Sevgil Musaeva and two other Ukrainian journalists became laureates of the Hans-Joachim Friedrichs Prize

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Three Ukrainian journalists received a special German prize named after Hans Joachim Friedrichs. The prize winners were the editor-in-chief of “Ukrainian Pravda” Sevgil Musaeva, the co-founder of the “Hromadske” channel Nataliya Humenyuk, and the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Kyiv Independent Olha Rudenko, the award website reports. According to the organizers of the award, female journalists represent all those who perform professional work in extremely difficult and dangerous conditions. “The winners of the award and their media are published not only in Ukrainian, but also in English, thereby offering important and, above all, independent sources for an international audience,” the award’s website says. Winners of the award The organizers of the award noted that journalists are representatives of that Ukrainian generation, which has long been fighting for freedom of speech, democracy and transparency. “It is this generation that the Kremlin is especially afraid of and wants to destroy,” say the organizers. Hans Joachim Friedrichs is a German TV journalist who is called “the godfather of serious German TV culture”. Friends and colleagues have founded a television journalism award in his honor, which is awarded to critical and impartial journalists. The jury includes the founders and previous laureates of the award. Read also: The “Golden Dzyga” award announced the best documentary film

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