A guide to the European Press Prize at the IJF

From April 16 to April 21, we will attend the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, the most renowned journalistic event in Europe. Many journalists and organizations that are part of our Community will be there, as speakers on different panels, or hosting their networking events.

Here is a non-comprehensive guide to Prize-related panels and events at the IJF 2024. If you are not mentioned, contact us and we will add you to the list.

With Natalia Antelava

• Revolutionizing news in the digital age: transformative live journalism and sustainable revenue
• Leading a newsroom in the world of AI
• Disarming disinformation: how leading international editors are responding to information pollution in a pivotal year for democracy

With Ismail Einashe

• Protecting victims: lessons learned from reporting on human trafficking

With Bashar Deeb

• Investigating migrant shipwrecks

With Jakub Gornicky

• Eastern Europe: how to adapt editorial coverage with elections under threat?
• For the record: archives, authoritarians and the media

With Anna Gornicka

• Art and journalism: why fiction may be the missing component to telling the truth

With Gabriel Geiger

• Sigma Award winners: investigating stories hiding in plain sight

With Juliette Garside and Daniel Howden

• How to negotiate hacked and leaked data
• How to fund independent investigative journalism

With Maria Exner

• A lighthouse for journalism: the Publix building in Berlin

With Mick Ter Reehorst

• Cross-border journalism in practice: creating connections in the audience and in the newsroom 

With Olga Rudenko

• Accountability in real time: how we built a war crimes investigations unit
• Is truth the first casualty of war? How we stand for journalistic freedoms in Ukraine

With Laurent Richard, Miranda Patrucic, Bastian Obermayer and Dmitry Muratov

• How can we pursue the investigations of silenced journalists?
• Three years after the Pegasus Project, is regulation in sight or further away than ever?

With Paul Radu

• Floodlight: fiction in the public interest
• For the record: archives, authoritarians and the media

With Andreas Petho

• How does modern propaganda work? A warning from Hungary

With Cristian Lupsa

• The Recorder model: making investigations sexy and necessary
• European Press Prize in conversation: lightning talks and 2024 shortlist announcement

With Nikolas Leontopoulos

• SLAPPstick: how not to fall over from frivolous lawsuits 

With Joanna Krawczyk

• The recovery of Ukraine is impossible without the recovery of the Ukrainian media

With Kelly Walls

• Trained to death: what’s the alternative for enabling great news strategies?

With Nick Waters

• War crimes investigations and accountability using open source techniques

2024 Shortlist Announcement

We will also host a panel with the title European Press Prize in conversation: lightning talks and 2024 shortlist announcement, during which we will also announce the European Press Prize 2024.