Spas Spasov is a long-time journalist at Dnevnik.bg and the newspaper Capital. He graduated with a degree in Bulgarian Philology and French Language and Literature, after which he worked in various print and electronic media. He completed the course “Media on the Internet” at the Center for Training and Advanced Studies for Journalists (CFPJ), interned at Radio France Internationale and France Info, and in 2013 was a fellow of the World Press Institute in Minneapolis, USA.
He began his professional career in the spring of 1989—just a few months before the fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria and the beginning of the country’s democratic transition.
In 1995, he participated in the development of the programming concept for Bulgaria’s first private news radio station, which provided real-time news updates with bulletins every twenty minutes. In 2005, he became editor-in-chief of Morski Dnevnik, a regional weekly edition of Dnevnik covering the cities of Varna and Burgas. Within its first year of publication, the newspaper won the special award of the Union of Bulgarian Journalists for contribution to regional journalism.
Since 2017, alongside his work for Dnevnik.bg and Capital, Spasov has been the publisher of Za Istinata, a website created in support of critical and investigative regional journalism in Bulgaria. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of European Journalists – Bulgaria.
Since the first edition of “The Black Book of Government Waste in Bulgaria,” a publication of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Spasov has been an annual contributor with more than 10 published investigations. He is also the author of seven short documentary films about corruption and misuse of public funds in Bulgaria, produced by the foundation.
Among other awards in 2012, he received the Special “Person of the Year” Award for journalistic integrity from the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee. For his investigative work, Spas Spasov has twice (2016 and 2021) been awarded the Golden Key prize by the Access to Information Programme Foundation.