The Maltese journalist will oversee the selection of winners of IJ4EU’s annual prize for cross-border watchdog journalism.
Paul Caruana Galizia, an award-winning Maltese journalist, will serve as the jury chair for the IJ4EU Impact Awards 2024, honouring excellence in cross-border investigative journalism in Europe.
Caruana Galizia, an editor and reporter at Tortoise Media, became a journalist after the assassination of his mother, Daphne Caruana Galizia, in 2017.
Since then, he has won an Orwell Prize Special Award, a British Journalism Award, a Press Award and numerous other honours for his reporting. He and his brothers have received a Magnitsky Human Rights Award and an Anderson-Lucas-Norman Award for their campaign to achieve justice for Daphne.
His book, A Death in Malta, won the Cornelius Ryan Award from the Overseas Press Club.
Caruana Galizia’s unwavering dedication to uncovering the truth and his exemplary reporting make him the perfect choice to lead the jury for this year’s IJ4EU Impact Award.
He is the fourth jury chair to oversee the selection of winners of the annual awards, which offer three cash prizes of €5,000 to journalistic teams that have pushed the envelope in reporting on transnational subjects.
Previous chairs were Hungarian freelance journalist Attila Mong; Joanna Krawcyzk, deputy managing director of the German Marshall Fund of the United States; and Shaun Walker, Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for The Guardian.
This year’s Impact Award ceremony will take place on September 26 at IJ4EU’s UNCOVERED Conference, hosted in partnership with the iMEdD International Journalism Forum in Athens.
