Many of the investigative projects which had received a grant from Journalismfund Europe have won awards. 

2025

  • Ana Tudela and Antonio Delgado got an honorary mention at Vicente Verdú Awards for Journalism and Innovation 2025 

  • 'Veneno en el grifo', part of the 'Under the Surface' cross-border project, got an honorary mention at Vicente Verdú Awards for Journalism and Innovation 2025, underscoring the journalists' commitment to serve the real needs of the audience and create practical solutions for citizens. The Vicente Verdú Award is a benchmark for innovation in Spanish journalism, and in its fifth edition, continued to recognise initiatives that add value to society. 

  • Suzana Miceva and Aleksandar Metodijev awarded Nikola Mladlenov Award

Suzana Miceva and Aleksandar Metodijev received a "Certificate of Commendation for Outstanding Journalistic Engagement in the Best Investigative Story Category" at the 2024 "Nikola Mladenov" Journalist Awards Competition for their investigation The Unbreathable Air of the Western Balkans. This competition was organized by the Macedonian Institute for Media (MIM) and has carried the name of journalist and Fokus magazine owner Nikola Mladenov since 2013, following his tragic death in a car accident.

  • Datadista awarded The King of Spain International Awards for journalism

This interactive documentary reveals that more than a million people in Spain live in critical points of nitrate pollution in tap water at levels that pose a health risk, a figure well above that managed so far.
This is an investigation that is part of the project "Under the Surface," in which 14 journalists from seven European media worked together to investigate the situation of aquifers throughout and in each of their countries in Europe.

  • Evelien Rutten awarded the title of Master Storyteller by the Stichting Verhalende Journalistiek

Evelien Rutten received the title of Master Storyteller in the Listening Category for the Roadtrip To Auschwitz podcast. The title is awarded every year by the Stichting Verhalende Journalistiek to the best narrative journalism produced in the Netherlands and Flanders.   

  • Marijn Fidder won the Zilveren Camera for International Documentary Photography

Marijn Fidder received the Zilveren Camera photography award in the category International Documentary for her project Left Behind. The long-term project documents  the lives of EU orphans in Romania and Moldova. 

  • Under The Surface investigation received Voices Awards 2025

The team of journalists who worked on this data-inspired investigation received the award in the category 'Journalism / Impact / Cross-border investigative reporting.' 

  • Projects supported by Journalismfund shortlisted for the True Story Award 2025

Ula Idzikowska's article 'You won't be free without your own food' in Oko.press and Sara Manisera's article 'Europa – Costa Rica – Europa: Il Triangle Delle Banane' in Millennium were shortlisted in the European selection for the True Story Award 2025. The articles were a part of the 'Does Fighting for Peace Building in Israel and Palestine Still Make Sense?'  and The Bitter Taste of Bananas Coming from Costa-Rica to Europe investigations. Another article, "Wer braucht hier Heilung?," from "Inside Europe's Secret Conversion Therapy Conference" project under the ECBG grant programme has also been nominated for True Story Award 2025 in the German category.

  • Projects supported by Journalismfund shortlisted for the Fetisov Awards 2025

Fabian Federl's article 'Dona Mirtes und die Männer in der Goldgrube', part of Toxic gold - French Guiana's Illegal Mines investigation, was shortlisted in the Excellence in Environmental Journalism category.

2024

  • The Border Graves investigation received the European Commission’s Award 

The Border Graves Investigation team received the European Commission’s Award for Journalism - Lorenzo Natali Award 2024.

  • Kamay documentary received several awards internationally 

Ilyas Yourish's film Kamay is a moving reflection on love, loss and perseverance despite growing unrest on the eve of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. 

The journalists received the 3rd place in the EU Awards for Investigative Journalism in North Macedonia for their documentary Fragile Forests. The EU Investigative Journalism Award is organised by Thomson Media. 

  • Daniela Sara and Sara Manisera received Ivan Bonfanti 2024 award

The Ivan Bonfanti award was given to the journalists in appreciation of their reportage describing the disastrous human and environmental consequences of oil extraction in Iraq, oil that Eni then transports to Italy. That article was published by Irpi Media as part of The Price of Oil investigation.

