Beata Balogová

Beata Balogová has won the 2020 European Press Prize Opinion Award with ‘How We Stopped Being Comrades.’

Beata Balogová is the editor-in-chief of SME, a major daily and news site in Slovakia. Prior to joining SME, between 2003 and 2014, Beata served as editor-in-chief of Slovakia’s English-language weekly The Slovak Spectator.

Beata became a journalist at the age of eighteen and since then she has been loyal to the profession and mission. She graduated from the School of Journalism of Columbia University in New York. Beata was also a Fulbright scholar appointed to the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri Columbia in 1994.

An ethnic Hungarian living in Slovakia, Beata writes columns and commentaries on politics, societal changes, populism and human rights.

Beata also serves as vice chair of the executive board of the International Press Institute (IPI) advocating media freedom in the Central European region.

Andreea Giuclea

Andreea Giuclea was selected for the 2020 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘More goals, finer ankles.’

Andreea Giuclea is a Romanian sports reporter passionate about the inner lives of athletes and the systems they perform in. She covers this topic for Lead.ro, a daily sports website, and writes in-depth stories for the quarterly narrative magazine DoR (Decât o Revistă). She wrote a book about the struggles and life lessons of Romanian athletes and sends a monthly newsletter focusing on women’s sports and gender inequality in sports.

She was part of a team of reporters at DoR who won the 2017 European Press Prize Special Award with Colectiv, the story of a deadly fire in a Bucharest club, and has worked for the past couple of years for the international The Power of Storytelling conference in Bucharest.