Rui Araujo, Portugal, is an award-winning investigative journalist who has covered wars in Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, Libya, Central African Republic, Syria and particularly East Timor, the former Portuguese colony.
He is a stringer for Revista Luzes (A Coruña, Spain) and Fonterad (Madrid, Spain).
Araujo is a former stringer for UPI, RFI, O Jornal, Expresso, Público, Libération, Le Point, and co-founder of Grande Reportagem. In 1987, he reported for CBS News on the Iran-Contra scandal.
He has been an ombudsman for Público. He is also a former reporter for TVI.
Araujo has won 11 journalism awards. A graduate of the Sorbonne, he was a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University in 1991.
He is the author or co-author of nine books (four of them are non-fiction), and is a contributing writer to Corruption Notebooks (Center for Public Integrity). He is writing another book with two friends from the Special Forces.
Read a Q&A with Araujo in ICIJ's Secrets of the Masters series.
Rui resigned as an ICIJ member in 2023.
There is no democracy without efficient institutions and too many journalists passively accept this, says Portuguese investigative journalist and "troublemaker" Rui Araujo.
Nov 20, 2012
Sep 10, 2012