Zuzana Vlasatá is an investigative reporter and the deputy editor-in-chief at the independent Czech daily Deník Referendum, where she is also in charge of its reporting unit.

She focuses on environmental topics, oligarchs, corporate power, and state capture. She is a member of the Board of the Committee of the International Press Institute Czech Republic.

Zuzana Vlasatá

Basic information

Name
Zuzana Vlasatá
Title
Reporter and editor
Expertise
Environment, oligarchs, corporate power, and state capture
Country
Czechia
City
Brno
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Supported projects

Dammed Waters

  • Cities
  • Climate
  • Environment

BRNO - 'Dammed Waters' examines the political and economic interests behind contrasting flood defence approaches across the Czech Republic and Poland. Through field reporting, data analysis and in-depth interviews, this cross-border investigation uncovers why some flood defences in the region succeed whilst others fail catastrophically.

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A photo from Osiecznica, village in western Poland, which has beed flooded for the third time in 2024_Author_ Natalia Kukulska-Żołądek, Natalia FotoArt

Forever Lobbying Project

  • Data Journalism
  • Environment
  • Industry

BRUSSELS - Over a year, a team of 46 journalists in 16 countries investigated an ongoing massive, orchestrated lobbying and disinformation campaign led by the PFAS industry and their allied organisations to water down a proposal to ban “forever chemicals” in the EU and shift the burden of environmental pollution onto society, threatening the economic equilibrium of European nations.

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