Craig Shaw
Editor/Director
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An award-winning journalist and the Director of The Black Sea Foundation. As a journalist, I’ve worked on human rights, political corruption, financial and organised crime reporting, and transnational investigative projects for 15 years.
My work has appeared in leading international media outlets, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Independent, L’Espresso, Mediapart, Expresso, Der Spiegel, der Freitag, De Correspondent, NRC Handelsblad, Le Soir, De Standaard, Cumhuriyet, Reuters, infoLibre, The Intercept, and others.
Over the past 15 years, I have participated in cross-border investigations, ICIJ’s Offshore Leaks, one of the first large-scale global collaborations in investigative journalism, which received multiple international awards, and the award-winning European Investigative Collaborations’ Football Leaks. Other collaborations include Malta Files, Billions for Borders, Mafia in Africa, The Forever Lobbying Project, and Green to Grey.
Malta Files was nominated for Best Investigation of the Year (Global) at the British Journalism Awards and for the European Press Prize (Investigation Category), and was a finalist for the Tom Renner Prize at the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Awards. Football Leaks was nominated for Best Investigation of the Year (Global) at the British Journalism Awards. I was a producer on Black Trail, which won First Prize in the Digital Category at the Journalism for Sustainability Awards of Fundação Mestre Casais in Portugal. More recently, The Forever Lobbying Project, a cross-border investigation exposing chemical industry lobbying, won the Helen Darbishire Award. The Black Sea’s investigation The Lost Boat was shortlisted for the True Story Award in 2026, and Green to Grey was nominated for the Sigma Awards. Me and my colleagues at The Black Sea won the 2026 Special Jury Prize at the Metin Göktepe Journalism Awards in Turkey for the Green to Grey project.
In 2022, ai co-founded Stichting The Black Sea, a non-profit organisation in Amsterdam, which publishes theblacksea.eu.
Twitter: @cpshaw