Willem Feenstra

Willem Feenstra won the 2026 Distinguished Reporting Award with What the wounds are telling us.

Willem Feenstra (1988) is a Dutch investigative journalist working for national newspaper De Volkskrant. Since 2013 he has written about injustice and government, publishing investigations into issues such as corruption in sports, misconduct within the armed forces and wrongdoing at the Dutch public broadcaster. He recently focused on investigations into possible hybrid sabotage and other security threats. Feenstra has won the Netherlands’ highest journalism award, De Tegel, three times.