Aktuality.sk

Aktuality.sk is one of the leading Slovakian digital media outlets and an information source for the average Slovak.The outlet aims to be the primary general news source for everyone, regardless of political affiliation. However, all recent Slovak governments have repeatedly attacked the newsroom, mostly verbally; international organisations such as Reporters without Borders have criticised Slovak politicians for those attacks.The outlet has recently entered the publishing industry, mostly publishing books by in-house journalists, such as journalists specialised in organised crime or politics. Its investigative unit is the largest in the Slovak media industry and cooperates with international investigative networks, such as the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.Aktuality.sk's reporter and investigative journalist Ján Kuciak (17 May 1990 – 21 February 2018) was killed along with his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová, in their home in Slovakia. The murder was ordered by a Slovak businessman, the subject of Kuciak's investigations and articles. Kuciak was the first journalist murdered in Slovakia since the country's independence, and the murder provoked public outrage and a political crisis.