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Estonia's Bonnier Award Goes to Postimees Reporter Tuuli Koch

By Bert Menninga on 2011-03-03
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Tuuli Koch wins Estonia's most prestigious journalism prize, the Bonnier Award.

The Bonnier Award, Estonia's oldest and most prestigious journalism prize, was presented on Tuesday to Tuuli Koch, a reporter from daily newspaper Postimees. She won for her investigative reporting on Tallinn Mayor Edgar Saavisar's secret attempts to get funding from the president of the Russian state railway.

"I think it cleared the air to a certain extent," Koch said in an interview with business daily Äripäev after she won the award. "It made life easier for some and more difficult for others."

Investigative Reporting Wins Bonnier Award in Estonia

By Meelis Mandel on 2010-03-04
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The Bonnier Award, Estonia's biggest journalism prize, goes to Äripäev staff reporter Piret Reiljan.

Äripäev staff reporter Piret Reiljan won Estonia's oldest and most prestigious journalism prize, the Bonnier Award, given to the best investigative story of the year. Worth SEK 40,000, the Bonnier Award in Estonia was first given out in 1996.

Reiljan received the award for her story on Swedbank's conflict of interests, when the bank invested its pension funds' clients' money into bonds of enterprises that were getting loans from Swedbank itself.