Megan Clement

Megan Clement was selected for the 2024 Shortlist with Women on the Run From Abusers Face Being Returned From Denmark to Syria

Megan Clement is a journalist who focuses on gender inequality, migration and other human rights issues. Her reporting has appeared in The Guardian, CNN, Bloomberg, The Sydney Morning Herald, Al Jazeera, WIRED and New Lines, among other publications. Megan edits Impact, a bilingual newsletter covering feminist movements and women’s rights worldwide. She also teaches journalism at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University. Megan is a co-founder of The Gender Beat, a collective of journalists who advocate for increased and improved coverage of gender inequality.

She is the inaugural winner of the Island Magazine Nonfiction Prize. In 2018, she won an ILO media award for her editing of a piece investigating the conditions of migrant workers in Gulf states. Her memoir, Desire Paths, will be released in 2025. She lives in Montreuil, France.

The Pylos Shipwreck

‘The Pylos Shipwreck’ was selected for the 2024 Shortlist with The Pylos Shipwreck

The joint investigation by the Greek investigative outlet Solomon, Forensis, the German public broadcaster StrgF/ARD, and the British newspaper The Guardian revealed how the deadliest migrant shipwreck in recent history happened as a result of the actions taken by the Greek Coast Guard. It also reveals inconsistencies in the Greek authorities’ official accounts.

The investigation took an in-depth look into the events surrounding the loss of the fishing trawler Adriana on 14 June 2023 some 50 nautical miles off Pylos, in south-western Greece, killing over 600 migrants who had left Libya some days earlier.

Over 20 interviews were made with survivors, and court documents and coastguard sources were looked into. The journalists and researchers examined also and analyzed data from the coastguard’s log and testimony of the coast guard vessel’s captain, as well as from flight paths, maritime traffic data, satellite imagery and videos taken by nearby shipping vessels and other sources.

Solomon: Stavros Malichudis, Iliana Papangeli, Corina Petridi

Forensis: Stefanos Levidis, Christina Varvia, Georgia Skartadou, Andreas Makas, Ebrahem Farooqui, Dimitra Andritsou, Peter Polack, Eyal Weizman, Jasper Humpert, Miriam Rainer, Salma Barakat, Zac Ioannidis, Elizabeth Breiner

StrgF/ARD: Armin Ghassim, Sulaiman Tadmory, Timo Robben, Sebastian Heidelberger

The Guardian: Giorgos Christides, Katy Fallon, Lydia Emmanouilidou, and Julian Busch