European Press Prize

☕ It’s Monday. Perfect time to share that piece you’re proud of!

Entries for the European Press Prize 2026 are open. Journalists from across Europe can submit their best work before 14 December 2025.

Learn more and enter: www.europeanpressprize.com/before-you-e...

Iniciamos con Túnez. Mark Townsend, presenta "Brutal Truth Behind Italy’s Migrant Reduction: Beatings and Rape by EU-Funded Forces in Tunisia", publicado en @theguardian.com y runner-up 2025 de @europeanpressprize.bsky.social. www.europeanpressprize.com/article/the-...

💬 Our Executive Director, Jennifer Athanasiou-Prins, puts it best: "Submitting your work to the @europeanpressprize.bsky.social means joining a community of journalists committed to high journalistic standards..."

If you’ve created a story that deserves recognition, now’s the time to share it!

✨ The European Press Prize 2026 is open for entries!

We’re seeking the best journalism published over the past year — work that informs, inspires, & makes a difference. If you’ve written a piece you’re proud of, we want to see it!

🗓️ Submit before 14 Dec: www.europeanpressprize.com/before-you-e...

📆 From tomorrow onwards, we will be attending iMEdD - incubator for Media Education and Development’s International Journalism Forum in Athens. You can find us in the Forum’s Media Village to learn more about our work, or chat about possible partnerships or collaborations! 👋

#iMEdDIJF25

📆 From tomorrow onwards, we will be attending iMEdD - incubator for Media Education and Development’s International Journalism Forum in Athens. You can find us in the Forum’s Media Village to learn more about our work, or chat about possible partnerships or collaborations! 👋

#iMEdDIJF25

Myanmar Burning - European Press Prize Hi! Have you been reading one of our pieces? Continue [here]. Or click to discover more excellent journalism.

From our archives 📚

“Myanmar Burning” by Wa Lone & Kyaw Soe Oe was nominated for our 2019 Investigative Reporting Award. They spent over 1 year in prison for exposing the mass murder of Rohingya Muslims.

www.europeanpressprize.com/article/myan...

Full collection: www.reuters.com/investigates...

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👩‍💻 Interested in improving your data journalism skills? Our Laureate Adriana Homolova is launching an eight week mentorship programme at the end of October to help people do (better) data investigations. Sign up for it here: datafrosch.fun/mentorship

Buy Desire Paths by Megan Clement — Megan Clement Buy the acclaimed debut by Megan Clement Desire Paths published by Ultimo Press

Our 2024 Laureate Megan Clement wrote a memoir — a beautiful story about family, connection and the distance we will go to be with the ones we love. You can order her book on her website: www.meganclement.com/store/desire... and read a poignant excerpt here: www.thepersistent.com/megan-clemen...

BORN FREE - Mandela’s Generation of Hope - European Press Prize Read more about BORN FREE – Mandela’s Generation of Hope ›

From our archives 📚

The children born in South Africa right after apartheid are known as the born-free generation. Runner-Up for our 2020 Innovation Award, this piece looks into how free the born-frees truly are & how modern racism influences their lives.
www.europeanpressprize.com/article/born...

🙋 Who else is coming to the iMEdD International Journalism Forum 2025 later this month?

We’ll be in Athens, posted up at the Media Village, and also for a meeting of our Partners and Peers!

Let us know below if you’ll be there too 👇
forum.imedd.org/en/

How Orbán played Germany, Europe’s great power - European Press Prize In October 2017, important figures of German and international business and political life gathered at a reception in a glass-walled hall on one of the upper floors of Frankfurt’s tallest skyscraper.…

From our archives 📚

Nominated for our 2021 Distinguished Reporting Award, “How Orbán played Germany, Europe’s great power” reveals how the economic success of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary is heavily reliant on German companies who receive special treatment.

www.europeanpressprize.com/article/how-...

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The investigation is closed - European Press Prize A few years ago, in her home country of Thailand, Mali met a Finnish man who asked Mali and her daughter to move to Finland and live with him. Read more about The investigation is closed ›

From our archives 📚

Winner of our 2022 Investigative Reporting Award, this piece from Helsingin Sanomat looks into how the police investigate human trafficking, using individual stories to reveal how many are left without justice.

www.europeanpressprize.com/article/the-...

🏆 Today marks three months since we announced our Winners and Runners-Up at the 2025 Award Ceremony in Bari, Italy.

You can find the full list of Winners, Runners-Up, and Nominees here: www.europeanpressprize.com/shortlists/y...

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Myanmar Burning - European Press Prize Hi! Have you been reading one of our pieces? Continue [here]. Or click to discover more excellent journalism.

From our archives 📚

“Myanmar Burning” by Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oe was nominated for our 2019 Investigative Reporting Award. The pair spent over one year in prison for exposing the mass murder of Rohingya Muslims.

