Fredrik Laurin

Fredrik Laurin is Special Projects Editor at the investigative department at Swedish Public Television, SVT.

Biography

Fredrik Laurin has been working as a journalist since 1989. He´s currently Special projects Editor at Swedish Television. During fourteen years from 2000 he formed a team with Sven Bergman and Joachim Dyfvermark.[1][2] and was since 2006 working with them as an investigative reporter/producer for Sweden’s main investigative Programme "Uppdrag granskning" at SVT - Swedish Television.

Before that as investigative reporter/producer for the current affairs show "Kalla Fakta" ("Cold Facts") Swedish National TV4 and earlier at the Swedish News Agency TT, the Current Affairs Show "Striptease" on Swedish Television, SVT, and the media newspaper "Resumé".

In 2014 Fredrik Laurin took over as head of the investigative team at Swedish Radio, SR Ekot, but was 1,5 years later headhunted back to SVT as Special Projects Editor. He lectures on investigative journalism techniques in courses organized, among others, by the Swedish Investigative Reporters and Editors "Grävande Journalister", the Global Investigative Journalism Conferences, GIJC, ARIJ seminars and at the Universities of Stockholm and Gothenburg´s School of Journalism. He´s a member of the International Consortioum of Investigative Reporters, ICIJ.

Reporting

In 2005 the team were rewarded with a number of awards, among them awards from the Overseas Press Club of America, RTNDA:s Edward R Murrow award and the Stora Journalistpriset sv:Stora journalistpriset#2005 (Swedish equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize) as well as the Swedish Investigative Reporters and Editors award "Guldspaden" for their reporting [3] on the secret deportation of two Egyptians in what was one of the first operations known as "Extraordinary rendition".

The two men, Ahmed Agiza and Muhammed Al Zery, were taken from Bromma airport in Sweden in December 2001 to Egypt in a covert operation by US agents and handed over to Egyptian security services and were subsequently tortured. The story caused a major uproar in Sweden, drew international attention and was one of the first to shed light on "Extraordinary Rendition". The plane uncovered in the report as the one used in the rendition was a US registered Gulfstream V with the registration number N379P.[4][5] It was found by the reporters, and their partners in the reporting like UK-reporter Stephen Grey [6] to be part of a much larger fleet of planes used for rendition operations.[7]

Fredrik Laurin and his colleagues also received several awards, among them a second "Stora Journalistpriset", for their 2007 report [8] on the bribery in the sale of the Swedish jet-fighter Gripen to the Czech Republic, Hungary and South Africa.

In September 2008 they received the ICIJ Daniel Perl award [9] for their 2006 report in National TV4 [10] "The Illegal Cod" on the illegal fishing in the Barents Sea.[11] and in November 2009 were appointed Environemental journalist of the year[12] for "Pink Gold" on the (un-)sustainable farming of salmon.

In 2013 the trio started publishing a story on the state owned Swedish Telecom giant Telia Sonera. In April 2014 a one hour documentary could expose how the company cooperated with oppressive regimes in a business region the company called "Eurasia" that included lopng time dictatorships like Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. In September 2016 the first reportage on how the company also bribed their way to these markets was published which after several subsequent reports led to the resignation of the company's CEO Lars Nyberg (2013) and the board. In 2015 Telia Sonera declared that it was selling all its assets in "Eurasia" - and the loss to the biggest owner - the Swedish state - was estimated at 20 BN SEK Dagens industri . The recipient of Telia Soneras payments for Uzbek licenses, Gulnara Karimova the daughter to the long time dictator Islam Karimov, was deposed by her father because of the international scandal following the publication. In 2013 the trio was awarded another "Guldspaden" by Swedish Investigative Editors and Reporters and with a third "Stora Journalistpriset"Stora journalistpriset for their reporting on Telia Sonera.

In August 2006 Fredrik Laurin and Joachim Dyfvermark were awarded the Norwegian "Breiflabb-price" for the reports "The Illegal Cod". The price is given to journalists who in their professional work has contributed to a positive development of the fishing industry.

In addition the trio was in 2003 awarded the Swedish Investigative Journalists Price of Honour together with Fredrik Lundberg for a story uncovering a huge corruption scandal in "Systembolaget" (the Swedish State Monopoly on Alcohol).

Fredrik Laurin was together with Leif Holmkvist awarded the Swedish Investigative Reporters and Editors award "Guldspaden" 2000, for the revelation of bribes in the Swedish campaign for the summer Olympic Games 2004.

Articles

Filmography

Selected awards

References

  1. ↑ http://www.trojkan.se
  2. ↑ http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/icij/journalists/profile/1108/
  3. ↑ http://www.trojkan.se/temp/Reportage/KF%20Det%20Brutna%20l%f6ftet%20Extraordinary%20Rendition/English%20version/
  4. ↑ Swedish TV4 Kalla Fakta Program: "The Broken Promise" (English Transcript) Monday,17 May 2004
  5. ↑ Swedish TV4 Kalla Fakta Program: "The Broken Promise", Part II (English Transcript) Monday, 24 May 2004
  6. ↑ http://www.stephengrey.com/
  7. ↑ Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program, Stephen Grey, Macmillan, 2007, ISBN 9780312360245
  8. ↑ http://www.trojkan.se/temp/Reportage/SVT%20JAS%20Gripen/English%20subtitles/
  9. ↑ http://www.publicintegrity.org/news/entry/706/
  10. ↑ http://www.tv4.se/1.627649/2008/09/14/tv4_s_kalla_fakta_vann_prestigefyllt_journalistpris
  11. ↑ http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=101561
  12. ↑ http://www.miljojournalisterna.se/priset/vinnare.htm
  13. ↑
  14. ↑ Aftonbladet
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