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13/06/2025

🏆 The 2025 European Press Prize – Distinguished Reporting Award
goes to “Did Something Happen to Mom When She Was Young?”
by Jessica Bateman

This powerful investigation reveals how, after Greece’s civil war, thousands of children were taken from their families—often under coercion—and sent abroad in a wave of politically motivated, black-market adoptions. Jessica Bateman carefully reconstructs how these events unfolded and how they laid the groundwork for the international adoption industry as we know it.

🗣 What the EPP judges said:

“The personal and political are skillfully intertwined to give these individual stories a wider resonance… brilliantly brought to life.”

📖 Published by POLITICO
🌍 Read the full story for free, in 5 languages on kompreno: app.kompreno.eu/free/en

11/06/2025

🏆 The 2025 Innovation Award for the European Press Prize goes to…
“Under Surveillance. How Location Data Jeopardizes German Security” by Katharina Brunner, Rebecca Ciesielski, Ingo Dachwitz, Sebastian Meineck & Maximilian Zierer

This exceptional investigation reveals how location data from millions of smartphones—collected by everyday apps—ends up on the open market. Reporters accessed 3.6 billion data points, exposing not only daily habits and commutes, but also the whereabouts of individuals tied to the military, intelligence services, and national security.

🗣 As the judges said:

“A clever idea to use these techniques against the people who are doing it to us. They completely nailed it, in a responsible way. The scale of what is there for sale was just shocking.”

📖 Published by netzpolitik.org , BR - Bayerischer Rundfunk , DIE ZEIT , and DER SPIEGEL
🌍 Available for free, in 5 languages on kompreno: app.kompreno.eu/free/en

09/06/2025

🏆 The 2025 Investigative Reporting Award goes to…
“Serving Moscow” by Măriuța Nistor and Natalia Zaharescu
📖 Published by Ziarul de Gardă, Moldova

In a bold and fearless investigation, the team at Ziarul de Gardă infiltrated the network of pro-Russian oligarch Ilan Șor to reveal how tens of thousands of Moldovans were paid to attend rallies and vote against pro-EU candidate Maia Sandu during the 2024 elections.

Hidden cameras, false identities, and meticulous documentation exposed the scale and method of Russia’s electoral interference in Moldova.

🗣 The judges called it:

“A mind-blowing undercover investigation showing how Russian money and networks of influence operated in Moldova — paying off people in cash to show up at rallies and vote against pro-EU candidate Maia Sandu.”

🌍 Read it for free, in 5 languages: app.kompreno.eu/free/en

05/06/2025

🏆 And the winner is…
The 2025 European Press Prize – Public Discourse Award goes to:
“Mothers at the End of the World” by Katarzyna Boni

Through her personal journey to Spitsbergen and reflections on scientific expeditions to Antarctica, Boni explores motherhood in a time of environmental crisis. Her essay asks what responsibilities we bear for our children and how to raise them when the world around us is changing dramatically.

🏅 What the judges said:

“An original piece that interweaves personal experience, climate change, parenting, and the carbon footprint.”
“Almost a piece of moral philosophy which was skillfully told.”

📖 Published by Książki Magazyn at Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland
🌍 Available to read for free, in 5 languages: app.kompreno.eu/free/en

03/06/2025

🏆 We have a winner!
The 2025 European Press Prize – Migration Journalism Award goes to:
“Growing Up ‘Non-Western’ in Denmark’s Nanny State” by Gabriela Galvin

In Denmark’s “parallel societies” – official government designations for areas where many residents are immigrants – children must be enrolled in daycare at just one year old, or their families risk losing access to public benefits. The goal: to instill Danish “traditions, norms, and values.”

Gabriela Galvin’s in-depth article looks at how these rules affect the families they target—and what it means to grow up under such scrutiny.

🏅 What the judges said:

“A brilliantly nuanced and detailed piece, which looked at all complexities of immigration and migration in Europe.”
“A really complex migration story which is well reported with tons of context.”

📖 Published by New Lines Magazine
🌍 Read it for free, in 5 languages: app.kompreno.eu/free/en

29/05/2025

The winners of this year's European Press Prize have been announced!

Read them for free, in your language at https://app.kompreno.eu/free

26/05/2025

📣 EPP 2025 Nominee Series | Mass surveillance by smartphone

3.6 billion data points. Millions of smartphones.
This investigative team uncovered how location data, freely traded by brokers, can be used to reconstruct the daily movements of countless people—including those presumed to work for German or foreign intelligence agencies.