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Death Weapons: Inside a Teenage Terrorist Network - European Press Prize When Lukas F. walks onto the site of an abandoned army barracks in the summer of 2021 as part of his training to be a terrorist, he is 16 years old, a slender boy with dark hair.Read more about Death…

From our archives 📚

“Death Weapons: Inside a Teenage Terrorist Network”, Winner of our 2023 Investigative Reporting Award, reveals how a network of young neo-Nazis is setting up terrorist cells in Europe & the US in order to carry out armed attacks.

www.europeanpressprize.com/article/deat...

Year Report 2025 - European Press Prize As this year's season draws to a close we are delighted to publish our 2025 Year Report!

📘 Check out our 2025 Year Report for a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the work going on here at the European Press Prize!

This year we also take a deep dive into the key stats behind the season as well as highlights from throughout the year.

Read it here 🔽
www.europeanpressprize.com/year-report-...

Myanmar Burning - European Press Prize Hi! Have you been reading one of our pieces? Continue [here]. Or click to discover more excellent journalism.

From our archives 📚

Myanmar Burning, by Wa Lone & Kyaw Soe Oe was nominated for our 2019 Investigative Reporting Award. The pair spent over a year in prison for exposing the mass murder of Rohingya Muslims.
www.europeanpressprize.com/article/myan...

Full collection: www.reuters.com/investigates...

Reminder, we’ll be in Athens next week for the iMEdD International Journalism Forum 2025!

We’ll be posted up at the Media Village and also participating in a meeting of our Partners and Peers!

Let us know below if you’ll be there too 👇
forum.imedd.org/en/

Jury Report 2025 – The European Press Prize Each year, the European Press Prize Bureau team works hard to narrow down hundreds of submissions to our final list of Winners and Runners-Up. These process and the Jury's thoughts are outlined in…

Curious about how our Winners and Runners-Up are selected each year?

Learn more about that process and their thoughts about this year's Shortlist in our 2025 Jury Report 🔽
www.europeanpressprize.com/jury-report-...

The Sound of Bullets: The Killing of Colombian Journalist Abelardo Liz - European Press Prize When journalist Abelardo Liz was shot during a confrontation between soldiers and protesters at a land rights demonstration in Colombia in August 2020 he did not immediately drop his camera or stop…

From our archives 📚

On this day in 2020, journalist Abelardo Liz was killed in a confrontation between soldiers & protesters.

Bellingcat & Cerosetenta pieced together the last moments of his life to reveal inconsistencies in the army's account of events.
www.europeanpressprize.com/article/the-...

Brutalised Minsk: how Belarusian police beat protesters - European Press Prize Mediazona received access to data held by Belarus’ Investigative Committee. These data show that the minimum number of people who suffered violence during protests in August and September this year is...

Just over 5 years have passed since the 2020 Presidential Elections in Belarus and subsequent brutal crackdown on protestors.

To mark this, we take a look at the Winner of our 2021 Special Award: “Brutalised Minsk: how Belarusian police beat protesters”.
www.europeanpressprize.com/article/brut...

🙋 Who else is coming to the iMEdD International Journalism Forum 2025 in September?

We’ll be in Athens, posted up at the Media Village!

Let us know below if you’ll be there too 👇
forum.imedd.org/en/

📚 Earlier this year, members of our Community shared their perspectives on the future of journalism during our conference with Publix.

Check out what they had to say as the media industry continues down a path of major change ⬇️ www.europeanpressprize.com/crisis-or-op...

Year Report 2025 - European Press Prize As this year's season draws to a close we are delighted to publish our 2025 Year Report!

📘 In case you missed it: We recently published our 2025 Year Report!

This year, we reflect on the highlights and milestones of a very successful 2025 season!

Read it here: www.europeanpressprize.com/year-report-...

👋 We have just added this year's Winners, Runners-Up, and Nominees to our Bluesky starter pack of European Press Prize Laureates.

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Where the World Splits Apart - European Press Prize A travel along the border to Russia from Norway to Georgia, crossing eight nations, eight societies, eight stories. Along this journey, the author met young and elderly people, asked for their hopes a...

From our archives 📚

In “Where the World Splits Apart” – nominated for our 2024 Distinguished Reporting Award – @sussebach.bsky.social tells the stories of those he met during a journey through eight countries along the Russian border.

📷: Natalia Kepesz.
www.europeanpressprize.com/article/wher...

Year Report 2025 As this year’s season draws to a close we are delighted to publish our 2025 Year Report!

✉️ The latest issue of our newsletter is out now!

This month's edition is all about our 2025 Year Report.

You can read it here: mailchi.mp/europeanpres...

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YOJO - Young Journalists — YOJO - Young Journalists

There's still time to apply for the YOJO (Young Journalists) initiative, from our friends at iMEdD.

The programme offers recent graduates, aspiring journalists, and storytellers from around the world the opportunity to participate in a one- or two-year paid work placement in Athens.

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