Shortlist 2023

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The travelling tribunal

— by Johannes Böhme, published by Die Zeit, Germany

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The alternative Balkan postal system

— by Ilir Gashi and Dina Hajrullahu and Arrita Katona (story illustrations, design and animation), published by Kosovo 2.0, Kosovo

All she wanted was a photo of the new-born babies and asked that István and Tamás love the twins

— by Luca Pintér, Orsi Ajpek (photographer), published by Telex.hu, Hungary

Sámi for life

— by Lena Bjurström, Thomas Dévényi (photographer), published by Les Jours, France

Poland’s ministry of memory spins the Holocaust

Runner-Up

— by Katia Patin , published by Coda Story, Georgia

The
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Russian Asset Tracker

— by Juliette Garside, Simon Goodley, Jasper Jolly, Kalyeena Makortoff, Antonio Baquero, Lara Dihmis, Alex Dziadosz, Jared Ferrie, Brian Fitzpatrick, Kevin Hall, Ilya Lozovsky, Eli Moskowitz, Will Neal, Stelios Orphanides, Miranda Patrucic, Olesya Shmagun, Graham Stack, Tom Stocks, Drew Sullivan, Julia Wallace, Jonny Wrate, Jan Strozyk, Lara Dihmis, Misha Gagarin, Karina Shedrofsky, Alina Tsogoeva, Ivana Jeremić, Olena LaFoy, Bojana Pavlović, Dima Stoianov, Romina Colman, Ilia Donskikh, Nathan Jaccard, James O’Brien, Edin Pašović, Mark Nightingale, published by OCCRP, The Guardian, Anti-Corruption Data Collective, Bird.bg, Delfi Estonia, Follow the Money, Forbes, Frontstory.pl, infoLibre, Inside Story, Investigative Center of Jan Kuciak, Investigace.cz, IrpiMedia, MANS, Miami Herald, Le Monde, NDR, Oštro, profil, Re:Baltica, Reporter.lu, Siena.lt, SVT, Tamedia, De Tijd, Transparency International UK,

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Barrio Salamanca

— by Elena Sanz (editor journalist), Rocío Márquez (visual journalist), Laura Martín (visual journalist), Luis Rodríguez (developer) and Fernando Anido (developer), Darío Ojeda (data journalist),…

Reconstructing the Melilla Massacre

— by Klaas van Dijken, Maud Jullien, Bashar Deeb, Jack Sapoch, Beatriz Ramalho da Silva, Aziz Alnour, Alison Killing, María Martín, Kiko Llaneras, José Antonio, Arthur Weil-Rabaud, José Bautista,…

Ailing Brussels

Runner-Up

— by Karim Douïeb, Catherine Joie, Quentin Noirfalisse, Antoine Sanchez, published by Médor Magazine, Belgium

The demographic, political and economic power of each generation of Romanians

— by Edit Gyenge, published by Panorama, Romania

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Death Weapons: Inside a Teenage Terrorist Network

— by Alexander Nabert (Project Leader, reporter, insider in the network), Christina Brause (Head of data, reporter), Bryan Bender (addition reporting for the US), Nick Robyns-Early (addition reporting for the US), published by Welt Am Sonntag, POLITICO, Germany

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Flight of the Predator: Jet linked to Israeli spyware tycoon delivers surveillance tech from the EU to notorious Sudanese militia

— by Crofton Black (reporter), Daniel Howden (editor), Gabriel Geiger (reporter), Eliza Triantafillou (reporter), Tasos Telloglou (reporter), Omer Benjakob (reporter), Avi Scharf (editor), Tomas…

Here’s the price for your new H&M clothes

— by Staffan Lindberg , published by Aftonbladet, Sweden

Ukrainian Supreme Court Judge With Russian Citizenship

— by Heorhii Shabaiev, Natalie Sedletska, published by Radio Svoboda, Ukraine

The Great Green Investment Investigation

Runner-Up

— by Ties Joosten, Ties Gijzel, Yara van Heugten, Remy Koens, Tom Bolsius, Leon de Korte, Linda van der Pol, Emiel Woutersen, Daniele Grasso, Carlotta Indiano, Fabio Papetti, Mathias Hagemann-Nielsen,…

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The long road to a home in Europe

— by Maartje Bakker, César Dezfuli, published by de Volkskrant, Netherlands

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Sacrificed lives: on Romanian women looking after elderly people in Italy

— by Elena Stancu, published by Libertatea, Teleleu.eu, Romania

Borders Inc: the migration control industry

Runner-Up

— by José Bautista, Alberto Alonso, Rocío Márquez, Emma Esser, Fernando Anido, Marta Ley, Laura Martín, Ángel Villarino, Alba Solla, Juan Aguilar, Ana Rojas, Marta Nevot, Nicolás Ribas, Ana Álvarez,…

Ammar in the Polish wardrobe: A story about hiding refugees on the Polish-Belarusian border

— by Joanna Łopat- Réno, Włodzimierz Nowak (editor), Karol Grygoruk (photographer), published by OKO Press, Poland

Silent Graves

— by Tamara Opačić, published by Novosti Weekly, Croatia

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“She lost consciousness as it was happening and she’s actually grateful she did.” What we know about the rapes perpetrated in Ukraine by Russian soldiers

— by Alla Konstantinova, published by Mediazona, Russia

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Manana

— by Roberta Nikšić, published by polis.ba (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Ajfelov Most,

The eye of the whale

Runner-Up

— by Katarzyna Boni, published by Książki. Magazyn do Czytania, Poland

The Experience of Powerlessness Changes Everything

— by Katja Artsiomenka , published by Zeit Online, 10 nach 8, Germany

Defined by silence

— by Kateryna Botanova, published by Eurozine,

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Suicide missions, abuse, physical threats: International Legion fighters speak out against leadership’s misconduct

— by Anna Myroniuk, Alexander Khrebet, published by The Kyiv Independent, Ukraine

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Mykolaiv

— by Elena Kostyuchenko, published by Novaya Gazeta, Russia

The Last Witness

Runner-Up

— by Alexandra Rojkov, published by DER SPIEGEL, Germany

‘Why? Why? Why?’ Ukraine’s Mariupol descends into despair

— by Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka (photojournalist), Lori Hinnant (correspondent), Vasilisa Stepanenko (reporter), published by The Associated Press, United States

To Hell and Back

— by Cathrin Kahlweit, published by Süddeutsche Zeitung Verlag, Germany