Maldita.es CEO and co-founder Clara Jiménez Cruz moderated the event and interviewed Rudenko live in a conversation shaped by the importance of journalism in the context Ukraine has been facing since Russia’s invasion on 24 February this year.
The finalist and award-winning works in 2022 are stories encompassing Europe’s cultural, political, social and economic dimensions. Among them are the financing of the housing market; irregularities and malpractice by police officers in human trafficking cases; divisions within German society; the migration of Belarusian people following the presidential elections of August 2020; and the collapse of global narratives.
See the list of winners of the European Press Prize 2022 here:
- Distinguished Reporting Award: What Guantánamo made of them, Die ZEIT (Germany)
- Innovation Award: Cities for rent: Investigating corporate landlords across Europe, Arena for Journalism in Europe, ORF, Apache, Deník Referendum, Mediapart, Der Tagesspiegel, AthensLive, Reporters United, Dublin Inquirer, IrpiMedia, E24, Expresso, elDiario.es, Reflekt, Republik, Ctxt.es, Follow The Money
- Investigative Reporting Award: The investigation is closed, Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
- Public Discourse Award: Memory in the age of impunity, Coda Story (United States)
- Special Award: Cuerpo de mujer, medicina de hombre, Diari Ara (Spain)
The European Press Prize was founded ten years ago in Amsterdam by seven independent European foundations with the aim of celebrating journalism. Over the ten years it has been running, the prize has received more than 5,700 entries from 46 countries. Maldita.es won the Innovation Award in 2021 for its WhatsApp chatbot to fight disinformation.