Sashka Cvetkovska investigates domestic and international organized crime and corruption and is one of the pioneers in researching media ownership and propaganda in the country as a co-founder of the first media ownership database Mediapedia.
Since 2015, Cvetkovska has worked on the international investigative project Spooks and Spins: Information Wars in the Balkans, which aims to uncover centers of power and money flows in global information wars. In recent years, she has worked on a series of domestic and international investigations exposing corruption, illegal arms trade, espionage, and influence peddling. Her articles have been published in some of the world’s most influential media outlets such as The Guardian, BuzzFeed, Der Standard, and others. She was also part of the global investigation Panama Papers, which resulted in the closure of the company Mossack Fonseca in Panama. She has received more than ten domestic and international awards for her work, including the annual Reporters Without Borders prize for Europe — European Press Prize 2018 — Signal for Europe. This year, she was elected as a Board Member of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), with a mandate to represent its 43 member organizations in 33 countries.