Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism 2024: invitation to award ceremony | News

Accredited journalists are cordially invited to join the award ceremony, which will be opened by the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola. The finalists are also invited to join the ceremony, with one of them having been chosen by the Jury members as the winner of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism 2024.

Discover here the 13 finalists’ works.

The winner will be officially announced by a representative of last year’s laureates, a Greek, German and British consortium, who won for an investigation on the Adriana shipwreck, which left over 600 migrants dead off Pylos in Greece.

Programme

18.00 Welcome by Vice-President Pina Picierno followed by opening speech by President Roberta Metsola

18.15 Speech by the President of the Berlin Press Club and representative of the jury, Juliane Hielscher

18.30 Announcement of 2024 winner by 2023 laureates, followed by speech by the 2024 winner

18.45 Closing of ceremony by Vice-President Pina Picierno

18.50 Photo opportunity

19.00 Reception at the private salon C0.1 (opposite the press bar)

You can follow the event via webstreaming or by EbS.

Press seminar on “Safeguarding Media Freedom: the role of the European Union”

Just before the award ceremony, a press seminar is being organised on “Safeguarding Media Freedom: the role of the European Union”. The seminar begins at 15:00 in room Weiss S2.2, with an introduction by EP Vice-President Pina Picierno. A panel of journalists will then discuss the continued threats to media and press freedom, through their personal experience. The seminar will be closed by the speeches of Matthew Caruana Galizia, son of Daphne Caruana Galizia, and Vice-President Picierno.

Journalists who would like to join the seminar online, please write a mail to European Parliament Media Seminars [email protected] to get the link.

Background

The Prize, with the support of the European Parliament, is a tribute to the Maltese investigative journalist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was assassinated in October 2017. It rewards, on a yearly basis, outstanding journalism that promotes or defends the core principles and values of the European Union, such as human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and human rights.

The Prize is open to professional journalists and teams of professional journalists of any nationality to submit in-depth stories that have been published or broadcast by a media outlet based in one of the 27 European Union member states. From 3 May to 31 July 2024, more than 300 applications were submitted by journalists from the 27 EU countries for this fourth edition of the Prize.

The Prize itself, and the €20,000 prize money, demonstrate the European Parliament’s strong support for investigative journalism and the protection of journalists around the world.