Katia Patin

Katia Patin was selected for the 2023 Shortlist with Poland’s ministry of memory spins the Holocaust.

Katia Patin is a multimedia journalist based between Washington, D.C. and Istanbul. She is the producer of Generation Gulag, a documentary series uncovering the impact of Russia’s campaign to rewrite the history of Gulag survivors, shortlisted for the One World Media Award in 2020; and of Jailed for a Like, six films telling the stories of Russians who have been prosecuted or imprisoned for their posts on social media, which was shortlisted for the European Press Prize in 2018. Her journalism has appeared in TIME Magazine, the Guardian, NBC, the Atlantic among other publications.

Katja Artsiomenka

Katja Artsiomenka was selected for the 2023 Shortlist with The Experience of Powerlessness Changes Everything.

Katja Artsiomenka is radio documentary journalist and a professor for Journalism at HMKW University of Applied Sciences for Media, Communication and Management at Cologne. Since April 2021 Katja Artsiomenka hosts “To the point –Debate from Berlin”, a political talkshow about Belarus for Belarus by the Deutsche Welle. She came to Germany from Belarus in 2004. For her journalist work she was named the European CIVIS-Media-Award.