Cristian Lupșa is one of the co-founding editors of DoR, a digital and print magazine innovated Romanian independent journalism (it published from 2009 to 2022). He believes well-crafted narrative journalism and storytelling can connect people, heal wounds, inspire, lead, and create change. His career in journalism began in 2000, and has taken him from Romania to the U.S., and back. He started DoR in 2009, and in 2011 he began hosting The Power of Storytelling, an international storytelling conference in Bucharest. Cristian is a 2014 Nieman Fellow, and alongside his team at DoR was one of the European Press Prize winners of the 2017 Special Award and the 2020 Innovation Award.
Since 2021 he is part of the Press Prize’s preparatory committee.