VSquare is one of the leading regional voices of investigative journalism in Central Europe. We offer unique cross-border coverage of vital topics in our region for English speaking audiences.

The name “VSquare” comes from “V4,” an abbreviation of the Visegrád Four country group, which is made up of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. In the spring of 2017, a group of independent investigative journalists from the four Visegrád countries decided to join forces and create VSquare, a regional collaborative platform where they could present their investigations to an international audience. Warsaw-based non-profit journalistic center Fundacja Reporterów has become the VSquare publisher.

Today, the network consists of the top non-profit investigative journalism centers in the region: Polish outlet Frontstory.pl; Investigace.cz from the Czech Republic; Átlátszó.hu and Direkt36.hu from Hungary; and The Investigative Center of Ján Kuciak from Slovakia. In 2022, VSquare set up its core team and extended into collaboration with the Baltic countries, Ukraine, and Belarus. Together with Delfi Estonia and partners, we published widely internationally quoted series #KremlinLeaks, exposing Russian influence operations in CEE.