The Global Shining Light Award was awarded to a team a journalists from Eastern Europe for their investigation on the corruption within the moldovan regime. Their investigation was supported by the Danish agency Scoop. Those awarded were : Vitalie Calugarearenu, Vlad Lavrov, Stefen Candea, Dumitru Lazur and Irina Codrean.
Also distributed was the Daniel Pearl 2010 award to three teams of reporters. Firstly, a special certificate was handed to Stephen Engelberg, from ProPublica, for the moving series of articles about the return of soldiers to the United States and their abandonement from the governement when seeking medical support. In the US category, the prize was attributed to weekly magazine The Nation for investigating the suspicious funding of Talibans by a private american army. Finally, in the International category, the prize was given to an exemplary transnational collaboration between Norway, Great Britain, Holland and the Ivory Coast. They worked together to trace an unveil the suspicious trafficking of toxic waste by international company, Trafigura.
This year, the Global Investigative Journalism Conference has created a special award – the Odyssey Award - in order to recognize the tenacity, determination and resourcefulness of certain of our colleagues, which enabled them to brave volcanic and adverse forces and eventually, join us in Geneva.
The Odyssey Award goes to:
- John Grobler (The Namibian, Namibia)
- Jan Furuly (Afterposten, Norway)
- Minna Knus-Galan (SpotlightYLE, Finland)
and Fatuma Noor (Nairobi Star, Kenya).