Group picture after the presentation of the Axel Springer Prize for Young Journalism Photo: Christian Hahn
From BZ
The Axel Springer Prize for Young Journalism was awarded for the 32nd time on Wednesday evening.
The prize awarded by the FreeTech – Axel Springer Academy of Journalism and Technology is the most important prize for young journalists in German-speaking countries.
These are the award winners:
► politic and economy: Marcel Laskus (“Süddeutsche Magazin”), “Our life after death”.
► science and future: Lea Oetjen (“Mindener Tageblatt”), series “The last sip”.
► Entertainment: Alexander Gutsfeld (“Aachener Zeitung”), podcast series “Narcoland – The meth cartel in the border triangle”.
► Best team effort: Lukas Sam Schreiber, Tim Kleikamp, Vincent Oliva, Lenz Domingo Faas and Martin Schlak (RTL + / stern / One Pod Wonder), “A new medicine – the Biontech story”.
The €10,000 George Weidenfeld Prize for courageous reporting and investigative research went to Asami Terajima (“The Kyiv Independent”), who became a war reporter at the age of 22 during the attack on Ukraine.