  • Marching in the Dark received several awards across Europe

Kinshuk Surjan's debut documentary film Marching in the Dark sheds light on the high suicide rate among farmers in rural regions in India. 

– Young Critics Award & Audience Award, Biografilm Festival

– Human:Rights, Special Mention, CPH:DOX Festival

– Shortlist, European Film Awards

– Special Mention, Zurich Film Festival

– Best Film in the Emerging Filmmakers Competition, Nepatogus Kinas

– Gender Sensitivity Award, Dharamshala International Film Festival

EU Agriculture Funds Favour Businessmen Linked to Politics and Crime over Farmers investigation received the EU Investigative Journalism Awards prize

Aida Ciro, Aleksandar Dimitrievski and Geri Emiri received the award for exposing the challenges faced by Balkan farmers in accessing EU funds through the IPARD Program.

Read more about this investigation here.

  • The Dirty Deals film receives the Visions of Nature Prize 

Dirty Deals is part of the cross-border investigation Dirty Deals: Illegal Waste Trade by Marius Münstermann, Michael Billig and Zuzana Šotová. It focuses on waste recycling products which are meant to be good materials for recultivation, but in fact may come with pieces of plastic, and reveals how certain companies exported useless waste from Germany to Czechia for profit. 

This prize was awarded at the 50th anniversary of EKOLFILM festival.

  •  Brother documentary received several awards worldwide 

This documentary feature film is part of The Road of No Return investigation by Vanja Stokic, Ajdin Kamber and Goran Gazdek about how dozens of migrants from Asia and Africa drown every year in the rivers between Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

Alena Beširević, Harun Dinarević, Ingrid Gercama, Marjolein Koster and Jeanne Frank received the Bosnian award for Best reporting on corruption by CRMA in July 2024 for their investigation in which they mapped illegal deforestation and who profits from it.

  • Stéphane Horel chosen as Best Science Journalist by AJSPI

Stephane Horel, coordinator and one of the initiators of the Forever Pollution investigation, received for this project the 2024 ASJPI Best Science Journalist Prize from The French Association of Science Journalists. 

  • Mariana Verbovska received Honour of Profession award for her environmental investigation

For her article Ultrasounds of Death,with the findings from the Russian Navy Killing Dolphins in the Black Sea cross-border investigation, Mariana Verbovska received the Honour of Profession award from the Ukrainian National Media Association, in the category Best Analytical Report in the local media.

  • How 'Green' Investments Are Financing Big Carbon won the 2024 Covering Climate Now Journalism Award in the Fossil Fuels category

The investigation by Stefano Valentino and Giorgio Michalopoulos looked at funds which invested in fossil fuel companies such as Eni, Enel, Repsol, Chevron, TotalEnergies, BP and Shell, but were still falsely claimed to be sustainable. It was praised by the jury of Covering Climate Now award for commendable work covering new fossil fuel development, greenwashing, government lobbying, and dubious schemes to offset emissions, and disinformation. Read more about this investigation here.

  • Diplomatic Immunity & Impunity investigation won the Carlos Tejada Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting

This award is one of the SOPA Awards 2024. 

The four-part series was written by journalist Ana P. Santos, Rappler multimedia reporter Michelle Abad, and Rappler digital forensics specialist Pauline Macaraeg. The series is a data-driven, cross-border investigation exposing how erring diplomats have been able to exploit their migrant domestic workers and have gotten away with it for decades due to a privilege called diplomatic immunity. Read more about the investigation here. 

  • The Bankers of Irregular Migration received an honourable mention at the Trace Prize for Investigative Reporting 2024

The team of journalists received an honourable mention at the Trace Prize for Investigative Reporting for their piece "Hawala: The Bankers of Irregular Migration" which explored and exposed the network of small businesses that sustained the world of migrants, but also endangered them.

Read more about the investigation here.

  • During the war, I was Solange investigation received Belgian Podcast award

It received the third prize In the "History" category and  was shortlisted in the category "Human Stories" at the Belgian Podcast Awards.

Find out more about the project here.

