Shortlist 2025
Distinguished
Reporting
Award 2025 Nominees
Did Something Happen to Mom When She Was Young?
— by Jessica Bateman, published by POLITICO, United States
Journalist or Russian Spy? The Strange Case of Pablo González
— by Shaun Walker, published by The Guardian, United Kingdom
Marwan Barghouti, the World’s Most Important Prisoner
— by Nicolas Pelham, published by The Economist's 1843 magazine, United Kingdom
René Damgaard Is Saying a Final Goodbye to Life and to His Niece
— by Line Vaaben, published by Politiken, Denmark
The Poet’s Army
— by Guillaume Pajot, published by Revue XXI, France
Innovation
Award 2025 Nominees
Norway in Red, White, and Grey
— by Mads Nyborg Støstad, Ruben Solvang, Su Thet Mon, Anne Linn Kumano-Ensby, Patrick da Silva Sæther, Kari Anne Gisetstad Andersen, Sjur Seibt, published by NRK, Norway
Road to Redemption: How Israel’s War Against Hamas Turned Into a Springboard for Jewish Settlement in Gaza
— by Yarden Michaeli, Avi Scharf, Idit Frenkel, Asi Oren, Uri Talshir, published by Haaretz, Israel
Segregated by the Wheel of Inequality in Spain: How Impoverished Neighbourhoods Become Hotspots for the Lower Educated
— by Raúl Sánchez, Victòria Oliveres, Ainhoa Díez, published by elDiario.es, Spain
This Yellow Glyphosate Map Reveals Where Farmers in the Netherlands Spray the Controversial Herbicide
— by Jan Daalder, Collin van Rooij, published by Follow the Money, RTV Drenthe, NH Nieuws, De Gelderlander, RTV Rijnmond, Omroep Zeeland, De Limburger, De Onderzoeksredactie Brabant (BN DeStem, Brabant Dagblad, Eindhovens Dagblad),
Under Surveillance. How Location Data Jeopardizes German Security
— by Katharina Brunner, Rebecca Ciesielski, Ingo Dachwitz, Sebastian Meineck, Maximilian Zierer, published by Bayerischer Rundfunk/BR24, netzpolitik.org, tagesschau/ARD, Germany
Investigative
Reporting
Award 2025 Nominees
Bismarck’s Hut in the Forest – The most absurd tax haven in Germany
— by Aiko Kempen, Laurenz Schreiner, Finn Starken, published by FragDenStaat, ZDF Magazin Royale, Germany
Deadly Prices – How Big Pharma Feeds Inequality in Europe
— by Christina Berndt, Eurydice Bersi, Lorenzo Buzzoni, Ingeborg Eliassen, Markus Grill, Maria Maggiore, Leila Minano, Maxence Peigné, Achim Pollmeier, Manuel Rico, Piret Reiljan, Leonard Scharfenberg, Nico Schmidt, Harald Schumann, Ralf Wiegand, published by Investigate Europe (Europe), Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Il Fatto Quotidiano (Italy), infoLibre (Spain), EUobserver (Europe), arte journal (France/Germany), Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland), Investigace.cz (Czech Republic), Partizán (Hungary), Investigatívne centrum Jána Kuciaka (Slovakia), Ostro (Slovenia), Der Standard (Austria), Monitor/ARD/tagesschau (Germany), Deutschlandfunk (Germany), Reporters United (Greece), EfSyn (Greece), The Journal (Ireland), openDemocracy (UK), British Medical Journal (UK), Trouw (Netherlands), Yle (Finland), Delfi (Latvia), 15min (Lithuania), EestiEkspress (Estonia), Klassenkampen (Norway), Tagesanzeiger (Switzerland), International
From Child Labour in the Mines – To Your Electric Car
— by Staffan Lindberg, Magnus Wennman, Sofia Boström, published by Aftonbladet, Sweden
Serving Moscow
— by Măriuța Nistor, Natalia Zaharescu, published by Ziarul de Gardă, Moldova
The Silent Battle Between Putin and the West Over a Crucial Oil Pipeline
— by Carola Houtekamer, Karlijn Kuijpers, published by NRC, The Netherlands
Migration
Journalism
Award 2025 Nominees
3,000 Nautical Miles of Hope
— by Marian Blasberg, published by Der Spiegel, Germany
“Because if I Die, No One Will Care.” Children’s Day at the Border
— by Agnieszka Rodowicz, published by Oko.press, Poland
Growing Up ‘Non-Western’ in Denmark’s Nanny State
— by Gabriela Galvin, published by New Lines Magazine, International
The Asylum King
— by Mark Wilding, published by Prospect Magazine, Liberty Investigates, United Kingdom
The Brutal Truth Behind Italy’s Migrant Reduction: Beatings and Rape by EU-Funded Forces in Tunisia
— by Mark Townsend, published by The Guardian, United Kingdom
Public
Discourse
Award 2025 Nominees
A Celebration of Selflessness
— by Hanno Rauterberg, published by DIE ZEIT, Germany
Life and Death in Putin’s Gulag
— by Arkady Ostrovsky, published by The Economist's 1843 magazine, United Kingdom
Memory Machines
— by Jessica Traynor, published by The Dial, The Guardian, Aftenposten, The New Hibernia Review, Ireland
Mothers at the End of the World
— by Katarzyna Boni, published by Książki, Poland
The Immense Waste – UCLouvain and Women
— by Catherine Joie, Quentin Noirfalisse, published by Médor, Belgium