Christo Buschek

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Christo Buschek (* 1980 in Graz ) is an Austrian information technician , investigative journalist , BuzzFeed employee and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize 2021 in the International Reporting category .

Live and act

Christo Buschek graduated from the Academic Gymnasium Graz in 1990 , where he passed the Matura in 1998 .

He has been working in the IT sector for almost 20 years as a software developer , programmer and specialist in network security ( English : digital security trainer ). His specialty is working on data-related research for human rights organizations and investigative journalists.

From 2018 he participated along with Megha Rajagopalan and Alison Killing on a project to investigate by the Chinese authorities operated, by this time largely not locatable what has been Uyghur - Camps . With its programming tools , Buschek made it possible to collect the data for research and to process it accordingly in order to derive results from it.

Using satellite images and interviews with people detained in such camps, around 280 camp sites and internment facilities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region were found, with many more camps found than are officially known. According to Buschek, these were then divided into three categories: “Those that we were very sure about, those that we believe are camps, which we could not prove, and there is a certain category in the third category Probability. The data can be verified in all cases. ”The results of the research were published on August 27, 2020 on BuzzFeed News.

In collaboration with Hadi Al Khatib and Giovanni Civardi, Buschek is also making data on human rights violations accessible in a protected manner in another project .

Buschek lives in Berlin and visits his hometown Graz at regular intervals to be with his relatives.

Pulitzer Prize Award

Christo Buschek was awarded the Pulitzer Prize 2021 in the category on June 11, 2021 together with Megha Rajagopalan and Alison Killing for the four-part report Built to Last about the discovery of the previously unknown Uyghur camps published on BuzzFeed News on August 27, 2020 International reporting excellent. He is the first Austrian to receive the Pulitzer Prize , which has been awarded since 1917 .

It was the first BuzzFeed News team to win a Pulitzer Prize.

Quotes

"The investigation shows, China has established a sprawling system to detain and incarcerate hundreds of thousands of Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities, in what is already the largest-scale detention of ethnic and religious minorities since World War II."

“The investigation shows that China has set up an extensive system to arrest and imprison hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs , Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities . This means the largest incarceration of ethnic and religious minorities since World War II . "

- pulitzercenter.org : from the Pulitzer Center report of August 27, 2020 on the Built to Last project .

“What happens in Xinjiang is a tragedy of epic proportions. Living in Europe, people often think that such grave violations of human rights and genocide are a thing of the past. I hope people understand that such acts are still happening today and can happen anywhere. "

“What is happening in Xinjiang is a tragedy of epic proportions . Those who live in Europe often think that such serious human rights violations and genocide are a thing of the past. I hope people understand that such acts happen today and can happen anywhere. "

- Christo Buschek : quoted by Amaris Castillo in BuzzFeed News wins its first Pulitzer Prize for series on China's mass detention of Muslims .

“ I don't really have heroes . I believe that, in principle, we should appreciate more those who tirelessly uncover grievances and report on them every day without being in the limelight. "

- Christo Buschek's answer to the question whether he had role models (quoted by the Austrian weekly newspaper Falter ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 2021 Pulitzer Prizes Journalism. In: pulitzer.org. 2021, accessed June 14, 2021 . (English)
  2. ↑ a b c Laurel: Grazer Christo Buschek received the renowned Pulitzer Prize. Independent software developer took part in data-based research on Uighur camps in China. In: derstandard.at. June 13, 2021, accessed June 14, 2021 .
  3. ↑ Annual report of the Akademisches Gymnasium Graz 1997/1998. Ed .: Akademisches Gymnasium Graz. Self-published by the Akademisches Gymnasium Graz, Graz 1998, p. 35.
  4. ↑ a b c Amaris Castillo: BuzzFeed News wins its first Pulitzer Prize for series on China's mass detention of Muslims. In: poynter.org. June 11, 2021, accessed June 14, 2021 . (English)
  5. ↑ a b Armin Wolf : ZIB 2 am Sonntag: Grazer Buschek receives Pulitzer Prize. In: tvthek.orf.at. June 13, 2021, accessed June 14, 2021 . (ZIB 2 contribution from 3:30 p.m.)
  6. ^ A b Barbara Tóth: A Pulitzer Prize for Christo Buschek. In: falter.at. June 16, 2021, accessed June 22, 2021 .
  7. ↑ Pulitzer Prize for Christo Buschek from Graz. In: wienerzeitung.at. June 13, 2021, accessed June 14, 2021 .
  8. ↑ Ncube: We make data on human rights violations accessible in a protected manner. In: prototypefund.de. Retrieved June 16, 2021 .
  9. ↑ Christo Buschek: The renowned Pulitzer Prize went to Grazer! In: krone.at. June 12, 2021, accessed June 14, 2021 .
  10. ↑ Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing, Christo Buschek: Built to Last. In: buzzfeednews.com. August 27, 2020, accessed June 14, 2021 . (English)
  11. ↑ Sonja Peitler-Hasewend: Pulitzer Prize: Graz awarded for uncovering secret internment camps in China. In: kleinezeitung.at. June 12, 2021, accessed June 14, 2021 .
  12. ^ The 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting. In: pulitzer.org. 2021, accessed June 14, 2021 . (English)
  13. ↑ Christo Buschek from Graz received the Pulitzer Prize. In: orf.at. June 12, 2021, accessed June 13, 2021 .
  14. ↑ PROJECT Built to Last. pulitzercenter.org, August 27, 2020, accessed June 23, 2021 . (English)
personal data
SURNAME Buschek, Christo
SHORT DESCRIPTION Austrian information technician, journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner 2021
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz