Press Release
2025 Daphne Caruana Prize for Journalism: ten finalists shortlisted
The jury of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism has shortlisted ten investigations for the fifth edition of the award.
European missile group MBDA selling parts for bombs that have killed children in Gaza
Disclose, The Guardian, Follow the Money
The Forever Lobbying Project
Le Monde and various media outlets
Les forçats du cybercrime (Cyberslaves)
Paris Match
Wide-angle frame of death (part 1 and part 2)
Novosti
Dirty Payments
Mediapart, European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) and 20 media outlets
The Viktoriia Project
Forbidden Stories and various media outlets
‘Make a Molotov Cocktail’: How Europeans are recruited through Telegram to commit sabotage, arson and murder
Delfi, OCCRP, Paper Trail Media, Der Standard, Tamedia, ZDF, Re:Baltica
Ecocide in Iraq: How big oil companies are turning marshlands into deserts
IrpiMedia, JournalismFund Europe, IJ4EU
The Shadow Fleet Secrets
Follow the Money and various media outlets
Die unsichtbare Front
Missy Magazine
More information here.
Between 21 May and 31 July 2025, hundreds of journalists from the 27 EU countries submitted their stories for consideration. Ten out the of the 316 submissions were selected as finalists.
The winner will be announced in an award ceremony taking place on Tuesday 21 October 2025, in the evening, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg (Daphne Caruana Galizia Press Room). Finalists will be present in the ceremony as well as the seminar on Press Freedom which will be organised earlier on the same day.
An invitation to accredited journalists to attend both events will follow.
About the Prize
Launched in 2020, the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism is open to professional journalists and teams of professional journalists of any nationality, who can submit in-depth pieces that have been published or broadcast by media based in one of the 27 EU countries. An independent jury composed of representatives of the press and civil society from the 27 member states, as well as representatives of the main European journalists’ associations, will choose the winning entry. The prize and the €20 000 prize money demonstrate the European Parliament’s strong support for investigative journalism and the importance of a free press.
Past winners
2021 – “The Pegasus Project”, coordinated by the Forbidden Stories
2022 – Documentary on “The Central African Republic under Russian Influence” by Clément Di Roma and Carol Valade (ARTE/France24/Le Monde)
2023 – Joint investigation on the Pylos migrant boat shipwreck (Solomon, in collaboration with Forensis, StrgF/ARD, and The Guardian)
2024 – Investigation on missing unaccompanied child migrants (Lost in Europe)
Who was Daphne Caruana Galizia?
Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese journalist, blogger and anti-corruption activist who reported extensively on corruption, money laundering, organised crime, sale of citizenship and the Maltese government’s links to the Panama Papers. Following harassment and threats, she was murdered in a car bomb explosion on 16 October 2017. The outcry over the authorities’ handling of her murder investigation ultimately prompted the resignation of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. Critical of failings in the investigation, in December 2019, MEPs called on the European Commission to take action.
Contacts
John Schranz – Press officer
Daphne Caruana Galizia Journalism Prize Secretariat
Links
Website of the prize
https://daphnejournalismprize.eu/
