In February, a ship in Turkey made its way to Europe. Around 180 refugees were on board hoping for a better life. The ship sank just off Italy’s coast, although European authorities had spotted it hours earlier. Kristiana Ludwig, Lena Kampf and Simon Sales Prado are in the for their reconstruction of this case “The Lost Boat”. South German newspaper was awarded the Reporter Prize in the Investigation category on Monday evening. Tobias Haberl won for the article “Among Gentiles” about his Catholic faith SZ Magazine in the essay category.
The journalism prizes were awarded in a Berlin nightclub, a full house despite the frozen rail traffic, which may be due to well-researched remaining trains or because journalism is, at heart, a Berlin affair. Best local report: Niklas Liebetrau’s text “There’s someone floating in the water!” about the drowned people in the White Lake in Pankow, published in the Berlin newspaper at the weekend.
So the industry sat on folding chairs in the club, there was beer, wine, and jokes (many thanks to moderator Jenny Kallenbrunnen, who says she writes satire and comedy “for people who have more money than ideas”). The jury, for its part, identified even more outstanding stories on the subject of death by drowning: In the reportage category, the award-winning Moritz Aisslinger won with his text “At the mercy of the storm”. Time. In it he uses a sinking ship to tell us about the depths of global shipping.
Sorry for asking if he really won?
Elisa von Hof was named the best interview for her Mirror-Conversation with Helga Schubert about her new book, Love and the Legacy of the GDR. Stefan Eberlein won with “We have no knowledge of this – The case of Khaled el Masri, the CIA and the German constitutional state” won the prize in the podcast category and numerous hearts in the audience when he – connected to the stage on the phone – said that this was his first podcast and sorry for asking, did he really win?
According to the jury, the best sports report went to Andreas Bock for his article “Energy Transition”. 11 friends written about football fans’ resistance to rights. A team of eight Corrective won in the data journalism category with research into the situation in women’s shelters. For their project “Our Trash in Space” a seven-person team Time won the multimedia category, and the best “free report” was also published in the weekly newspaper, written by Angela Köckritz. She tells in “Is it good for the soul?” of psychedelic drugs and all the longings that lead to them. “The thing in my head” by Andreas Große Halbuer in Focus about a risky operation for people with Parkinson’s disease, which the author himself decided on, won in the science report category. Maja Beckers was awarded for the best cultural report in “Abgehoben”. time online she reports from the largest private jet trade fair in Europe.
The special prize of the Reporters:innenforum was Stanys Bujakera awarded, the Congolese journalist is a correspondent for the magazine Jeune Afrique and the Reuters news agency in Kinshasa. He was arrested in prison in September for “spreading rumors” and “spreading false news” and faces 15 years in prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His uncle accepted the award.
The Reporter:innen-Forum is an association that has been honoring journalists since 2009. This year, 952 works were submitted and evaluated by juries made up of newspaper journalists, television people, actors, scientists and entrepreneurs.