  • How the exotic birds are trafficked from Guinea into the EU via Serbia received an honourable mention at the True Story Awards 2024

Nemanja Rujević, Ingrid Gercama, Nathalie Bertrams and Tristen Taylor revealed how the wild birds are still entering the EU despite the ban that was introduced in 2015 - and that the price for those birds is so high the revenues would be more profitable than those from drug trade, and this investigation was highlighted by the True Story Awards mention.

Read more about the investigation here.

  • The Fragile Forests documentary won the first prize at the competition "Facts and misinformation about the human environment"

The competition was organised by the Council of Media Ethics in Macedonia and supported by UNESCO and the Delegation of the European Union to North Macedonia. The Fragile Forests was filmed and produced by Aleksandar Metodijev and Suzana Miceva.

Bhrikuti Rai and Fabian Federl visit Odemira, where the raspberries are grown, to find out what life is like for the workers here and whether their dream of earning an EU passport is worth the toil. Read the investigation here. 

  • Iraq Without Water: The Cost of Oil to Italy won the European Press Prize in the Investigative Reporting Award category 

This investigation was carried out by Sara Manisera, Daniela Sala and Ollie Ballinger. 

— As reporters, and as FADA Collective, we strongly believe that generically talking about the climate crisis is not enough: we must investigate the responsibilities and hold both State and private actors accountable. This is a particularly urgent in countries like Iraq. Oil and gas multinationals continue to operate to maximise their profits, an ecological disaster is looming over the country, and it is the local communities who pay the price of an irreversible environmental degradation. This investigation required time and a lot of efforts and it would not have been possible without the support of the Journalismfund Europe. — Sara and Daniela said after receiving the prize.

Read more about this investigation here. 

  • The Price of Oil is shortlisted for the Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award in the Reportage category

Iraq is among the countries in the world most exposed to the effects of the climate crisis. While the effects of rising temperatures and erratic rainfall is certainly relevant and relatively talked about, the role of the oil industry is too often concealed. For her work on this project, Daniela Sala received the Kolga Tbilisi Photo award in the Reportage category.

Read more about this investigation here. 

  •  High Stakes: The political biography of Shell and The Mexican Method investigations longlisted for the Brusseprijs 2024 

Shell knows the ways to the highest circles as well as the shortcuts through the political swamps. The oil and gas giant operates in 70 countries. Most are not democratic constitutional states. Shell - until recently Royal Dutch Shell - has to deal daily with weak or autocratic governments, corruption, unrest, war and terrorism. How does it navigate through these? Read here about the 'High Stakes' investigation.

In Belgium and the Netherlands, Mexican laborers have raised a new branch of the drug industry: crystal meth. Arthur Debruyne portrays all those involved. 'Buying gloves? Just tell those mexi to work'. Read more about The Mexican Method investigation here.

The investigation which received the One World Media award in the Best Podcast&Radio category was carried out by Bhrikuti Rai and Fabian Federl. They revealed what life is like for the workers inOdemira, Portugal where raspberries are grown. Is their dream of earning an EU passport worth the toil? 

  • The Price of Oil received award at the World Water Day Photo Contest 2024

The 2nd award in the Storytelling category at the World Water Day Photo Contest organised by UNESCO went to this investigation by Daniela Sala, Sara Manisera and Ollie Ballinger. This cross-border team looked into the environmental and health consequences for Iraq that are the result of the oil industry putting a strain on the country’s already scarce water resources. 

  • The investigation Hands On Deck is shortlisted for the Mary Raftery Prize

This investigation looked into the exploitation of migrant fishing workers in Ireland and received the annual prize for social affairs journalism produced on the island of Ireland.

  • Two investigations supported by Journalismfund shortlisted for the Sigma awards 2024

Diplomatic Immunity and Impunity examined how diplomats exploit their foreign domestic workers and escape prosecution because of diplomatic immunity, while Ground Control investigated land ownership in European capitals.

  • Documentary film Planet B won the Ensor 2024 for Best Documentary in Belgium

At Ensors 2024, the Flemish film and audiovisual awards ceremony held in Ostend, Pieter Van Eecke received an award for the Best Documentary film. 

Find more information about the investigation here. 

