European Press Prize

The European Press Prize is an award programme for excellence in journalism across all 47 countries of Europe. It was founded in 2012 by seven European media foundations.

Nominations open each year on November 1 and close in December. In February the shortlists are announced. The prizes are awarded during the European Press Prize Ceremony in April. The first one was in De Balie in Amsterdam in 2013, the 2014 awards were given at the Reuters headquarters in London and in 2015 the European Press Prize visited the JP/Politiken headquarters in Copenhagen. The 2016 awards were presented in Prague.

The European Press Prize was devised and founded in Amsterdam by the following people and foundations:

In 2015, The Irish Times Trust joined the European Press Prize.

The Foundation’s Bureau for all organizational and administrative matters is based in Amsterdam. The executive director is Thomas van Neerbos.

Awards will be given in four separate categories with prizes for each of €10,000:

From 2013 on, the judges will be empowered to award a special prize for particular excellence in editing or any other discipline, including reporting, feature write and advocacy.

In 2012 the awards were the following:

Before the Jury sees the work, all of the submitted work is reviewed by a preparatory committee. It will start by evaluating all entries and preparing a shortlist comprised out of a maximum of six entries per category. The preparatory committee consists of :

Peter Preston was editor of the Guardian in London for twenty years. He is now co-director the Guardian Foundation. Before becoming editor, Preston worked as political reporter, war correspondent and daily columnist. Today, he writes a weekly page of media comment for the Observer. Preston served as world chairman of the International Press Institute and as chairman of the Association of British Editors. He has published two novels.

Denis Staunton is the Deputy Editor of The Irish Times. He joined The Irish Times in 1997. Before that he reported for the Observer and The Guardian.

Denis Staunton previously worked as Foreign Editor. As a foreign correspondent based in Berlin, Brussels and Washington he has reported at various stages from almost all the countries of the European Union and from the European institutions, parts of the Middle East and throughout North America. He also presents the Irish Times’ World View podcast on foreign affairs.

Timothy Large is Editor-in-Chief of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the world’s leading provider of news and information. He is responsible for four global news services run by the Foundation: AlertNet, the world’s humanitarian news site, The Emergency Information Service (EIS) for disaster-affected populations, TrustLaw, a global hub of news and information on anti-corruption, women’s rights and free legal assistance and Trust.org, the Foundation’s portal site. Before joining the Foundation in 2003 he was a correspondent for Reuters News in Tokyo, a staff writer for a major Japanese daily newspaper and news editor of a popular online science magazine. As a freelance journalist he has written widely on humanitarian themes, social issues, economics, science, literature and the arts. He is a photojournalist.

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