European Press Prize

The European Press Prize is an award programme for excellence in journalism across all 47 countries of Europe. It was founded in 2012 by seven European media foundations.[1]

Each year, journalists can submit their work from October until December. The shortlist is announced in March. The prizes are awarded during the European Press Prize Ceremony in May or June.

The first ceremony was at De Balie in Amsterdam in 2013, the 2014 awards were given at the Reuters headquarters in London, in 2015 the European Press Prize visited the JP/Politiken headquarters in Copenhagen and the 2016 awards were presented in Prague with the help of the Forum2000 team. For the fifth anniversary in 2017, the ceremony was held in founding place De Balie in Amsterdam again. In 2018 it took place in Budapest at the Open Archives Society. In 2019 the European Press Prize Award Ceremony took place in Warsaw at the headquarters of Gazeta Wyborcza. As the COVID-19 pandemic prohibited the organisation of a live ceremony, the winners of 2020 were announced online.[2]

The organisation is based in Amsterdam.

Founders

The European Press Prize was devised and founded in Amsterdam by the following people and foundations:

In 2015, The Irish Times Trust joined the European Press Prize. In 2017, Agora SA joined the European Press Prize.

The Board

Jury

The jury chooses each winner from a shortlist, selected out of all of the submitted work by the preparatory committee. Each category has a maximum of six nominees.

Currently, the panel of judges consists of:

From 2013 until 2019:

  • (chair) Sir Harold Evans, editor-at-large of Thomson Reuters and the former editor of the Sunday Times
  • Jørgen Ejbol, chairman of the Jyllands-Posten Foundation[3]

Categories

Awards are given in four categories:

  • The Investigative Reporting Award for "discovering and revealing facts, exposing hidden news to the public".
  • The Distinguished Reporting Award for "exceptional reporting, telling a story in the best possible way".
  • The Opinion Award for "a remarkable textual or visual interpretation of the world we live in".
  • The Innovation Award for "challenging the current boundaries of journalism with a new idea or method".

From 2014 on, judges are also allowed to award the Special Award for exceptional journalism that transcends categories and disciplines.

The first time the European Press Prize was held in 2013, the award categories were the following:

  • Editing Award for "the editor adjudged to have contributed most to public debate and public understanding".
  • Commentator Award for "the feature writer, columnist or commentator who has done most to illuminate vital issues".
  • News Reporting Award for "the reporter, or specialist writer, whose work has made a decisive impact".
  • Innovation Award for "outstanding innovation - in print or on screen - that contributes to journalism's future".

Winners 2013
  • Editing Award

In the Editing category, the Award was won by Ihor Pochynok, Chief Editor of Express, a daily newspaper published in Lviv in the Ukraine.

  • Commentator Award

In the Commentator category, the Award went to Nikos Chrysoloras from Greece, for his article ‘Why Greece must remain in the Eurozone’, published in papers across Europe.

  • News Reporting Award

In the News Reporting category, the Award was won by three reporters from Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, Orla Borg, Carsten Ellegaard Christensen and Morten Pihl for their investigative reporting project on Morten Storm, a former agent of the Danish Secret Service.

  • Innovation Award

In the Innovation category, the award went to Paul Lewis from the United Kingdom, Special Projects Editor of The Guardian in London, for his project ‘Reading the Riots’. Together with Professor Tim Newburn from the London School of Economics and 30 researchers, Lewis launched a year-long research study into the causes of the summer riots in England in 2011. He analysed the mechanisms which led to both the violence and its rapid spread from the capital to other major towns and cities in Britain.

Winners 2014
  • The Investigative Reporting Award

In 2013 Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh and Yeganeh Torbati received the Investigative Award for Assets of the Ayatollah, published by Reuters, United Kingdom.

  • The Distinguished Writing Award

In 2013 the Distinguished Writing Award went to Sergey Khazov for his pieces "Forbidden Islam”, “Vietnam Town” and “The man in orange”, published by The New Times magazine, Russian Federation.

  • The Commentator Award

The Commentator Award went to Boris Dežulović in 2013 for his piece “Vukovar: a Life-Size Monument to the Dead City”", published by Globus, Croatia.

  • The Innovation Award

The Innovation Award of 2013 went to Espen Sandli, Linn Kongsli Hillestad and Ola Strømman for their piece “Null CTRL”, published by Dagbladet, Norway.

  • The Special Award

In 2013 Yavuz Baydar received the Special Award for his work as ombudsman. His columns were censored. The award is a symbol of support for his fight for a free press. In the same year, Editor Alan Rusbridger from The Guardian and editor Wolfgang Buchner from Der Spiegel also received a special award for their persistence and courage in publishing the NSA stories.

Winners 2015
  • The Distinguished Writing Award

The Distinguished Writing Award went to Elena Kostyuchenko for her piece Your husband voluntarily went under fire, published by Novaya Gazeta, Russian Federation

  • Winner of The Innovation Award

The Innovation Award went to the team behind The Migrants’ Files: Surveying migrants’ deaths at Europe’s door: Nicolas Kayser-Bril, Jacopo Ottaviani, Sylke Gruhnwald, Jean-Marc Manach, Jens Finnäs, Daniele Grasso, Ekaterina Stavroula, Alessio Cimarelli, Andrea Nelson Mauro and Alice Kohli. The Migrants Files were published by The Migrants' Files, Italy, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Spain, Greece

  • Winner of The Investigative Reporting Award

The Investigative Reporting Award went to Ander Izagirre for his work How to produce dead guerrillas, published by El País, Spain

