To watch: Video portraits of the 2019 winners

On May 23, the 5 winners of the European Press Prize 2019 were announced at the official 2019 Award Ceremony in Warsaw.

To celebrate these exceptional winning investigations and reports, we partnered with Are We Europe to create video portraits of each of the winners this year. In these video portraits, the winners share the stories behind their award winning work, and the methods that were used to create them.

Winners: Katrin Kuntz, Marian Blasberg and Christoph Scheuermann (Der Spiegel)

Winners: Guillermo Abril and Carlos Spottorno (El País Semanal, SZ Magazin)

Winners: Madeleine Schwartz (The Guardian)

Winners: Christo Grozev, Roman Dobrokhotov (Bellingcat)

Winners: Forbidden Stories

Credits: Nestor Romero Clemente, Luke Brabazon, Are We Europe, Jan Pfitzer

Watch the 2019 Aftermovie

We proudly present the official Aftermovie of the European Press Prize 2019 Award Ceremony.

As one of the laureates in the video puts it: “We are all from individual countries, working together to create something bigger.”

The 5 winners of the European Press Prize 2019 are found here.

Special thanks to our hosts at Gazeta Wyborcza and our members: The Guardian Foundation, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Vereniging Veronica, The Irish Times Trust Limited, Jyllands-Posten Foundation, Agora Foundation, Politiken Foundation, Media Development Investment Fund, Stichting Democratie en Media, ANP and De Balie.

– Produced by Néstor Romero Clemente and Are We Europe.
– Creative Assistant: Christina Desylla
– Interviewer: Sharon Zervaas
– Music: Haku Yeo