Roxana Jipa is an investigative journalist and fact checker based in Bucharest.

With 19 years experience, she is member of RISE Project Romania and is investigating corruption and organised crime in local or cross-border media projects. Also, she has been fact checking investigative stories for RISE Project and OCCRP. 

Basic information

Name
Roxana Jipa
Expertise
Investigative Journalist
Country
Romania
City
Bucharest

Supported projects

Toxic business: a tribute to progress

  • Environment
  • Healthcare

LELESTI - For years they inhaled it. Former workers of the asbestos-cement factories in Romania worked without any protection against the toxic dust. Except a milk ratio. It was supposed to protect against cancer and toxicity, or so they believed during communism. Long privatized and shut down, the factories still have their marks on people’s lungs. The diseases appear decades after the exposure.

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