Awards Ceremony

The Fetisov Journalism Awards, the richest prize in global journalism, announced  the 2024 winners on April 22nd, 2025 in Dubai.

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Gleb Fetisov, Founder of the Fetisov Journalism Awards

Alisa Fetisova

Daughter of the Founder of the Fetisov Journalism Awards

Ricardo Gutiérrez, FJA Jury Member, Secretary General of the the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ)

Aidan White, Honorary Advisor to the Fetisov Charitable Foundation and the Fetisov Journalism Awards, Founder and President of the Ethical Journalism Network

Outstanding Contribution to Peace

First Prize Winner

Sarah A Topol (USA)

The America That Americans Forget

Second Prize Winner

Nick Turse (USA) 

Series on Drone Strike Victims

Third Prize Winner

Lynzy Billing (UK)

How America’s War Devastated Afghanistan’s Environment

Third Prize Winner

Birgitta Schülke, Arafatul Islam, Naomi Conrad (Germany)

Torturers Deployed as UN Peacekeepers

 

Contribution to Civil Rights

First Prize Winner

Gabriela Ramirez, Tina Xu (Germany)

Widowed by Europe's Borders

Second Prize Winner

Katie McQue (USA)

Series on use of social media platforms to exploit and traffic children

Blake Montgomery, Tech Editor for Guardian US, accepting the award on behalf of Katie McQue

  

Third Prize Winner

Will Coldwell (UK)

A Teenaged Migrant Piloted a Dinghy That Sank in the Channel. Then He Was Charged with Manslaughter

Outstanding Investigative Reporting

First Prize Winner

Alejandro Gómez Dugand, Alex Rufino, Andres Cardona, Barbara Fraser, Beatriz Jucá, Bram Ebus, Diane Sampaio, Emily Costa, Ivan Brehaut, Jaap van 't Kruis, Jeanneth Valdivieso, Jorge Benezra, Josefina Salomon, Joseph Poliszuk, Juan Torres, Juliana Rezende, Laura Kurtzberg, Leandro Barbosa, Luiz Fernando Toledo, Luiza Toledo, María Ramírez Cabello, Mariana Rios, Mary Carmen Vieira, Mathias Felipe, Nicoll Fonseca, Pamela Huerta, Rafael Ch Duran, Ronna Rísquez, Rodrigo Pedroso, Sam Cowie, Silvana Vincenti, Sinar Alvarado, Stefano Wrobleski, Tatiana Escárraga, Wagner Almeida

(Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, UK, US, Mexico, Netherlands, Argentina)

Amazon Underworld

Second Prize Winner

Tom Cardoso, Robyn Doolittle, Mahima Singh and Ming Wong (Canada)

Secret Canada 

Third Prize Winner

Nicolas Pelham (UK)

The Baghdad Job: Who Was Behind History’s Biggest Bank Heist?

 

Excellence in Environmental Journalism

Laura Aragó and Xavier Aldekoa (Spain)

RIP Mare Nostrum

Second Prize Winner

Peter Waldman, Momar Niang and Katarina Höije (USA/ Senegal) 

A Global Hunt for Water Profit Risks Draining Cities Dry

Third Prize Winner

Fabian Federl (Brazil)

An Illegal Gold Mine for Switzerland

The full video and more photos of the awards ceremony will be available soon on FJA website.