Merete Skogrand

Merete Skogrand was selected for the 2020 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Inger’s Last Wish.’

Merete Skogrand (36) has worked for the Dagbladet, Norway’s second biggest newspaper, for the last 11 years. She started as a journalist in the culture and news departments, and has hosted several shows for Dagbladet TV. She then led the Culture department for four years, before becoming head of reportage for Magasinet, Dagbladet’s award winning feature section. Merete lives in Nittedal, Norway.

Ismail Einashe

Ismail Einashe was selected for the 2020 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘The Bangladeshi shopkeepers who took on Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia’.

Ismail Einashe is a journalist and writer covering migration and human rights. He has written for The Guardian, BBC, The Sunday Times and Foreign Policy, among others. Currently, he is a Senior Journalist at Lost in Europe, a project investigating the disappearance of child migrants in Europe. Last year, he was an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow where he reported on China’s role in Africa, focusing on Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. Einashe co-edited the book Lost in Media: Migrant Perspectives and the Public Sphere, a collection of essays on the representations of migrants and refugees in the European media.