  • Three Investigations shortlisted for the True Story Award 2024

“The TuNur Solar Exportation Project: An Unjust Green Energy Project” by Aida Delpuech and Arianna Poletti. Read the original here or the translation into English here 

“How Exotic Birds are Trafficked from Guinea into the EU via Serbia” by Nemanja Rujević, Nathalie Bertrams, Dr. Tristen Taylor and Ingrid Gercama. Read the awarded article in Serbian here and more about the investigation here (including links in other languages).  

“How to build a life in a state in decline?” by Ula Idzikowska and Marek Kowalczyk. Read the story in Polish here and more about the project here.

2023

  • Investigative photo book Wild Land, the return of wild animals won De Bronzen Stekker 2023

The award is given by the municipality of Koekelare, Belgium. This investigative project on why the wild animals returning to Belgium and what does that say about thel environment was carried out by Paul Cobbaert. 

  • Investigative podcast and book The History of the Belgian Sperm Bank won several awards in 2023

– The Belfius Press Prizes 2023, nominated

– De Oorkondes 2023, nominated

– KVAB Jaarprijs voor wetenschapscommunicatie, won

This investigation was carried out by Tinne Claes and Wederik De Backer. You can read more about it here. 

  • Investigation into the exploitation of workers in Italy’s kiwi industry shortlisted for two awards

The ‘Tina Merlin’ national awards for Investigative Journalism

The Fetisov Journalism Awards 2023, in the Outstanding Investigative Reporting category
Stefania Prandi, Francesca Piculli, Charlotte Aagaard and Kusum Arora revealed how farm workers trafficked from Punjab in India to work in the kiwi fields of Lazio. Read more about the project and see the stories here

  • Investigation into the illegal crude oil mining in Nigeria won the 2023 Hostwriter Story Prize

Raluca Besliu, Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi and Kevin Woke uncovered the harmful impact of Total's illegal oil and gas exploration activities in Nigeria.

Read the investigation here.

  • Dry to the Bone won the 2023 ILO Global Media Competition on Labour Migration

Claudia Colliva, Giada Santana and Juli Simond delved into the role of organised crime and the labour exploitation in the agricultural market.

Read the investigation here.

  • Hands on Deck won the Investigative Writing Award at the Irish Food Writing Awards 2023

This award was judged by Dan Saladino, a BBC journalist, and kindly sponsored by Drummond House Garlic. This competition is to reward and share excellence in writing and content production on Irish food. It is open to writers, journalists, chefs, bloggers, broadcasters, photographers and those who promote Irish food on social media.

Find more information about the investigation here. 

  • Forever Pollution Project awarded the 2nd place of the Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting

This award of the Society of Environmental journalists in the 'Large market' category went to Tim Luimes, Stéphane Horel, Tomas Vanheste, Sarah Pilz and Gianluca Liva who exposed over 17,000 PFAS-contaminated sites across Europe, with an additional 22,000 potential contamination sites caused by past or ongoing industrial activities, highlighting environmental concerns. Read the story here.

  • Two investigations shortlisted for the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism 2023

The Bankers of Irregular Migration is an investigation by Elena Ledda, Andrea Giambartolomei, Priyanka Shankar, Emma Yeomans, Andrés Mourenza and Iliana Papangeli. Read the story here.

The Forever Pollution Project, an investigation by Tim Luimes, Stéphane Horel, Thomas Vanheste, Sarah Pilz and Gianluca Liva. Read the story here.

  • Two investigations shortlisted for the Hostwriter Story Prize 2023

  • Nigeria: Illegal crude oil mining, an investigation by Elfredah Kevin-Arelechi, Kevin Woke and Raluca Besliu. Read the story here.

The environmental and social impacts of Europe and Japan's waste to energy push in Southeast Asia, an investigation by Nithin Coca, Alexandra Buba, Geela Garcia and Nicha Wachpanich. Read the story here.

  • Two investigations win the 2023 Climate Journalism Award

  • The Dark Trace In the Water of the Cheap Meat Big Business, an investigation by Ana Tudela and Antonio Delgado, won in the Data Category. Read more about the investigation here.

The Sinking Cities Project, an investigation by Rehab Abdalmohsen, Ope Adetayo, Shamsuddin Illius, Lois Kapila, Zuza Nazaruk and Zuha Siddiqui won in the Emerging Talent Category. Read more about this story here.

