Elena Kostyuchenko
Elena Kostyuchenko was selected for the 2023 Shortlist with Mykolaiv.
Elena Kostyuchenko is a Russian independent journalist. For 17 years she was a special correspondent of Novaya Gazeta, till the newspaper was shut down by Russian authorities in April 2022. She reported on conflict, crime, and social issues. Kostyuchenko was among the first to write about the presence of Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. She covered the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the second day of the war. She is also the author of two collections, Unwanted on Probation and It’s Us Who Will Live Here. Her work was acknowledged with multiple awards including European Press Prize, the Gerd Bucerius Award-Free Press of Eastern Europe, and Paul Klebnikov Prize.
Daniel Howden
Daniel Howden 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.
Daniel is a founder and director of Lighthouse Reports. He’s a writer, editor and reporter who has worked in print, online and documentary film. In recent years his work has focused on migration and the rise of the surveillance industry. He’s reported from more than 50 countries and spent much of his career as a foreign correspondent for the Economist, the Guardian and the Independent, after starting out at Reuters. He was Visiting Fellow at Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre and was Senior Editor at Refugees Deeply.