Helene Bienvenu

Helene Bienvenu was selected for the 2021 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Sisters of Europe.’

Helene Bienvenu is a journalist based in Budapest, focused on telling about ‘the unknown and the little known’ covering Central Europe and Eastern Europe at large, sometimes even stretching to Detroit, MI (where she carried an interactive documentary: www.diy-manifesto.com). She works for French and English speaking media such as the New-York Times, Deutsche Welle, Al-Jazeera, LaCroix, La Tribune de Genève.

Cátia Bruno

Cátia Bruno was selected for the 2021 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Sisters of Europe.’

Cátia Bruno is a 28-year-old journalist based in Lisbon, her hometown. She graduated in 2011 with a BA in Journalism and has worked as a staff writer for two national newspapers in the country: the prestigious Expresso and the innovative i. As a freelance journalist and fixer, she has collaborated for international publications like The New York Times, Roads & Kingdoms, GlobalPost, New Eastern Europe, De Correspondent and the EU Observer. She is currently working as a feature writer for Observador and contributor for NewsMavens. She has reported from Greece, Sweden, Poland, Kaliningrad and Abu Dhabi as well as Portugal. The issues Cátia cares most about are human rights, inequality and social change.