Accredited journalists are cordially invited to join the Award Ceremony, which will be opened by the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola.
The finalists are invited to join the Award Ceremony, with one of them having been chosen by the Jury members as the Winner of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism 2023.
Discover the 12 finalists’ works here.
The winner will be officially announced by representatives of the Pegasus Project, coordinated by Forbidden Stories, who were the laureates of the first edition of the Prize.
Programme
18.00 Welcome by Vice-President Pina Picierno followed by opening speech by President Roberta Metsola
18.15 Speech by the President of the Berlin Press Club and representative of the jury, Juliane Hielscher
18.30 Announcement of 2023 winner by 2021 laureates, Pegasus Project/Forbidden Stories, followed by speech by the 2023 winner
18.45 Closing of ceremony by Vice-President Pina Picierno
18.50 Photo opportunity
19.00 Reception at the private salon C0.1 (opposite the press bar)
English, French, German, and Italian interpretation will be available.
You can also follow the event via Webstreaming here or by Europe by Satellite here.
Press seminar
Just before the award ceremony, a press seminar is being organised on “Safeguarding Media Freedom: the role of the European Union”. The seminar begins at 15:00 in room Weiss R5.1, with an introduction by EP Vice-President Pina Picierno. A panel of journalists will then discuss the continued threats to media and press freedom, through their personal experience. The seminar will be closed by the speeches of two other journalists and Vice-President Picierno.
You can watch the seminar in replay here and also participate through interactio by going to this link.
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Background
The Prize, with the support of the European Parliament, is a tribute to the Maltese investigative journalist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was assassinated in October 2017. It rewards, on a yearly basis, outstanding journalism that promotes or defends the core principles and values of the European Union, such as human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and human rights.
The Prize is open to professional journalists and teams of professional journalists of any nationality to submit in-depth stories that have been published or broadcast by a media outlet based in one of the 27 European Union member states. From 3 May to 31 July 2023, more than 260 journalists from the 27 EU countries submitted work for this third edition of the Prize.
The Prize itself, and the €20,000 prize money, demonstrate the European Parliament’s strong support for investigative journalism and the protection of journalists around the world.
