ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award Winners
2025
Venezuela (In Exile)
Co-Founder and Director, El Pitazo
Philip Obaji Jr.
Nigeria
Correspondent, The Daily Beast
2024
Kenya
Co-Founder, Chief Executive and Editorial Director, Africa Uncensored
Valeriya Yegoshyna
Ukraine
Investigative Journalist, Schemes
Rana Sabbagh
ICFJ Knight Trailblazer Award
Jordan
Senior Editor, OCCRP and Co-Founder, ARIJ
2023
Lebanon
Investigative Journalist, Al Jadeed
Mariam Ouédraogo
Burkina Faso
Reporter, Sidwaya2022
Ukraine
Visual Journalist, Freelance Photojournalist, Freelance Video Producer
Afghanistan
Television Reporter
ICFJ Knight Trailblazer Award
El Salvador
Co-Founder and Director, El Faro
2021
Czech Republic
Founder, Czech Center for Investigative Journalism
Brazil
Chief Executive Officer, Agência Lupa
2020
Egypt
Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Mada Masr
ICFJ Knight Trailbazer Award
Russia
Founder, IStories
2019
Kenya
Reporter, NTV
Serbia
Founder and Editor-in-chief, Crime and Corruption Reporting Network
2018
Philippines
Founder and Executive Editor, Rappler
Venezuela
Editor-in-chief and Co-founder, Armando.info
2017
Syria
Photojournalist and Videojournalist
Pakistan
Journalist and Filmmaker
2016
Mexico
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lead Reporter and Regional Editor, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
2015
Priyanka Dubey
India
Freelance Investigative Reporter
Cuba
Blogger and Founder, 14ymedio.com
2014
Mexico
Freelance
Nigeria
Editor, Sunday Punch
2013
Russia
Investigative Reporter, Novaya Gazeta
Pakistan
Founder, Center for Investigative Reporting
2012
Sami Mahdi
Afghanistan
News director, 1TV
Kassim Mohamed
Kenya
Senior correspondent, Star FM
2011
Sandra Rodríguez Nieto
Mexico
Investigative reporters, El Diario de Juárez
Cambodia
Documentary filmmaker
2010
Brazil
Investigative reporter, Tribuna de Minas
Indonesia
Radio news pioneer, KBR68H
2009
China
Newspaper reporter, Southern Weekend
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Radio journalist and founder, South Kivu Association of Women Journalists
2008
Belarus
Editor-in-chief, Novy Chas
Uganda
Human rights reporter
2007
Egypt
Editor, Misr Digital blog
Burma
Investigative reporter
2006
Iraq
Chief correspondent, BBC Radio
Croatia
Editor, Feral Tribune
2005
Indonesia
Editor-in-chief, Tempo
Brazil
Founder and president, Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (ABRAJI)
Sudan
Editor and co-founder, Al-Ayam
2004
Ali Djerri
Algeria
President and publisher, El Khabar
Romania
Co-founder, Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism (CRJI)
Paul Klebnikov
Editor, Forbes Russia
(In memoriam) Accepted by Helen Train Klebnikov
2003
José António Belo
East Timor
Cameraman, Associated Press Television
Corina Cepoi and the Independent Journalism Center
Moldova
Director
José Rubén Zamora
Guatemala
Editor, El Periódico
2002
Mahassen al-Emam
Jordan
Director, Arab Women Media Center
Andrew Kromah
Sierra Leone
Manager and owner, KISS-FM
2001
Adam Komers
Czech Republic
News presenter, Vecernik
Geoffrey Nyarota
Zimbabwe
Editor-in-chief, The Daily News
Eugenia Apostol
Philippines
Founder, Pinoy Times
2000
African Eye News Service (AENS)
South Africa
Andrei Babitsky
Chechnya
Reporter, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
1999
Bharat Dutta Koirala
Nepal
Secretary General, Nepal Press Institute
Helena Luczywo
Poland
Deputy editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza
1998
Anna Zarkova
Bulgaria
Reporter, Trud
Enrique Zileri Gibsón
Peru
CEO, Caretas
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