  • Investigation into the illegal waste importation to the Czech Republic from Germany, finalist in the German Text and German Multimedia category of the German-Czech Journalism Award

Journalists Michael Billig, Marius Münstermann and Zuzana Šotová revealed how a German company sent a potentially harmful product to a Czech waste site.

Read more about this project here. 

  • Investigation into banned EU pesticides use in Kenya and Cameroon, runner-up in the Digital category at the 11th Annual Journalism Excellence Awards

Journalists Mary Mwendwa and Christian Locka established that Chemical Pesticides produced in the USA and Germany, banned within the European Union markets, are still used in Kenya and Cameroon.

Read the story here. 

  • Investigation into the Dark Trace of the Intensive Macro-farms in Europe nominated to Premio Gabo 2023

Journalists Ana Tudela and Antonio Delgado were part of a team who showed how areas of extremely high concentration of intensive macro-farms in Europe have polluted rivers, aquifers and even drinking water. 

Read more here. 

  • Investigation into the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in Uganda won the recognition of the most prestigious competition for visual artists in Ibero-America (POY Latam).

Journalists Dicta Asiimwe and Pablo Garrigós Cucarella investigated how the work of Ugandan scientists in the frontline of zoonotic disease surveillance, in the context of weak and under-supported healthcare systems in Africa, and how this could jeopardise the goal of protecting the global population from the next pandemic. Pablo Garrigós Cucarella won on the category of photojournalists in the world. 

Read more about this investigation here. 

  • Investigation into the international bird trade won the award for best article in the print media category of the Dejan Anastasijević award 2023.

Journalists Nemanja Rujević, Ingrid Gercama, Nathalie Bertrams and Tristen Taylor investigated how the smuggling of songbirds and other tropical birds to the European Union (EU) has skyrocketed in recent years, especially along the Balkans trafficking route.

Read more about this investigation here. 

  • Investigation about Indian workers exploited in Italy won the Ivan Bonfanti journalism prize 2023.

Journalists Daniela Sala (Italy), Ankita Anand (India) and Marco Valle (Italy) investigated how, through debt, a network of intermediairies linking India to the Pontine countryside keeps thousands of Indian workers under blackmail, exploited in one of the largest fruit and vegetable districts in Europe.

Read more about this investigation here. 

  • Three investigations supported by Journalismfund Europe are shortlisted for the Justice Media Awards 2023. 

Hands On Deck: Exploitation of Migrant Fishing Workers In Ireland is an investigation by Maria Delaney, Geela Garcia and Louise Lawless. Read more about this investigation here. 

Peat pressure: industrial peat extraction in enforcement firing line, an investigation by Niall Sargent and Juris Jurans. Read more here. 

Hidden cross-border pollution in Ireland and the United Kingdom, an investigation by Luke Butterly, Niall Sargent, Rory Winters, Ella McSweeney and Tommy Greene. Read more  here. 

Tobias Asmuth investigated the consequences of the Alqueva Dam for the south of Portugal, read his investigation here. Ricardo Rodrigues' investigation follows the work of a team of researchers which is, in fact, the urgent fight of Science to stop the species and biodiversity decline, read the story here. 

  • Investigation about the post-election collapse in Belarus won the Amnesty Media Award. 

Olga Loginova and Ottavia Spaggiari investigated how the regime responded to the protest by unleashing an unprecedented level of violence.

Read the story here. 

  • Investigation Hands on Deck won the Irish Red Cross Humanitarian Award for Journalism Excellence

Maria Delaney, Geela Garcia, and Louise Lawless investigated how exploited Asian migrant workers in the Irish fishing sector are being failed and ignored. Read more here. 

  • Investigation about the surrogacy industry in Kenya nominated for the Inge Fetrinelli Award

Naipanoi Lepapa (Kenya) uncovered a multitude of worrying allegations about the unregulated surrogacy industry in Kenya. Read the story here.

  • Investigation about the post-election collapse of human rights in Belarus nominated for Fetisov Journalism Awards.  

Olga Loginova and Ottavia Spaggiari investigated how the regime responded to the protest by unleashing an unprecedented level of violence.  Read the story here.

