Denise Hruby is a journalist based in Vienna, Austria, who covers social and environmental issues and conflict across the world, from Southeast Asia and China to Europe and East Africa. She's a National Geographic Explorer and has received various grants, fellowships and awards.
Born in Austria, Denise is bilingual, and has written in English for publications like the Washington Post, National Geographic, the Guardian, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, GlobalPost, the CS Monitor and Quartz, and in German for Süddeutsche Zeitung and Brandeins.
She has spent most of the past 10 years working in Southeast Asia and China, where she was a reporter and senior editor at the Cambodia Daily and at Sixth Tone in Shanghai, as well as an independent correspondent for international publications. She's the co-author of Transitioning Cambodia and a member of journalism collective Ruom.
Denise is passionate about deeply-reported features and investigations anchored in the human experience, whether this includes interviewing survivors of sexual violence in South Sudan, following refugees along their route to Europe, wrestling sunbear cubs in Cambodia, investigating illegal sand-mining in Myanmar, tracking down rat hunters in the steppes of Inner Mongolia, or waiting for Barack Obama in a burger shack.
Born in Austria, Denise is bilingual, and has written in English for publications like the Washington Post, National Geographic, the Guardian, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, GlobalPost, the CS Monitor and Quartz, and in German for Süddeutsche Zeitung and Brandeins.
She has spent most of the past 10 years working in Southeast Asia and China, where she was a reporter and senior editor at the Cambodia Daily and at Sixth Tone in Shanghai, as well as an independent correspondent for international publications. She's the co-author of Transitioning Cambodia and a member of journalism collective Ruom.
Denise is passionate about deeply-reported features and investigations anchored in the human experience, whether this includes interviewing survivors of sexual violence in South Sudan, following refugees along their route to Europe, wrestling sunbear cubs in Cambodia, investigating illegal sand-mining in Myanmar, tracking down rat hunters in the steppes of Inner Mongolia, or waiting for Barack Obama in a burger shack.
These mothers are building homes in refugee camps (National Geographic)
Adversaries to Allies: A Contentious History of Conservation (Sixth Tone, SOPA award)
Mekong Dams Threaten Fishermen's Livelihoods (Al Jazeera)
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The Mekong - Life Downstream (World Wildlife Magazine, longform)
Tunnel Vision: Villagers Dig Their Way Out of Isolation (Sixth Tone, SOPA award)
Taoist Monks Find New Role as Environmentalists
(Sixth Tone)
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How Myanmar is Losing Its Beaches
(Earth Island Journal)
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China Cotton Growers Fear Cuts in Vital Subsidies (Nikkei Asian Review)
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