Lara Bonilla

Lara Bonilla was selected for the 2021 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Infertility: The other face of motherhood.’

Lara Bonilla (Barcelona, 1978) graduated in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Humanities from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and she is a journalist. She has worked at ARA since its foundation in 2010, where she has occupied different posts. She has worked as a journalist specialising in health topics, as deputy head of Society and as head of Lifestyle. Before that, she had worked in Girona and New York as a correspondent for many Catalan and Spanish media. She has worked for radio, newspapers, television and news agencies. She is now part of ARA’s interactives team and specialises in health, social and feminist issues. Convinced that everyone has a story to tell, she likes to tell the stories hidden behind the big headlines.

Janusz Schwertner

Janusz Schwertner has won the 2021 European Press Prize Distinguished Reporting Award with ‘Love in the time of plague.’

Janusz Schwertner (born February 8, 1992) – is a journalist of the Polish internet portal Onet. He is a laureate of many Polish journalistic awards, including the Grand Press awards for investigative journalism and reportage.

He started his journalistic work at the age of 14 as a journalist for a student newspaper. He has also written articles for magazines like Playboy and Esquire.

He deals with social and political issues. He has written several books. In the book “Smolensk. 96 memories”, together with other Polish journalists, he created 96 reports about all the victims of the plane crash in which the Polish president died.

In “Szramy”, together with Witold Bereś, he described the catastrophic situation of Polish child psychiatry, as well as the problem of suicides among children and widespread intolerance.

As a journalist, he also describes the Polish criminal world. Together with Mateusz Baczyński, he wrote books about Polish anti-terrorists and policemen working undercover.

Janusz teaches journalism at the SWPS University in Warsaw.

In his private life, Janusz is a big football fan and admirer of two artists who had a great influence on his life: punkrock musician Robert Brylewski and film director Krzysztof Kieślowski.