Anna Myroniuk

Anna Myroniuk was selected as runner-up for the 2022 European Press Prize Investigative Reporting Award with ‘Huge quantities of Chinese cigarettes smuggled into Ukraine.’

Anna Myroniuk is a Ukrainian journalist based in Kyiv. She is a co-founder of the Kyiv Independent, an English-language media outlet reporting on Ukraine. She has worked as a journalist for around 10 years both in television and print. Anna has run investigative projects on human rights, healthcare and illicit trade. She investigated presidents and oligarchs. She reported from the Donbas front line during the hottest phase of the war there in 2014-2017, as well as from the COVID-19 front lines, such as an intensive care unit in the epicentre of the surge of coronavirus infections in Ukraine in 2021. She has written for Coda Story, OCCRP and Washington Post. Anna holds a Master in Investigative Journalism from the City University of London, is a Chevening Scholar, and is a finalist for the 2020 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award.

John Goetz

John Goetz won the 2022 European Press Prize Distinguished Reporting Award with ‘What Guantánamo made of them.’

John Goetz is an investigative journalist and filmmaker. His work has appeared in Der Spiegel, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Los Angeles Times, the Sunday Times, and The Guardian and his films have been shown on ARD, ARTE, Channel 4, MSNBC, DR and at film festivals around the world. The author of three books, Goetz has also worked as a producer at CBS’s “60 Minutes” and at the CBC’s “fifth estate”. As a staff journalist at Der Spiegel, he won Germany’s Nannen Award for his story about German war crimes in Afghanistan. In 2011, he joined the broadcaster NDR as Editor of Investigations and created the investigative cooperation between the Süddeutsche Zeitung and NDR. His film “Snowden’s Great Escape” won the best documentary award in 2015 from the German Television Academy. His 90-minute documentary “In Search of Monsters” about the men and women who tortured the former Guantanamo prisoner Mohamadou Slahi was recently featured in a “This American Life” episode and will be released in North America later in 2022.