Beata Biel is an award winning Polish journalist and documentary filmaker.

Beata Biel has been working in the media industry throughout her whole professional life. She began her career as a journalist at TVN, Poland’s leading commercial TV channel, in 2001. She stayed there for 10 years, also as an editor. Later she worked as a freelancer, mainly directing crime documentary series and working on investigative and social stories. Since September 2017 she’s back at TVN, coordinating the development and leading the editorial team of Konkret24, a crowd-sourced solution for fake news at TVN, supported by Google’s DNI Innovation Fund.  For the last four years, she has also been working as a media training expert, mainly with the Google News Lab (2015-2017), representing the team in Central & Eastern Europe and working with newsrooms and journalists in CEE to enhance digital knowledge and drive innovation in the media.  She also teaches at the SWPS University in Warsaw.  Beata is a member of Fundacja Reporterów, a non-profit investigative journalism initiative in Poland, and responsible for its educational activities. She is the winner of several journalism awards and was a 2011 Transatlantic Media Fellow at CSIS in Washington, D.C. Selected one of the 50 most influential women in Poland in 2016 (by Wysokie Obcasy/Gazeta Wyborcza).

Beata Biel

Basic information

Name
Beata Biel
Title
Journalist and documentary filmaker
Country
Poland
City
Warszawa
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Supported projects

Rabobank's Romanian Land Grab: Profiting from Theft and Abuse

  • Environment

The Dutch banking giant Rabobank is accused of profiting off the back of fraud, forgery and the systematic abuse of hundreds of Romania's poorest citizens, in a huge and aggressive land grab in Eastern Europe.

In the Name of the State

  • Corruption
  • Data Journalism
  • Politics

LJUBLJANA - From 1991 to 1995, the Yugoslav wars wreaked havoc on the Balkans. War crimes of all kinds and sorts hit the region with such ferocity and frequency that by the end of the 20th century Yugoslavia had been torn apart. One of the crimes committed was the illegal trade in arms by government officials of the countries involved, acts which violated the UN arms embargo.