Shortlist 2025

Journalist or Russian Spy? The Strange Case of Pablo González

— by Shaun Walker, published by The Guardian, United Kingdom

Marwan Barghouti, the World’s Most Important Prisoner

— by Nicolas Pelham, published by The Economist's 1843 magazine, United Kingdom

René Damgaard Is Saying a Final Goodbye to Life and to His Niece

Runner-Up

— by Line Vaaben, published by Politiken, Denmark

The Poet’s Army

— by Guillaume Pajot, published by Revue XXI, France

Norway in Red, White, and Grey

— by Mads Nyborg Støstad, Ruben Solvang, Su Thet Mon, Anne Linn Kumano-Ensby, Patrick da Silva Sæther, Kari Anne Gisetstad Andersen, Sjur Seibt, published by NRK, Norway

Road to Redemption: How Israel’s War Against Hamas Turned Into a Springboard for Jewish Settlement in Gaza

Runner-Up

— by Yarden Michaeli, Avi Scharf, Idit Frenkel, Asi Oren, Uri Talshir, published by Haaretz, Israel

Segregated by the Wheel of Inequality in Spain: How Impoverished Neighbourhoods Become Hotspots for the Lower Educated

— by Raúl Sánchez, Victòria Oliveres, Ainhoa Díez, published by elDiario.es, Spain

This Yellow Glyphosate Map Reveals Where Farmers in the Netherlands Spray the Controversial Herbicide

— by Jan Daalder, Collin van Rooij, published by Follow the Money, RTV Drenthe, NH Nieuws, De Gelderlander, RTV Rijnmond, Omroep Zeeland, De Limburger, De Onderzoeksredactie Brabant (BN DeStem, Brabant Dagblad, Eindhovens Dagblad),

Bismarck’s Hut in the Forest – The most absurd tax haven in Germany

Runner-Up

— by Aiko Kempen, Laurenz Schreiner, Finn Starken, published by FragDenStaat, ZDF Magazin Royale, Germany

Deadly Prices – How Big Pharma Feeds Inequality in Europe

— by Christina Berndt, Eurydice Bersi, Lorenzo Buzzoni, Ingeborg Eliassen, Markus Grill, Maria Maggiore, Leila Minano, Maxence Peigné, Achim Pollmeier, Manuel Rico, Piret Reiljan, Leonard Scharfenberg, Nico Schmidt, Harald Schumann, Ralf Wiegand, published by Investigate Europe (Europe), Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Il Fatto Quotidiano (Italy), infoLibre (Spain), EUobserver (Europe), arte journal (France/Germany), Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland), Investigace.cz (Czech Republic), Partizán (Hungary), Investigatívne centrum Jána Kuciaka (Slovakia), Ostro (Slovenia), Der Standard (Austria), Monitor/ARD/tagesschau (Germany), Deutschlandfunk (Germany), Reporters United (Greece), EfSyn (Greece), The Journal (Ireland), openDemocracy (UK), British Medical Journal (UK), Trouw (Netherlands), Yle (Finland), Delfi (Latvia), 15min (Lithuania), EestiEkspress (Estonia), Klassenkampen (Norway), Tagesanzeiger (Switzerland), International

From Child Labour in the Mines – To Your Electric Car

— by Staffan Lindberg, Magnus Wennman, Sofia Boström, published by Aftonbladet, Sweden

The Silent Battle Between Putin and the West Over a Crucial Oil Pipeline

— by Carola Houtekamer, Karlijn Kuijpers, published by NRC, The Netherlands

3,000 Nautical Miles of Hope

— by Marian Blasberg, published by Der Spiegel, Germany

“Because if I Die, No One Will Care.” Children’s Day at the Border

— by Agnieszka Rodowicz, published by Oko.press, Poland

The Asylum King

— by Mark Wilding, published by Prospect Magazine, Liberty Investigates, United Kingdom

The Brutal Truth Behind Italy’s Migrant Reduction: Beatings and Rape by EU-Funded Forces in Tunisia

Runner-Up

— by Mark Townsend, published by The Guardian, United Kingdom

A Celebration of Selflessness

— by Hanno Rauterberg, published by DIE ZEIT, Germany

Life and Death in Putin’s Gulag

— by Arkady Ostrovsky, published by The Economist's 1843 magazine, United Kingdom

Memory Machines

Runner-Up

— by Jessica Traynor, published by The Dial, Ireland

The Immense Waste – UCLouvain and Women

— by Catherine Joie, Quentin Noirfalisse, published by Médor, Belgium