Winners

Outstanding Contribution to Peace
Lynzy Billing
(UK)
“How America’s War Devastated Afghanistan’s Environment”
Third Prize
winning article
Outstanding Contribution to Peace
Birgitta Schülke, Arafatul Islam, Naomi Conrad
(Germany)
“Torturers Deployed as UN Peacekeepers”
Third Prize
winning article
Outstanding Contribution to Peace
Sarah A Topol
(USA)
“The America That Americans Forget”
First Prize
winning article
Outstanding Contribution to Peace
Nick Turse
USA
“Series on Drone Strike Victims”
Second Prize
winning article
Contribution to Civil Rights
Katie McQue
(USA)
“Series on use of social media platforms to exploit and traffic children”
Second Prize
winning article
Contribution to Civil Rights
Gabriela Ramirez, Tina Xu
(Germany)
“Widowed by Europe's Borders”
First Prize
winning article
Contribution to Civil Rights
Will Coldwell
(UK)
“A Teenaged Migrant Piloted a Dinghy That Sank in the Channel. Then He Was Charged with Manslaughter”
Third Prize
winning article
Outstanding Investigative Reporting
Amazon Underworld Team
(Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, UK, US, Mexico, Netherlands, Argentina)
“Amazon Underworld. Crime and corruption in the shadows of the world's largest rainforest”
First Prize
winning article
Outstanding Investigative Reporting
Nicolas Pelham
(UK)
“The Baghdad Job: Who Was Behind History’s Biggest Bank Heist?”
Third Prize
winning article
Outstanding Investigative Reporting
Tom Cardoso, Robyn Doolittle, Mahima Singh and Ming Wong
(Canada)
“Series: Secret Canada”
Second Prize
winning article
Excellence in Environmental Journalism
Fabian Federl
Brazil
“An Illegal Gold Mine for Switzerland”
Third Prize
winning article
Excellence in Environmental Journalism
Peter Waldman, Momar Niang and Katarina Höije
(USA/ Senegal)
“A Global Hunt for Water Profit Risks Draining Cities Dry”
Second Prize
winning article
Excellence in Environmental Journalism
Laura Aragó, Xavier Aldekoa
Spain
“RIP Mare Nostrum”
First Prize
winning article

Shortlist

Outstanding Contribution to Peace
Birgitta Schülke, Arafatul Islam, Naomi Conrad
(Germany)
Torturers Deployed as UN Peacekeepers
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Gunjan Sharma
(India)
Series of articles
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Jatinder Kaur Tur
(India)
Screams from the Army Post. The Indian Army’s torture and murder of civilians in a restive Jammu
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Lynzy Billing
(UK)
How America’s War Devastated Afghanistan’s Environment
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Mahmoud Elsobky
(Egypt)
Syrian Airline, Haftar's Army profit from Human Smuggling
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Mohammed Abushahma
Palestine
‘Only Those With Money Can Leave’: Gazans Pay Thousands to Escape Through Egypt
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Nick Turse
USA
Series on Drone Strike Victims
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Salma Abdel Aziz Bashir
Sudan
Murder on mobiles in Sudan - Families commit crimes against girls in Darfur for possessing a phone
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Sarah A Topol
(USA)
The America That Americans Forget
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Contribution to Civil Rights
Erica Hellerstein
(USA)
Silicon Savanna: The workers taking on Africa’s digital sweatshops
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Gabriela Ramirez, Tina Xu
(Germany)
Widowed by Europe's Borders
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Katie McQue
(USA)
Series on use of social media platforms to exploit and traffic children
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Will Coldwell
(UK)
A Teenaged Migrant Piloted a Dinghy That Sank in the Channel. Then He Was Charged with Manslaughter
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Outstanding Investigative Reporting
Alicia Florez, Lara Loaiza
(Colombia)
The Informants of Tibú: How the Colombian State Unleashed a Wave of Femicides
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Amazon Underworld Team
(Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, UK, US, Mexico, Netherlands, Argentina)
Amazon Underworld. Crime and corruption in the shadows of the world's largest rainforest
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Anastasia Austin
(Colombia)
The Gangster Governor of Zulia: The Rise and Fall of Venezuela’s Omar Prieto
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Angelina de los Santos
(Uruguay)
Series: Uruguay’s missing women may have been trafficked. The state doesn't care; Predators target Uruguay’s children in care… and the state looks away
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Aritra Bhattacharya, Saurabh Kumar
(India)
Series on modern slavery and organised crime networks in India
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Beau Donelly, John Mooney, Connor Plunkett and Peter Barth
(Ireland/ USA)
Series on the secretive life of Irish drug cartel boss Christy Kinahan
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Carey Baraka
Kenya
Inside the Kenyan Cult That Starved Itself to Death
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Gloria Pallares
(Spain)
False Claims of U.N. Backing See Indigenous Groups Cede Forest Rights for Sketchy Finance
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Jacob Goldberg, Leopold Salzenstein, Sarah Brown and Shaz Syed
(UK/ France/ Brazil/ India)
Revealed: Why the UN is not climate neutral
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Juan Pablo Barrientos Hoyos, Miguel Ángel Estupiñán Medina
(Colombia)
The Secret Archive: The Catholic Priests Accused of Sexual Abuse in Colombia
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Kemi Busari
(Nigeria)
Baba Aisha, Nigeria’s Fake ‘Doctor’ Cashing Out on Deadly Concoction That Cures Nothing
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Nicolas Pelham
(UK)
The Baghdad Job: Who Was Behind History’s Biggest Bank Heist?
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Sara Creta, Nour Khalil
(France/ Egypt)
Inside Egypt's Secret Scheme to Detain and Deport Thousands of Sudanese Refugees
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Stanislau Ivashkevich, Olga Ratmirova, Kseniya Viaznikoutsava
(Czech Republic)
Undercover of Security Forces. Who could make millions of dollars on the migration crisis at the EU border, which claimed dozens of lives
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Tom Cardoso, Robyn Doolittle, Mahima Singh and Ming Wong
(Canada)
Series: Secret Canada
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Excellence in Environmental Journalism
Daniel Grossman, Dado Galdieri, Patrick Vanier, Emily Petersen
(USA/ Brazil)
A River in Flux
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Fabian Federl
Brazil
An Illegal Gold Mine for Switzerland
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Gerald Flynn, Andrew Ball and Vutha Srey
(Cambodia)
Series: Forests in the Furnace
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Laura Aragó, Xavier Aldekoa
Spain
RIP Mare Nostrum
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Marta Vidal, Diana Takacsova
Portugal
Series: Sacrifice Mountains
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Peter Waldman, Momar Niang and Katarina Höije
(USA/ Senegal)
A Global Hunt for Water Profit Risks Draining Cities Dry
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Tadeusz Michrowski
Poland
Catch-22 on the Baltic: The Twilight of Poland’s Coastal Fishermen
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Wendy Selene Pérez Becerra, Alejandra Martinez
USA
Neglected and Exposed: Toxic air lingers in a Texas Latino community, revealing failures in state’s air monitoring system
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