We are excited to introduce the esteemed jury for the IJ4EU Impact Award 2024! Comprised of leading journalists and media freedom advocates, this jury plays a crucial role in selecting the most impactful and innovative investigations published between October 2022 and December 2023.
In August 2024, the jury convened to review all nominations and select three exceptional winners who exemplify the highest standards in cross-border journalism. The winners will be announced on September 26 during the award ceremony at IJ4EU’s UNCOVERED Conference, held in the framework of the iMEdD International Journalism Forum in Athens.
Meet the IJ4EU Impact Award 2024 jury:
- Paul Caruana Galizia became a journalist at Tortoise after his mother was assassinated and since then has won an Orwell Prize special award, a British Journalism Award and Press Award, and other honours for his reporting. With his brothers, he has received a Magnitsky Human Rights Award and an Anderson-Lucas-Norman Award for campaigning to achieve justice for Daphne. His book A Death in Malta won the Cornelius Ryan Award from the Overseas Press Club.
- Gabriela Manuli is the Deputy Director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN), an association of 250 non-profit organisations in 91 countries dedicated to investigative reporting. In 2019, she co-founded the GIJN Women Group, a network created to discuss issues related to women and non-binary investigative journalists. A native of Argentina (and currently based in Budapest, Hungary), she has been a journalist for more than 20 years (working for radio, TV, magazines and newspapers) and has extensive international experience in Latin America, Europe and the United States.
- Nik Williams is a media freedom and free expression advocate based in Glasgow, who currently contributes to Index on Censorship‘s work on SLAPPs, digital rights and transnational repression. He is the co-chair of the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition and the convenor of the Scottish Anti-SLAPP Working Group. At ECPMF, he coordinated the inaugural year of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR), which responds to violations of media freedom in Europe. Previously, Nik led Scottish PEN’s campaigning and advocacy, focusing on defamation reform, free expression, digital rights and surveillance policy. Nik is also the co-chair of the investigative journalism co-op, The Ferret.
- Saranda Ramaj has been working at newspaper Koha Ditore since 2013. Her coverage includes public procurement, the justice system, and corruption in healthcare. Saranda systematically develops complex research in these fields unveiling irregularities, corruption and organised crime. With her stories, she also has prevented the signing of illegal tenders worth millions that were mainly policy-related businesses. In her eleven years as a journalist, she has been awarded 19 prizes for investigative journalism. Saranda was awarded Journalist of the Year 2022 in Kosovo. Since 2016, Saranda has also been conducting various studies with national and international non-profit organisations, especially in the areas of health policy and human rights.