2022

  • Investigation about destructive mining operations in Serbia nominated for the Dejan Anastasijević investigative journalism award in Belgrade

Ingrid Gercama, Nemanja Rujević and Natalie Bertrams investigated that de EU's craze for lithium brings about a loss of biodiversity and pollution in Serbia. Read the story here.

  • Investigation About Indian workers exploited in Italy won the 2022 Global Media Competition on Labour Migration award

Journalists Daniela Sala (Italy), Ankita Anand (India) and Marco Valle (Italy) investigated how, through debt, a network of intermediairies linking India to the Pontine countryside keeps thousands of Indian workers under blackmail, exploited in one of the largest fruit and vegetable districts in Europe. Read the story here. 

Journalists Niall Sargent, Rory Winters, Luke Butterly & Tommy Greene, and Ella McSweeney investigated the environmental impacts of the poultry industry in Ireland and the United Kingdom as it expands in line with State policy. Read more here. 

  • Investigation about the financial management of the poverty non-profit organisation Poverello won prestigious award in the Netherlands.

Journalists Ruben Brugnera and Marieke Brugnera have won 'De Loep', the most prestigious award for investigative journalism in The Netherlands and Flanders (Belgium).

Read more here.

  • Naipanoi Lepapa has been included in the list of Top 100 Kenyans 2022 for her investigation on the surrogacy industry in Kenya

Every year, Kenyans.co.ke releases the highly anticipated list of Top 100 Kenyans who stood out and disrupted the status quo countrywide, during the period under review - between January and December. Naipanoi's investigation uncovered a multitude of disturbing allegations about the unregulated surrogacy industry in Kenya.

Read more here.

  • Ouder/Elder shortlisted for the Rose d'Or 2022

The podcast Ouder/Elder by Lander Kennis and Rafael Njotea is on the shortlist for the prestigous Rose d'Or. Read the story here.

  • Nieuw België, een migratiegeschiedenis won prestigious award in the Netherlands

Tom Naegels won the 'Prijs voor het Belangrijkste Boek van het Jaar' (Award for the Most Important Book of the Year).

Read the story here. 

  • Nomination as finalist of DIGA wards for 'The Hungarian Playbook' in the category of Investigative Long

Bence Máté, Florian Schewe and Áron Szentpéteri are finalists for the #DIGAwards with The Hungarian Playbook in the category Investigative Long.

  • Read more about this investigation here.

  • Naipanoi Lepapa became Journalist of the Year with her story on the surrogacy in Kenya

Naipanoi Lepapa was among the journalists awarded during the 2022 Annual Journalism Excellence Awards (AJEA) held in Nairobi on Friday, May 6. At the awards organised by the Media Council of Kenya (MCK), Naipanoi was crowned the Journalist of the Year in recognition of her investigative articles at the outlet. Journalist of the Year award, which is the highest award recognition, went to Naipanoi Lepapa of The Elephant for a story on the surrogacy industry in Kenya. 

Read more about this investigation here.

  • When the good cause derails

A project supported by Journalismfund Europe has been longlisted by the VVOJ for the Loep 2021. This list contains – per category – the 10 best research stories from Belgium and the Netherlands. The investigation, supported by the Pascal Decroos Fund, is about the Belgian homeless organization Poverello, who has a poor image, but has 14 million in the bank and owns real estate worth 50 million euros.

  • Read more about this investigation here. 

  • Nepalis abused by Nepalis in Luxembourg

  • Amnesty International Luxembourg has awarded its Amnesty Mediepräis 2022 in the category "article" to Luc Caregari, who together with Namrata Sharma carried out an investigation revealing shortcomings in the fight against forced labor in Luxembourg. Through the testimony of a victim in the restaurant industry, the report reveals the wall of silence that daily life hides in a situation where the victim and the culprit are part of the same community. 
  • Jury member Petz Bartz explained the decision: “Luc Caregari's investigation was carried out in collaboration with Namrata Sharma in Nepal. It is a remarkable piece of international and cross-border journalism that even the pandemic has not been able to silence". 

  • 2021

  • Hard Labour: How a lack of regulation puts Kenyan surrogates at risk

  • For this investigation published in 2020, Napanoi Lepapa was shortlisted for the Fetisov Journalism Awards in the category of Outstanding Investigative Reporting.