  • Winner of The Commentator Award

The Commentator Award went to Nick Cohen for The Cowardice of Nigel Farage, published by The Observer, United Kingdom

  • Winner of The Special Award

The Special Award was given to The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, to founders Paul Radu, Drew Sullivan and a team of amounts others 2015 nominee Miranda Patrucić

Winners 2016
  • Winner of The Commentator Award

The Commentator Award went to Gideon Rachman for his Gideon Rachman Commentary

  • The Distinguished Writing Award

The Distinguished Writing Award went to Justyna Kopinska for her work: Fear – Sick Ward

  • Winner of The Innovation Award

The Innovation Award went to the team behind Killing and Dying for Allah – Five Portuguese Members of Islamic State: Raquel Moleiro, Hugo Franco and Joana Beleza:

  • Winner of The Investigative Reporting Award

The Investigative Reporting Award went to Marion Quillard for her article: Que celles qui ont été violées lèvent la main

  • Winner of The Special Award

The Special Award was given to three projects: Amrai Coen and Henning Sussebach for their Im Gelobten Land; Gert van Langendonck: Op naar Europa and Anders Fjellberg and Tomm W. Christiansen with Våtdraktmysteriet

Winners 2017
Christiaan Triebert (2018)
  • The Distinguished Writing Award

The Distinguished Writing Award went to Felix Hutt, Dialika Neufeld and Claas Relotius for their respective works: 71 Lives, Step-uncle Sam and The Story of Ahmed and Alin

  • Winner of The Innovation Award

The Innovation Award went to Bellingcat journalist Christiaan Triebert for The Turkish Coup through the Eyes of its Plotters

  • Winner of The Investigative Reporting Award

The Investigative Reporting Award went to the Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CIJS) for their articles on corruption and crime.

  • Winner of The Commentator Award

The Commentator Award went to Fintan O'Toole for his Irish Times, Observer and Guardian columns on the Brexit.

  • Winner of The Special Award

The Special Award honoured the impressive quality of young journalists entering their work this year and was given to Irina Tacu, Ana Maria Ciobanu, Andreea Giuclea, Christian Lupsa and Oana Sandu for their article Colectiv

Winners 2018
  • Winner of the Distinguished Reporting Award

The Distinguished Reporting Award went to Michael Obert for his reportage The Human Captor

  • Winner of The Innovation Award

The Innovation Award went to Bureau Local, a project set op by Megan Lucero, Maeve McClenaghan, Gareth Davies, Charles Boutaud and Kirsty Styles

  • Winner of The Investigative Reporting Award

The Investigative Reporting Award went to Stéphane Horel and Stéphane Foucart for their Monsanto Papers

  • Winner of The Opinion Award

The Opinion Award went to Dragan Bursać from Bosnia for his article The third shooting of the boy Petar from Konjic

  • Winner of The Special Award

The Special Award went to Ida Nyegård Espersen from Denmark for her This crime only requires poverty, internet, and a distant buyer

Winners 2019
  • Winner of The Distinguished Reporting Award

The Distinguished Reporting Award went to Katrin Kuntz, Marian Blasberg, and Christoph Scheuermann for their Fifty-Six Days of Separation

  • Winner of The Innovation Award

The Innovation Award went to Guillermo Abril and Carlos Spottorno for their graphic novel Palmyra, the other side

  • Winner of The Investigative Reporting Award

The Investigative Reporting Award went to Christo Grozev, Roman Dobrokhotov, and Daniel Romein for their Unmasking the Salisbury Poisoning Suspects: A Four-Part Investigation

  • Winner of The Opinion Award

The Opinion Award went to Madeleine Schwartz for The end of Atlanticism: has Trump killed the ideology that won the cold war?

  • Winner of The Special Award

The Special Award went to the team and partners of Forbidden Stories for their project Forbidden Stories

Winners 2020
  • Winner of The Distinguished Reporting Award

The Distinguished Reporting Award went to Isobel Cockerell for her piece "The Uyghur women fighting China’s surveillance state", published by Coda Media.[4]

  • Winner of The Innovation Award

The Innovation Award was given to Romanian non-profit media organisation Decât o Revistă for their Transylvanian pop-up newsroom.[5]

  • Winner of The Investigative Reporting Award

The Investigative Reporting Award went to Norwegian journalists Annemarte Moland, Even Kjølleberg, Ruben Solvang for their article "Trigger Warning". It was published by NRK.[6]

  • Winner of The Opinion Award

The Opinion Award was given to Beata Balogová for her article "How We Stopped Being Comrades", published by SME, Slovakia.[7]

  • Winner of The Special Award

The Special Award went to BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina, for their reporting about justice issues and war crimes.[8]

References
  1. Greenslade, Roy (24 May 2012). "Media foundations launch European Press Prize". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  2. "Uitreiking European Press Prize 2020 volledig online / Villamedia". www.villamedia.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  3. "Mediehuse stifter europæisk Pulitzer-pris" (in Danish). Politiken. Archived from the original on 27 May 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  4. DemDigest (11 June 2020). "Fighting China's Surveillance State wins award for Coda". Democracy Digest. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  5. DoR, Decât o Revistă (11 June 2020). "DoR after the quarantine: a report". Medium. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  6. Isachsen, Henriette Bertheussen (11 June 2020). "NRK vant prestisjefylt europeisk pris for avsløring av selvskadingsnettverk". NRK (in Norwegian). Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  7. "Former Slovak Spectator editor-in-chief first Slovak to win the European Press Prize". The Slovak Spectator. 11 June 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  8. "BIRN Wins European Press Prize for Justice Reporting". Balkan Insight. 11 June 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
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