Press invitation to join the Award Ceremony
of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism 2022
The Award Ceremony will take place at 18.30, on Wednesday 19 October 2022, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg (Daphne Caruana Galizia Press Room).
Accredited journalists are cordially invited to join the Award Ceremony, which will be opened by the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola. Daphne Caruana Galizia’s son, Matthew Caruana Galizia, and the members of the European-wide jury of the Prize, will also attend.
The 11 finalists are invited to join the Award Ceremony, with one of them having been chosen by the Jury members as the Winner of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism 2022.
Discover the 11 finalist works here.
The winner will be officially announced by last year’s laureates, representatives of the Pegasus Project, coordinated by Forbidden Stories.
Programme
18.30 Welcome by Vice-President Pina Picierno followed by opening speech by President Roberta Metsola
18.45 Speech by the Secretary-General of the International Federation of Journalists, Anthony Bellanger
19.00 Announcement of 2022 winner by 2021 laureates, Pegasus Project/Forbidden Stories followed by speech by the 2022 winner
19.15 Closing of ceremony by Vice-President Pina Picierno
19.20 Photo opportunity
19.30 Reception at the Press Bar
English, French, German, and Italian interpretation will be available.
You can also follow the event via Webstreaming here or by Europe by Satellite here.
Just before the award ceremony, a seminar is being organised for the media on “Safeguarding Media Freedom: the role of the European Union”. The seminar begins at 15:00 with an introduction by EP Vice-President Pina Picierno and Matthew Caruana Galizia, the son of Daphne Caruana Galizia and an investigative journalist. A panel will then discuss the continued threats to media and press freedom, notably through the prism of Russia’s actions. The seminar will be then closed by EP President Roberta Metsola. You can watch the seminar here and also participate through interactio by going to this link.
A press kit related to the seminar and the award can be found here.
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 2022, more than 200 journalists from the 27 EU countries submitted work for this, second, 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.
Contacts:
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John SCHRANZ
Press Officer