  • ALL-IN 

  • This film has won the award for best documentary at the Antalya Altın Portakal Film Festivali, and the film has also been selected for the European Film Awards 2021. Read about the film here. 

  • Climate Change Adaptation Aid Never Reached Kenya's Farmers

  • Swedish Journalist Carolina Jemsby was shortlisted for the 'Golden Shovel' (Guldspaden) award for this story. Guldspaden is an annual Swedish prestigious award in investigative journalism. It is awarded by the Swedish Association of Investigative Journalism (Föreningen Grävande Journalister). Read the story here.

  • The consultant: why did a palm oil conglomerate pay $22m to an unnamed 'expert' in Papua?

  • This investigation was finalist in two categories of the Online Journalism Awards 2021: the ‘Knight Award for Public Service’ and ‘Excellence in Collaboration and Partnerships'.
  • Read more about the investigation here. 

  • Bloed en honing (Blood and honey)

  • De Nederlandse Fotoboekenprijs (Dutch award): award for best text/photobook.
  • Read more about the investigation here. 

  • Moeders ten laste (Financially dependent mothers)

  • Belfius Persprijzen: award for Best Podcast/Radio, most important journalistic award in Belgium. Read the story here.

  • Mother

  • Ensors 2021: award for Best Documentary Film, most important film award in Flanders, Belgium. Read the story here.

  • De onfatsoenlijken (The indecent)

  • Ensors 2021: award for Best Documentary TV, most important award in Flanders, Belgium. Read the story here.

  • 2020

  • Factcheck.Vlaanderen

  • Factcheck.Vlaanderen is an online platform that uses artificial intelligence to detect disinformation and polarisation so that fact-checkers can verify and combat it. It was developed with an innovation grant from Journalismfund's Flemish Journalism Fund.
  • Professor Michaël Opgenhaffen was awarded the Annual Prize for Science Communication from the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts for the co-creation and co-management of Factcheck.Vlaanderen.

  • Financially dependent mothers

  • Nominated for the Prix Europa, Europe's largest annual tri-medial festival and competition. Read the story here. 

  • El Tarangu

  • Nominated for De Tegel, the most important award for journalism in The Netherlands. Read the story here.

  • Breasts

  • Longlisted for the Brusseprijs 2020 (award for the best journalistic book in Dutch). Read the story here.

  • The forgotten people

  • Shortlisted for the Brusseprijs 2020. (award for the best journalistic book in Dutch). Read the story here.

  • Mother

  • Longlisted for the One World Media Awards. Read the story here.

  • In search of the enemy

  • Won 'De Loep' (most prestigious award for investigative journalism in Flanders and The Netherlands, discerned by the Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative Journalists VVOJ). Read the story here.

  • El Tarangu

  • Won the Title of 'Meesterverteller' (Master Storyteller) of the Dutch Narrative Journalism Foundation. Read the story here. 

  • The S53 

  • Won the Title of 'Meesterverteller' (Master Storyteller) of the Dutch Narrative Journalism Foundation. 
  • Read the story here. 

  • Land of plenty, land of but a few

  • Won the King of Spain International Journalism Award in the category environmental and sustainable development journalism. 
  • Read the story here. 
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  • 2019

  • Breathless (Ademloos)

  • 2019 - Won the Ensors (Flemish film awards)  for the best documentary film - 14/09/2019
  • Read the story here. 

  • Once upon a time... (Er was eens...)

  • 2019 - Nominated for the Ensors (Flemish film awards) - best documentary television
  • Read the story here. 

  • Mother 

  • 2019 - Nominated for many festivals: Sheffield, Chicago, Ghent, Hot Springs, Rotteredam, Kosovo, Athens, DOCNYC, ...
  • Read the story here. 

  • Investigate Europe

  • 2019 - Investigate Europe won the Hans-Matthöfer-Preis" for their publication on BlackRock's investment.

  • The slavery of care

  • 2019 - Nominated for Belfius-persprijs in the category television press. - 08/05/2019
  • Read the story here.

  • Faire-part

  • 2019 - Won the Prix Meilleur Documentaire international at the RIDM Montréal International Documentary Festival.
  • Read the story here. 

