Shortlist for the European Journalist of the Year is out!

Shortlist of 11 candidates for the Award European Journalist of the Year 2022 (sorted by first name)

Dmitrij Muratov, Russia

Eftychia Pentaraki, Greece

Elena Kostyuchenko, Russia

Elin Jönsson , Sweden

Galina Timchenko, Russia

Khadija Ismayilova, Azerbaijan

Monika Andruszewska, Poland

Olga Rudenko & Daryna Shevchenko, Ukraine

Phil Grabsky, United Kingdom

TV Rain, Russia

Yury Dud, Russia

Congratulations!

PRIX EUROPA honours a European journalist who has gone outside her/his comfort zone and shown extraordinary creativity, courage and impact on her/his specific society or audience. A journalistic game-changer dedicated to the truth in the thicket of global disinformation. A person immune to political propaganda and populism aiming to provide transparency, ready to go out and get to the bottom of things, find out the truth and inform the world. Somebody whose work has helped break through encrusted positions and change perspectives.

103 candidates have been proposed by the PRIX EUROPA community spread all over Europe.

The PRIX EUROPA Steering Committee will now decide who will be honoured as European Journalist for the year 2022 .

The winner will be announced at the PRIX EUROPA 2022 Awards Ceremony on 28 October 2022 in Potsdam.