Malina Mindrutescu | Lead Stories
Malina Mindrutescu is a Romanian journalist, fact-checker, and researcher reporting on business, technology, and foreign affairs. Her work has appeared in Panorama, an award-winning multimedia business journalism platform in Romania, as well as in international publications, such as Foreign Policy, Balkan Insight, Sifted, Good Beer Hunting, and Focus Magazin (Germany). She is a Marcin Król Fellow at Visegrad Insight, the main Central European platform of debate and analysis, and has also been involved in local and regional projects for the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network.
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