Tomas Statius

Tomas Statius was selected for the 2023 Shortlist with Flight of the predator: Jet linked to Israeli spyware tycoon delivers surveillance tech from the EU to notorious Sudanese militia.

Tomas Statius is an investigative journalist based in Paris. Most of his work has been focused on migration and the far-right, as well as the defence and security industries. The author of two books, he is a regular contributor to Libération, Mediapart, Le Canard Enchaîné and Disclose, among others. He was the lead investigator on the #MoruroaFiles investigation on the fallout from French nuclear testing in Polynesia.

Johannes Böhme

Johannes Böhme was selected for the 2023 Shortlist with The traveling tribunal.

Johannes Böhme is an editor at Zeit Online. He has previously worked several years as a freelancer for different German and international media. Last year he received the Theodor-Wolff-Preis for an article about German veterans of the war in Afghanistan. In 2019, he published a novel with Ullstein, on the life of his grandmother. He holds an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge.