[5] Radu was born in Deva, Hunedoara County, in a family with roots both from the region and from Timișoara.

After graduation, he moved to Bucharest, where he was assigned investigative work and also covered criminal affairs for several newspapers.

[21] Radu is the executive producer of the award-winning film “The Killing of a Journalist.”[22] In 2023, he co-founded Floodlight: Fiction in the Public Interest, an initiative that brings together investigative journalists and filmmakers together to make TV series and films.

[23] Also in 2023, Radu oversaw the NarcoFiles project, a series of investigations that revealed the inner workings of transnational smuggling gangs from Latin America to Europe.

He is a committee member of the Paris Charter on AI and Journalism which defines ethics and principles that journalists, newsrooms and media outlets can apply in their work with artificial intelligence.