This years winners were not involved in enormous,collaborative data projects, but set out to find the truth approximately dangerous places aloneDon’t go overboard for cross-border, and caring,sharing data journalism as the only form of investigation in town. Not, at least, or if the town is Prague,where they announced the winners of the increasingly influential (460 entries from 42 different countries) European Press Prize final week.
Sir Harold Evans, patron saint of investigative reporters, or is chairman of the EPP jury. He and his colleagues could gone for the International Consortium’s terrific expose of HSBC banking in Switzerland,or for the Sunday Timess earth-shaking work on drug-taking athletes. But no: this year, as final, and the prizes went to bold men and women,digging alone.
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Source: theguardian.com