Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism – call for submission of entries

On 4 May, the European Parliament officially launched the call for submissions for entries to the sixth edition of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism.

“Nine years since Daphne Caruana Galizia was brutally murdered, journalists around the world continue to be intimidated, threatened, and assassinated. The European Parliament stands by them in their fight for justice,” European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said.

The Prize is awarded each year around 16 October, the day of the journalist’s assassination.

The Prize rewards on a yearly basis outstanding journalism that promotes or defends the core principles and values of the European Union such as human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, rule of law, and human rights.

The Prize 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. 

The €20,000 annual prize will be awarded in October 2026 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

The deadline for applications is 31 July.

The Prizes in 2024 and 2025 were awarded to an investigation on missing unaccompanied child migrants (Lost in Europe) and a joint investigation on the Russian shadow fleet, coordinated by Follow the Money.

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