Awarded EU awards for investigative journalism

For the eighth time, the European Union has awarded awards for investigative journalism.

The winner of the first award of the European Union for investigative journalism for 2022 is the research team of KRIK for the series of articles about the criminal clan of Darko Šarić.

BIRN and "Vremena" journalist Jelena Zorić is the winner of a long award for texts that reveal a case of abuse in healthcare, that is, about doctors who entered false diagnoses.

Jelena Zoric

In addition to Jelena Zorić, the team of journalists from the Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS) - Teodora Ćurčić, Jovana Tomić and Stefan Marković - received the second prize for a series of articles on the financing of political parties.

Third place was shared by NIN journalist Vuk Cvijić and CINS journalists Dina Đorđević and Jovana Tomić, who, together with Saša Dragojla and Marija Ristić from BIRN, worked on the article about arms exports from Serbia to Myanmar.

This year, the jury decided to award five prizes instead of three, and they justified this by the fact that it was necessary due to the uniform quality of investigative stories.

The jury this year included Snježana Milivojević, a professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Tamara Skroza, a journalist and member of the Press Council, and Saša Leković, president of the Center for Investigative Journalism of Croatia. They evaluated more than 30 submitted works.

The EU Award for Investigative Journalism was established in 2015 and is awarded for outstanding journalistic efforts in six countries of the Western Balkans and Turkey to promote media freedom and highlight the importance of investigative work in countries where the role of independent media is extremely important.

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