n-ost Reportage Award 2009 n-ost Reportage Award 2009: The winners set
ceremony are available on the press conference in Rostov on Don (Russia) on 11 October 2009
(n-ost) - The winners of the n-ost Reportage Award 2009 have been announced. From 70 entries, the jury selected in an anonymous method, the three best texts. "It is urgent reports, each touches its readers in its own way," says jury chairman Werner D'Inka. On 11 October, awarded the winners in Rostov on Don (Russia). The award ceremony is part of the 5th N-ost international media conference From 7 to the to 11 October 80 Western and Eastern European journalists in Rostov-take.
awarded the only prize of the n-east journalists reporting price outstanding texts on Central and Eastern Europe in the German media. It is endowed with 2,500 euros (1st prize), 1.000 € (2nd prize) and 500 € (3rd prize). N-ost authors encouraged with the report price extensive research and journalistic detail work, "says managing director Matthew n-ost Echterhagen.
The 2009 award winners are: 1st
Place: Michael Martens, 36, correspondent of the FAZ
Michael Martens spoke for his report "The torturers are still at night" (published on 07.20.2008 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sunday) with the Bulgarian nurses who had to spend eight years in the power of Libyan hijackers. Empathetic, he describes how they try, one year after their release, way back into everyday life.
second Place: Ljubic Nicol, 38, a freelance journalist
Nicol Ljubic has for his text, "Life has made them men" (published on 26.03.2009 in the star) in search of "sworn virgins" Albania made. Following a centuries-old custom set, these women are young girls as the pledge to remain chaste and live like a man, to feed their families or to escape an arranged marriage.
third Place: Oliver Bilger, 29, a volunteer of the Süddeutsche Zeitung
Oliver Bilger describes in "if military service makes defenseless" (published on 13.08.2008 in the Moscow German newspaper) one of the worst abuse cases in the Russian Army. He went to Andrei Sychev, the tormented his comrades so brutal that doctors had to amputate both his legs - and still nothing would do better than to go back to the military.
The jury consisted of:
Sabine Adler (director of the Capital Studios, Radio Germany)
Christian Boehme (chief editor of the Jewish general)
Werner D'Inka (editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung )
Tomasz Dąbrowski (Director of the Polish Institute in Berlin)
Markus Hipp (Executive Director of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt)
Henrik purchase wood (News Ombudsman of the newspaper Politiken, Denmark)
Uwe Leuschner (entrepreneurs)
Sonja Margolina (freelance journalist)
Uwe Neumann (Director of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe)
Horst Pöttker (Professor at the Institute of Journalism, University of Dortmund) and Ludmila
Rakusanova (VLP-director of the Institute for Regional Journalism, Prague).
were nominated the following additional features:
Thorsten Herdickerhoff: There is a sense of moral victory
(Stuttgarter Zeitung 19.08.2008)
Boris Herrmann: The returnees (Berlin newspaper, magazine, 24.05.2008)
January Pallokat: wheat without end (Die Zeit, 28.08.2008)
Andreas Unger: chrismon Mr. Makarevich feel for ice (, 03 / 2009)
Annabel Wahba: My cleaning lady comes home (Time, Magazine, 21/08/2008)
Elke Windisch: The Symphony of war (Daily Mirror, 25.08.2008)
By n-ost reportage award recognizes the network FS , r reporting on Eastern Europe texts that are characterized by thorough research, an unusual theme and excellent style. n-ost countries will and give the people of eastern Europe to a greater forum in the German media. It supports the n-ost-price report 2009 by the Polish Institute in Berlin.
The Network for Eastern European reporters n-ost lead media initiatives, journalists from some 20 countries. It combines a European look that goes from east to west. The focus of reporting from and about Eastern Europe. In this case, set n-ost-members for a strengthening of media freedom and against restrictions on journalistic work: The network organizes journalism training, Conferences, research trips and international media projects. supplied with an article and radio service n-ost media and radio stations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Source: Ulrike Gruska
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