An alarming look at what happens when digital footprints meet national security risks.

Project by Katharina Brunner, Rebecca Ciesielski, Ingo Dachwitz, Sebastian Meineck, and Maximilian Zierer.
Published by BR - Bayerischer Rundfunk /BR24, netzpolitik.org, and tagesschau /ARD.

🏅 Nominated for the European Press Prize – Investigative Reporting Award 2025
🌍 Read the article for free, in 5 languages: app.kompreno.eu/free/en

23/05/2025

📣 EPP 2025 Nominee Series | Children's Day at the border

“Because if I die, no one will care.” These are the words of Hila, a young Afghan woman who fled the Taliban and reached the Polish-Belarusian border, only to find herself trapped between violence and indifference.

In this deeply moving report by Agnieszka Rodowicz, published by OKO.press , Hila’s journey reveals the brutal realities faced by refugees at Europe’s frontiers—from violent pushbacks to the desperate leap that broke her spine.

🏅 Nominated for the Press Prize – Migration Journalism Award 2025
🌍 Read it for free, in 5 languages: app.kompreno.eu/free/en

21/05/2025

📣 EPP 2025 Nominee Series | 🧠 What happens when memory becomes infrastructure?

In Ireland, data centres now dot the landscape—quiet, humming servers holding our photos, writings, and digital records.

In “Memory Machines”, poet and essayist Jessica Traynor () delves into the cultural and environmental implications of this shift: How do we preserve memory in the digital age, and at what cost?

Originally published by The Dial, The Guardian, Aftenposten, and The New Hibernia Review, this piece is a meditation on technology, legacy, and our increasingly fragile relationship with permanence.

🏅 Nominated for the European Press Prize – Public Discourse Award 2025
🌍 Read it for free, in 5 languages: app.kompreno.eu/free/en

19/05/2025

📌 EPP 2025 Nominee Series | ✨ Rethinking public infrastructure as a cultural value

The crisis in Germany’s rail system is often discussed in technical or financial terms. But in “A Celebration of Selflessness,” Hanno Rauterberg argues that it’s also a cultural crisis.

This thought-provoking essay—originally published by DIE ZEIT—calls for a return to civic pride, long-term thinking, and shared responsibility. What if we saw infrastructure not just as service, but as a symbol of dignity and collective ambition?

🏅 Nominated for the European Press Prize – Public Discourse Award 2025
🌍 Available to read for free, in 5 languages: app.kompreno.eu/free/en

15/05/2025

Header: 📣 EPP 2025 Nominee Series | 🌱 Where glyphosate hits closest to home

What if you could see exactly where controversial herbicides are being sprayed—in your town, near your school, or over your drinking water?

That’s exactly what this investigation does. In “This Yellow Glyphosate Map Reveals…”, journalists Jan Daalder and Collin van Rooij work with a network of Dutch media outlets to map glyphosate and herbicide use across the country.

The findings are alarming: frequent spraying in protected water zones, near primary schools, and close to biodiversity hotspots.

📰 Published by Follow the Money, RTV Drenthe, NH Nieuws, De Gelderlander, RTV Rijnmond, Omroep Zeeland, De Limburger, and De Onderzoeksredactie Brabant (BN DeStem, Brabant Dagblad, Eindhovens Dagblad).
🏅 Nominated for the 2025 European Press Prize – Innovation Award

📚 Read it for free, in 5 languages: app.kompreno.eu/free/en

13/05/2025

📣 EPP 2025 Nominee Series | ⚓ 3,000 Miles Below Deck

In “3,000 Nautical Miles of Hope”, four Nigerian men hide inside the rudder shaft of a cargo ship leaving the port of Lagos. Their dream: to reach Europe.

But the ship turns south. It takes the old transatlantic slave route and eventually lands in Brazil—thousands of miles from where they hoped to go.

With power and restraint, Marian Blasberg captures the desperation, the courage, and the quiet calculations that push people into extraordinary risks.

📰 Published by DER SPIEGEL (Germany)
🏅 Nominated for the 2025 European Press Prize – Migration Journalism Award

📚 Read it for free, in 5 languages: app.kompreno.eu/free/en

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