Shortlist 2026

The
Distinguished
Reporting
Award 2026 Nominees

Dying for gold: Who killed the miners of Buffelsfontein?

— by Liam Taylor, published by The Economist's 1843, United Kingdom

Killing for the photo

— by Barbara Matejčić, published by Novosti (Croatia), BIRN (Serbia)

Lost generation: Russia’s mephedrone teen crisis

— by Anastasiia Platonova, published by BBC News Russian, BBC Eye, International

— by Andrea Backhaus, Bastian Berbner, Jannis Carmesin, Simone Gaul, Constanze Kainz, Alicia Kleer, Mounia Meiborg, Pia Rauschenberger, Marlon Saadi, Helena Schmidt, Annabel Wahba, published by DIE ZEIT, Germany

What the wounds are telling us

— by Maud Effting, Willem Feenstra, published by De Volkskrant, the Netherlands

The
Innovation
Award 2026 Nominees

The Forever Lobbying Project

— by Stéphane Horel, Raphaëlle Aubert, Luc Martinon, Sarah Pilz, Daniel Drepper, Catharina Felke, Johannes Edelhoff, Nadja Tausche, Jana Heck, Andrea Hoferichter, Lea Busch, Gianluca Liva, Elisabetta Tola, Marco Boscolo, Anna Violato, Marta Frigerio, Laura Fazzini, Eurydice Bersi, Ana Tudela, Antonio Delgado, Staffan Dahllöf, Zuzana Vlasatá, Tiina Lundell, Rachel Salvidge, Leana Hosea, Maj-Britt Horlacher, Felicitas Flohr, Emilie Rosso, Romane Bonnemé, Emiel Woutersen, Bijou van der Borst, Simon Dequeker, Lisa van der Velden, Jasper Been, Matej Zwitter, Samo Demsar, Daniel Värjö, Aleksandra Pogorzelska, Tarjei Leer-Salvesen, Zeynep Sentek, Craig Shaw, Cemre Demircioglu, Jose Miguel Calatayud, Leopold Salzenstein, Brigitte Alfter, published by Le Monde (France); RTBF (Belgium); Denik Referendum (Czech Republic); Investigative Reporting Denmark (Denmark); Yle (Finland); France télévisions (France); NDR, WDR, Süddeutsche Zeitung, MIT Technology Review Germany (Germany); Reporters United (Greece); Radar Magazine, L'Espresso, Facta.eu, Il Bo Live, Lavialibera (Italy); Investico, De Groene Amsterdammer, Financieele Dagblad, Arena for Journalism in Europe (Netherlands); Klassekampen (Norway); Ostro (Slovenia); Datadista (Spain); Sveriges Radio, Dagens ETC (Sweden); SRF (Switzerland); The Black Sea (Turkey), The Guardian (United Kingdom)

How companies avoid inclusion – and even save money by doing it

— by Kristina Kobl, Nikolai Prodöhl, Lisa Kreutzer, Emilia Garbsch, Natalie Sablowski, Sabrina Winter, Sabrina Ebitsch, Theodor Ahrens, published by andererseits (Austria), Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), FragDenStaat (Germany)

Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow

— by Pamela Duncan, Raphael Hernandes, Elena Morresi, Pablo Gutiérrez, Garry Blight, Lydia McMullan, Robyn Vinter, published by The Guardian, United Kingdom

Looking for love and sex on Tinder, soldiers endanger national security

— by Dimitri Tokmetzis, Martijn Reuvers, Sebastiaan Brommersma, published by Follow the Money, the Netherlands

Mole or cancer? The algorithm that gets one in three melanomas wrong and erases patients with dark skin

— by Ángela Bernardo, María Álvarez del Vayo, Carmen Torrecillas, Adrián Maqueda, published by Civio, Spain

The
Investigative
Reporting
Award 2026 Nominees

The Brother D conspiracy – Exposing an international child abuse cover-up that left children in Africa exposed to a predator for decades

