Fredrik Laurin

Fredrik Laurin is an investigative reporter/producer for the current affairs show "Uppdrag Granskning" on Swedish Public Broadcasting, SVT. He works in a team with Sven Bergman and Joachim Dyfvermark.^[1]^[2]

1 Biography
2 Reporting
3 Articles
4 Filmography
5 Selected awards
6 References

Biography

Fredrik Laurin has been working as a journalist since 1989.

Since 2006 as investigative reporter/producer for Sweden’s main investigative Programme "Uppdrag granskning" at SVT - Swedish Television.

Before that as investigative reporter/producer for the current affairs show "Kalla Fakta" ("Cold Facts") Swedish National TV4 and earlier at the Swedish News Agency TT, the Current Affairs Show "Striptease" on Swedish Television, SVT, and the media newspaper "Resumé".

Fredrik Laurin teaches Swedish journalists in investigative journalism techniques in courses organized, among others, by the Swedish Investigative Reporters and Editors "Grävande Journalister", and at the University of Stockholm School of Journalism.

Reporting

In 2005 the team were rewarded with a number of awards, among them awards from the Overseas Press Club of America, RTNDA:s Edward R Murrow award [2] and the Stora Journalistpriset sv:Stora journalistpriset#2005 (Swedish equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize) as well as the Swedish Investigative Reporters and Editors award "Guldspaden" for their reporting ^[3] on the secret deportation of two Egyptians in what was one of the first operations known as "Extraordinary rendition".

The two men, Ahmed Agiza and Muhammed Al Zery, were taken from Bromma airport in Sweden in December 2001 to Egypt in a covert operation by US agents and handed over to Egyptian security services and were subsequently tortured. The story caused a major uproar in Sweden, drew international attention and was one of the first to shed light on "Extraordinary Rendition". The plane uncovered in the report as the one used in the rendition was a US registered Gulfstream V with the registration number N379P. ^[4]^[5] It was found by the reporters, and their partners in the reporting like UK-reporter Stephen Grey ^[6] to be part of a much larger fleet of planes used for rendition operations. ^[7]

Fredrik Laurin and his colleagues also received several awards, among them a second "Stora Journalistpriset", for their 2007 report ^[8] on the bribery in the sale of the Swedish jet-fighter Gripen to the Czech Republic, Hungary and South Africa.

In September 2008 they received the ICIJ Daniel Perl award ^[9] for their 2006 report in National TV4 ^[10] "The Illegal Cod" on the illegal fishing in the Barents Sea.^[11] and in November 2009 were appointed Environemental journalist of the year^[12] for "Pink Gold" on the (un-)sustainable farming of salmon.

In August 2006 Fredrik Laurin and Joachim Dyfvermark were awarded the Norwegian "Breiflabb-price" for the reports "The Illegal Cod". The price is given to journalists who in their professional work has contributed to a positive development of the fishing industry.

In 2003 the trio was awarded the Swedish Investigative Journalists Price of Honour together with Fredrik Lundberg for a story uncovering a huge corruption scandal in "Systembolaget" (the Swedish State Monopoly on Alcohol).

Fredrik Laurin was together with Leif Holmkvist awarded the Swedish Investigative Reporters and Editors award "Guldspaden" 2000, for the revelation of bribes in the Swedish campaign for the summer Olympic Games 2004.

Articles

2010 and 2011: (part of the team that produced) International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reports on Looting the Seas" on Bluefin tuna and Spains role in the overfishing of the world.
2009: "In deep waters" - Filter - on overfishing in the world and a Swedish businesmans role in that.
2010: "Bluefin tuna - Looting the Seas" - an ICIJ investigation into how the bluefin tuna is being overfished and the control systems are flawed. Laurin initiated the project and was an advising editor. In 2011 the report received the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Tom Renner award.
2011: "Spain - Looting the Seas" - an ICIJ investigation into how Spain is the biggest receiver of fish-industry subsidies while at the same time being the biggest offender. Laurin advised and text-edited on the project.

