Awards
Forbidden Stories has received many prestigious prizes. They confirm the quality and the impact of its investigations, as well as the adherence to its mission, encouraging us to continue to keep stories alive.
Awards in 2024
- Otto Brenner Stiftung Medienprojektpreis (2024) – For the Gaza Project.
- Emmy Award (2024) in the Outstanding Investigative Documentary Category – For Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus with Frontline PBS, Arte, BBC, Forbidden Films, Mediawan.
- IJ4EU Impact Award (2024) – For Story Killers.
- Covering Climate. Now Journalism Award for large projects and collaborations (2024) – For the Bruno and Dom Project
Awards in 2023
- Prix Simón Bolívar, special jury recognition for the investigative journalism prize (2023) – For The Rafael Project
- Premios de la Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa, mention spéciale of the in-depth journalism award (2023) – For The Rafael Project
- Online Journalism Awards, winner of the Excellence in Collaboration and Partnerships Award (2023) – For Story Killers.
Awards in 2022
- Online Journalism Awards (2022), winner of the Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Large Newsroom – For The Pegasus Project
- #IJ4EU Impact Award(2022) – For The Pegasus Project.
Awards in 2021
- George Polk Award (2021), for “Technology Reporting” – For the Pegasus Project.
- Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom Awards (2021), in the impact category – For the Pegasus Project.
- Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism (2021) – For the Pegasus Project.
- DIG (2021), Watchdog Award – For the Pegasus Project.
- Human Rights Film Festival Berlin, Honorary Award for Freedom and Democracy (2021) – For Forbidden Stories.
- Maria Moors Cabot Prizes, Special Citation (2021) – For Regina Martínez and the Cartel Project.
- #IJ4EU Impact Award (2021) – For The Daphne Project.
Awards before 2020
- George Polk Award, Special Award (2020) – For Regina Martínez and the Cartel Project.
- Lorenzo Natali Media Prize (2020) – For the Green Blood project
- European Press Prize, Special Award (2019).
- Grand Prix of Journalism of the Year, at Assises Internationales du Journalisme (2018).
- Prix Europa, Outstanding Achievement Award : European Journalist of the Year (2018) – For Laurent Richard, Forbidden Stories’ founder
- Online Journalism Awards, finalist of the Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Small Newsroom (2018) – For the Daphne Project
- Prix Europa, Best European TV Documentary Series of the Year (2020) – For the Green Blood project
- Prix Albert Londres, shortlisted twice (2018 and 2020) for the audiovisual prize
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