— by Michael O'Farrell, published by The Irish Mail on Sunday, Ireland

DNA for sale? The untold story of Greece’s newborn screening scandal

— by Christoforos Kasdaglis, Despina Papageorgiou, published by Reporters United, Efimerida ton Syntakton (EfSyn), Greece

Scam empire

— by coordinators Joachim Dyfvermark (SVT)⁩, Antonio Baquero (OCCRP), Kelly Bloss (OCCRP), Lawrence Marzouk (OCCRP) and 60+ journalists, published by The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (International) and SVT (Sweden), with AmaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism (South Africa), Amphora Media (Malta), Berlingske (Denmark), Bird (Bulgaria), CBC/Radio-Canada (Canada), CIReN (Cyprus), Context.ro (Romania), Delfi (Estonia), Der Spiegel (Germany), Der Standard (Austria), Follow The Money (Netherlands), Infolibre (Spain), Investico (Netherlands), IrpiMedia (Italy), iFact (Georgia), Le Monde (France), Paper Trail Media (Germany), Qurium (Sweden), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Ukrainian service (Ukraine), Re:Baltica (Latvia), Reporter.lu (Luxembourg), Siena.lt (Lithuania), Studio Monitori (Georgia), De Tijd (Belgium), The Guardian (U.K.), Times of Malta (Malta), The Governance Monitoring Center (Georgia), VG (Norway), YLE (Finland), ZDF (Germany)

Scrap wars: How child labour and conflict feed Turkey steel boom

— by Sofia Cherici, Andrés Mourenza, Mohammed Bassiki, Doğu Eroğlu, published by The New Arab (United Kingdom), SIRAJ – Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism (France), El País (Spain)

Surveillance secrets

— by Gabriel Geiger, Emmanuel Freudenthal, Crofton Black, Riccardo Coluccini, Bastian Obermayer, Elisa Simantke, Sophia Bauman, Maria Retter, Hannes Munzinger, Lea Hruschka, Lorenzo Bagnoli, Omer Benjakob, Peter Berger, Christian Nicolai Bjørke, Christo Buschek, Branislav Grković, Bojana Jovanović, Damien Leloup, Laurin Lorenz, Michael Montgomery, Michael Nikbakhsh, Kjersti Nipen, Bernhard Odehnal, Andreas Proschofsky, Raymundus Rikang, Christian Rohde, Marcel Rosenbach, Daniel Sager, Fabian Schmid, Zuzana Šotová, Martin Untersinger, Oliver Zihlmann, published by Lighthouse Reports (the Netherlands), Paper Trail Media (Germany), Der Spiegel (Germany), Der Standard (Austria), Die Dunkelkammer (Austria), Haaretz (Israel), Investigace.cz (Czech Republic), IrpiMedia (Italy), KRIK (Serbia), Le Monde (France), NRK (Norway), Reveal / Mother Jones (USA), Tamedia (Switzerland), Tempo (Indonesia), ZDF (Germany)

The
Migration
Journalism
Award 2026 Nominees

A daring escape from China to the U.S. via the Darién Gap

— by Marian Blasberg, Christoph Giesen, published by Der Spiegel, Germany

Hamshika’s puzzle

— by Hamshika Krishnamoorthy, Hannah Kirmes-Daly, Leon Spring, Benja Zehr, published by Al Jazeera, International

Mines, memory, and migration on Bosnia’s perilous border

— by Nidžara Ahmetašević, Andrew Connelly, Maryam Ashrafi, published by Inkstick Media, International

My parents, my heroes

— by Kim Son Hoang, published by Der Standard, Austria

Unaccompanied children sleep on the floor in shifts in Greece’s ‘Model Camps’. The EU is aware

— by Lydia Emmanouilidou, Corina Petridi, Luděk Stavinoha, Stavros Malichudis, May Bulman, Iliana Papangeli, Galatia Iatraki, Lorenz Naegeli, Osama Abdullah, Lukas Haeuptli, published by Solomon (Greece), Republik (Switzerland), WAV Recherchekollektiv (Switzerland)

The
Public
Discourse
Award 2026 Nominees