ndrás is co-founder, editor and executive director of Direkt36. Previously, he was a senior editor for leading Hungarian news site Origo before it had been transformed into the government’s propaganda outlet.

Gabriel Pogrund is editor of Insight, The Sunday Times investigations team. He was named political journalist of the year and news journalist of the year at the 2025 Press Awards. For his investigative reporting on the government, the BBC, MI5 and MI6, he won journalist of the year at the 2023 British Journalism Awards.

Gavin Millar KC is a specialist barrister in all areas of media law. He often represents media outlets, journalists and politicians in both civil and criminal proceedings. He represented the Telegraph Media Group at the Leveson Inquiry and in 2013 advised the Guardian on its coverage of Edward Snowden’s disclosures.

Gill Phillips is a solicitor who works as an editorial legal consultant for a number of NGOs and not-for-profits, advising on a range of content-related matters including defamation, privacy, contempt of court and reporting restrictions.

Hannah Natanson is a narrative enterprise reporter on the National desk. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, a Livingston Award and the Toner Prize in 2026 for coverage of Trump's sweeping transformation of the government.

Harlo Holmes is the Director of Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organisations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large.

Igor Ostrovskiy is an experienced professional investigator who started in undercover investigations in 2007. Igor blew the whistle on Harvey Weinstein’s surveillance of journalists in 2016. He cares deeply about press freedom and is passionate about supporting at-risk journalists and individuals.

Jack Grove covers research and science policy for Times Higher Education, as well as on issues relating to PhD, postdoctoral and early career researchers. He has a BA in English from the University of Bristol, and previously worked on newspapers including the Cambridge News and the Peterborough Evening Telegraph.

James Harkin is the director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism. He is a journalist who covers social change and political conflict and whose work appears in Vanity Fair, Harper’s, GQ, The Smithsonian, Prospect and The Guardian.

Jason Leopold is an Emmy nominated investigative reporter on the BuzzFeed News investigations team and a member of the reporting team named a 2018 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.

Jenna Corderoy is an investigative reporter for Democracy for Sale, a newsletter dedicated to revealing how dark money and hidden influence threaten our democracy. She specialises in obtaining documents under the Freedom of Information Act, and has brought several successful FOIA challenges at tribunal.

Joe is Director of Programmes at the civilian harm watchdog Airwars and co-founder of the Open Source Munitions Portal. He was recently part of a team that produced a major investigation titled Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain.

Katrina Manson is an award–winning Bloomberg reporter who covers cyber, emerging tech and national security. Her investigations exposed details of the US military’s AI use and US–China rivalry. She was previously the Financial Times US foreign policy and defence correspondent.

Khadeeja Safdar is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she focuses on high-impact scoops and investigations. She has deep experience handling confidential documents and working with sensitive sources.

Thomas Fazi is a writer, journalist and activist. He is the author of The Battle for Europe: How an Elite Hijacked a Continent – and How We Can Take It Back (Pluto, 2014) and Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World, co-authored with economist Bill Mitchell (Pluto, 2017).

Vadim is a freelance journalist and blogger whose articles have appeared in the New York Times/International Herald Tribune, The Nation, Dissent Magazine, The Moscow Times, The Abu Dhabi National, the South African Mail and Guardian and Sunday Tribune, and the Harvard Political Review.

Vincent Kearney is Northern Editor for Raidió Teilifís Eireann (RTE), Ireland's national public service broadcaster. A former Northern Ireland Journalist of the Year, he previously worked for the BBC, Sunday Times and the Belfast Telegraph.