more than 27 languages. Mail
to Marleen
Luuk
Sengers (Netherlands)
Luuk
is a freelance investigative reporter and
journalism lecturer. He started his carreer
in 1989 as an economic editor at local
newspaper Haarlems Dagblad. Later he
went to work for
the  news
agency Geassocieerde Pers Diensten (GPD)
in The Hague, the national newspaper NRC
Handelsblad, business magazine Quote and
the weekly general interest magazine Intermediair.
In
2005 he established his own production
company.
He
writes about planes,
trains and automobiles. As well as about
power plants and water utility companies. In the past he
has also published stories about
social-economic issues: work and income, social
security, health and food.
Luuk
wrote investigative pieces about train
accidents, hormone disrupting chemicals in
drinking water, unsafe baby food,
wage differences, unfairness in the tax
system, diminishing social security and
rising poverty. His stories have been
published in newspapers and magazines and on
the websites of non-profit organizations.
Luuk
is secretary of the Dutch-Flemish
Assiociation of Investigative Journalists (VVOJ)
and founder of on
the record, a search portal for
journalists.
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Mail
to Luuk
Brigitte
Alfter (Denmark)
Brigitte has
since 2004 been the EU-correspondent in
Brussels for the Danish daily Information.
She has covered EU-matters for a number of
years, and also writes about  media
law for journalist magazines in European
countries.
She uses
freedom of information legislation as a
journalistic tool and conducts training on
the subject.
A board
member of the Danish Association for
Investigative Journalism since 2002, she
was one of the coordinators for the Danish
Scoop project to support investigative
journalism in South East Europe and the
Ukraine. And she is a board member of the
German association Netzwerk Recherche
since 2007.
Brigitte was
nominated for the Danish Cavling award for
journalists in 2006 along with www.farmsubsidy.org colleague
Nils Mulvad, and she was awarded the IRE
Freedom of Information Award along with
farmsubsidy colleagues Nils Mulvad and
Jack Thurston.
Joop
Bouma (Netherlands)
Joop
is
an editor and reporter for the Dutch daily
newspaper Trouw, where he has
covered environmental and criminal beats and
has also served as national editor.
Previously, Joop was  a
crime reporter and national news editor at
various daily newspapers in the
Netherlands
.
Joop
is the author of The
Smokescreen: The Power of the Dutch Tobacco
Industry (2001),
which examines influence-peddling in the
government and media by cigarette companies.
And in 2006 he published a book (Slikken.
Hoe ziek is de farmaceutische industrie) about
Big Pharma’s marketing practices. He
speaks about the industry at conferences and
medical education courses for doctors and
pharmacologists in
Holland
and he regularly talks about his work at
journalism schools.
Since
2001 he is a member of the International
Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ,
based in
Washington
DC
, a project of the Center for Public
Integrity. He is one of the founders of the
Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative
Reporters VVOJ. Mail
to Joop
e-mail:
info(at)irene-reporters.org
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