  • Land of plenty, land of but a few

  • 2019 - Shortlisted for the New Media Writing Prize (NMWP) in the journalism category.
  • 2019 - Nominated for The Prix Europa on the “Tv Current Affair” category.
  • 2019 - Awarded the Prémio Gazeta Multimedia. The most important journalism prize in Portugal.
  • Read the story here. 

  • Mercy Killing

  • 2019 - Nominated in De Loep's 'Signalerend' category - VVOJ - 22/03/2019
  • Read the story here. 

  • No friends but the mountains

  • 2019 - Won the best short documentary at the Beloit International Film Festival, US.
  • Read the story here.  

  • Ghana For You

  • 2019 - Nominated for FEPASCO (Burkina Faso): Compétition documentaire long-métrage 
  • Read the story here. 

  • 2018

  • Beni Files

  • Aanmoedigingsprijs van ‘De Loep’- VVOJ (Nominated)
  • Read the story here. 

  • Fish & Ships: Europe’s fishing deals in West Africa

  •  Hostwriter (Won 2nd Story Prize)
  • Read the story here. 

  • The Malta Files

  • The European Press Prize (Nominated)
  • Read the story here. 

  • Investigate Europe

  • Surveillance Studies Preis (Awarded)
  • Read the story here. 

  • 2017

  • The Malta Files

  •  British Journalism Awards (Nominated)
  • Read the full story here. 

  • The Watch List

  •  Vereniging Online Journalisten Nederland (VOJN) (Nominated)
  • Read the full story here. 

  • Kaliningrad, invisible battleground

  • Prix Philippe Chaffanjon (WON)
  • Read the story here. 

  • LON

  • Won Best Short Documentary - IDFA (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  • Read the story here. 

  • We must be dreaming

  •  Won Social Art Award (Berlin).
  • Read the story here. 

  • 2016

  • Who extracts the value of Nigerian Football Players?

  •  CNN African Journalist Awards, category Sport Reporting (Won)
  • Read the story here. 

  • Insane Prices

  • This investigation became the winner of Expopharm Prize and was nominated for the German Reporterpreis.
  • Read more about the investigation here. 

  • Hearing Voices

  •  European Science Writer of the Year (WON, by Michele Catanzaro)
  • Read more about the investigation here. 

  • Youth In Play / Game On

  • AMI Journalism against Indifference Prize 
  •  High Commission for Migration's Communication Award
  • Read more about the investigation here. 

  • Land Grabbing in the EU

  • Investigative Reporting Award of the 2016 European Press Prize (Shortlisted)
  • Read more about the investigation here. 

  • 2015

  • Organ Trafficking in Kosovo

  • 2015 - Prix Louise Weiss for European Journalism (WON)
  • Read the story here.

  • 2014

  • The Migrants Files

  • 2014 - European Press Prize, Innovation Award (WON)
  • 2014 - Global Editors Network Data Journalism Awards (WON)
  • 2014 - Gold Medal at 'Premios ÑH'
  • Read the story here. 

  • The Belarus Network

  • 2014 - European Press Prize, Innovation Award (Shortlisted)
  • Read the story here. 

  • Organ Trafficking in Kosovo

  • 2014 - Prix Louise Weiss (WON)
  • Read the story here. 

  • Gaza's Gas

  • 2014 - Reporting Europe Prize (Highly commended)
  • Read the full story here. 

  • 2013

  • Gaza's Gas

  • This investigation was shortlisted for the Data Journalism Award 2013
  • Read more about this investigation here. 

  • 2012

  • Buy Your Way into EU Citizenship

  • 2012 - European Press Prize (Shortlisted)
  • Read the story here. 

  • In the Name of The State

  • 2012 - CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism (WON)

  • 2011

  • In the Name of The State

  • Special investigative journalism diploma
  • Read the story here. 

  • Latvian Brides

  • This book by Aleksandra Jolkina led to Jolkina's nomination as "Latvia’s 2011 Trafficking in Persons Report hero" by the United States Embassy to Latvia.
  • Read the story here. 

  • 2010

  • Fields of Terror

  • 2010 - CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism (WON)
  • Read the story here.