Balint Bardi | Lead Stories
Balint Bardi is a freelance fact-checker, local producer, and video journalist based in Budapest, Hungary. He has been covering Hungarian and Central-Eastern European politics and social issues since 2014 mainly for European and US news outlets. In the last ten years he worked with CNN, NBC, The New York Times, HBO, Vice, BBC, The Guardian, The Financial Times and many others including two leading Hungarian online news sites hvg.hu and 24.hu.
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