Paavo Teittinen

Paavo Teittinen won the 2022 European Press Prize Investigative Reporting Award with ‘The investigation is closed.’

Paavo Teittinen is an award-winning investigative journalist for the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, one of the largest newspapers in the Nordics. His work has exposed abuses of power and social injustice, often focusing on structural issues hidden from public view. Teittinen has written about human trafficking, sexual and domestic abuse, honour-based violence, severe flaws in how the police investigate serious crimes, the mistreatment of asylum seekers, predatory payday lending, charity fraud, medical malpractice, and other issues. His work has led to, for example, new legislation helping victims of human trafficking, police reforms, criminal investigations and reviews by the Chancellor of Justice, which acts as the supreme guardian of the law.

Nidžara Ahmetašević

Nidžara Ahmetašević was selected for the 2022 European Press Prize shortlist for ‘The world turned its back on Afghans a long time ago.’

Nidžara Ahmetašević is a journalist, editor and researcher from Sarajevo. She has been working in the media for over 20 years. Her work has been featured in various media in the Balkans, as well as The New Yorker, Al Jazeera English online, The Observer, The Independent on Sunday, the International Justice Tribune, The Guardian, etc. She was a speaker at TEDx Talk in Krakow, Poland, and Personal Democracy Forum 2017, Gdansk, Poland. Nidžara holds a PhD from the University of Graz, Austria. Her fields of interest are democratisation and media development in a post-conflict society, hate speech, transitional justice, media and political propaganda, human rights and migrations. She has received AHDA Columbia University Fellowship, Chevening Scholarship, Ron Brown Fellowship for Young Professionals, UNICEF Keizo Obuchi Award, Annanberg – Oxford Summer Media Policy Summer Institute, Fellowship.  Since 2016, she is working as regional editor for the online magazine Kosovo 2.0.