Filmography

2011: "The letter from Mubarak" - on the legacy of the Swedish-Egyptian security collaberation, and first-ever interviews with the rendition-victims Ahmed Agiza and Muhammed Alzery.
2011: "Portrait of Torbjörn Törnqvist" - Swedish dollar billionare and oiltrader. Head of and part owner of gigant oil trader Gunvor.
2010: "Euro Orphans" - how migrant workers in the wealthier parts of Europe has to abandon their kids.
2010: "The Secret of Omega 3" - How fish from Western Sahara is smuggled to the Omega 3 market in Scandinavia
2009: "The pink gold" - How farmed salmon is emptying the oceans
2008: "Josephs fate" - torture in the Kongo under EU and UN flag.
2007: "Gripen - the secret deals"
2006: "The Illegal Cod"
2005: "The Broken Promise" part 5
2004: "The broken promise" part 1,2,3 and 4 Investigative programme. Swedish TV4. A series revealing the political game behind a secret deportation of two terror-suspected Egyptian men, conducted by American agents on Swedish ground.
2003: "The network". Investigative programme. Swedish TV4. A series Revealing the largest corruption scandal in the history of Sweden, involving hundreds of people in the Swedish State Monopoly on Alcohol.
2003: "They are listening". Investigative programme. Swedish TV4. A program revealing how the Swedish Defence Radio Authority controls internet and telephone communications.
2003: "The real operation of DC3". Investigative programme. Swedish TV4. A review of the historic shoot-down by Soviet Russia of a Swedish signals intelligence plane over the Baltic Sea during the Cold War.
2002/2003: "The Black Sea". Investigative programme. Swedish TV4. A series revealing the systematic illegal fishing and selling of cod in the Baltic Sea.
2002: "The Swede at Guantanamo Bay". Documentary. Swedish TV4. About the Swede Mehdi Muhammed Gehzali who was arrested on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan in December 2001 and detained on the American military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
2001: "The real life of an AU-pair". Investigative programme. Swedish TV4. A review on the real and often harsh conditions of young women from Eastern Europe, working as AU-pair in the homes of rich Swedish families.

Selected awards

2011: Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Tom Renner award[3] for "Bluefin tuna - Looting the Seas" - an ICIJ, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, project on how blue fin tuna is becoming extinct due to IUU and a collapsed control scheme.
2009 Environemntal Journalsit of the year[4] (with Joachim Dyfvermark and Sven Bergman) for "Rosa Guld" - on the down-sides of the gigant salmonfarming industry.
2008 Daniel Pearl Award[5] (with Joachim Dyfvermark and Sven Bergman) for "Den svarta torsken"
2008 Edward R Murrow Award (with Sven Bergman och Joachim Dyfvermark) for "Gripen - the secret deals"
2007 Stora journalistpriset for "Årets avslöjande" (with med Joachim Dyfvermark and Sven Bergman), Uppdrag granskning, SVT for "Gripen - the secret deals"
2005 Stora journalistpriset for "Årets avslöjande" (with med Joachim Dyfvermark and Sven Bergman), Kalla fakta, TV4 for "the broken promise" ^[13]^[14]
2005 Publicistklubbens stora pris (with Joachim Dyfvermark and Sven Bergman), Kalla fakta, TV4 för "The broken promise"
2004 Overseas Press Clubs Eric and Amy Burger Award (with med Joachim Dyfvermark and Sven Bergman), Kalla fakta, TV4 for "The broken promise"
2004 Guldspaden (with Sven Bergman and Joachim Dyfvermark) for "The broken promise" i Kalla fakta, TV4.
2004 Edward R Murrow Award (tillsammans med Sven Bergman och Joachim Dyfvermark) for "The broken promise"
2003 Hedersomnämnande Guldspaden bribes in state liqour monopoly Systembolaget.
2000 Guldspaden (with Leif Holmqvist) bribes in the Swedish Olympic campaign 2004.

References

^ http://www.trojkan.se
^ http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/icij/journalists/profile/1108/
^ http://www.trojkan.se/temp/Reportage/KF%20Det%20Brutna%20l%f6ftet%20Extraordinary%20Rendition/English%20version/
^ Swedish TV4 Kalla Fakta Program: "The Broken Promise" (English Transcript) Monday,17th May, 2004
^ Swedish TV4 Kalla Fakta Program: "The Broken Promise", Part II (English Transcript) Monday, 24th May, 2004
^ http://www.stephengrey.com/
^ Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program, Stephen Grey, Macmillan, 2007, ISBN 9780312360245
^ http://www.trojkan.se/temp/Reportage/SVT%20JAS%20Gripen/English%20subtitles/
^ http://www.publicintegrity.org/news/entry/706/
^ http://www.tv4.se/1.627649/2008/09/14/tv4_s_kalla_fakta_vann_prestigefyllt_journalistpris
^ http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=101561
^ http://www.miljojournalisterna.se/priset/vinnare.htm
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