The Volkskrant journalists Abel Bormans, Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra have won De Tegel in the News category. They won the prestigious journalism prize for their revelations about the working atmosphere at NOS Sport. The prizes were awarded on Monday evening in the Royal Theater in The Hague.
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Volkskrant journalists Abel Bormans, Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra have won the Tegel in the News category for their revelations about the working atmosphere in the editorial office of NOS Sport. “Good teamwork that made news, but did more than that. The Tile lights. Exposing practices that are unacceptable,” the jury of the journalism prize said in the jury report.
There were also tiles for journalistic work from and about various war zones. Rob Vreeken won the Tegel in the Reporting category in the Reporting category with his Volkskrant reports from Israel in the period shortly after the Hamas attack. Michiel Driebergen from Trouw took home the Tegel in the Foreign category for his pieces about the war in Ukraine. The Pionier-Tegel went to Daphne Wesdorp of the Nederlands Dagblad for her reports from Myanmar and Ukraine, which, according to the jury, were “made courageously and with courage”.
Sinan Can and Daniëlle van Lieshout, among others, also won prizes. Their documentary about Syria travelers won in the Background category. According to the jury, it tells “a special story with great social relevance”. The Tegel for regional journalism went to De Stentor reporter Gep Leeflang for his story about backroom politics in Dutch municipalities. The jury praised his piece as “beautiful journalistic excavation of administrative culture”. The prize for the best interview went to Stijn Bronzwaer. He interviewed Ali Niknam, CEO of online bank Bunq.
In addition, the prize in the Data category went to Sebastiaan Grosscurt, Marieke Rotman, Felix Voogt, Pim van Hulst, Niek Opten, Leo van Raaij and Niek Megens for their project Farmers without borders. Platform Investico developed a method to map out for the entire Netherlands the scale at which farmers wrongly register government plots, so-called “roadside fraud”. The research provides insight into the scale of this problem for the first time: an area the size of Amsterdam.
The Storimans Tegel went to Jacko van ‘t Hof for his camera work on ‘Dokter Ruben’. The research tile went to In-Soo Radstake for the documentary ‘Indie Verloren… Selling a colonial war’, which shows how Dutch politics tried to sell the colonial war in Indonesia through propaganda and censorship. Read more about the winning productions here
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