Carolina Neurath Wins Per Wendel Prize

Carolina Neurath, currently a journalist for Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet, has been investigating the financial sector for several years, among other things writing the book  Den stora bankhärvan: Finansparet Hagströmer och Qvibergs uppgång och fall (The big bank affair: finance pair Hagströmer and Qviberg’s rise and fall).

“When I heard I’d won the prize I was a bit stunned,” says Neurath. “It feels huge, and flattering.”

Neurath was awarded the prize for her sharp investigation of the economy and also her work in a broad range of different media.

“Carolina has, for a long time, had scoops about the financial world,” says Otto Sjöberg, chairman of the jury for the prize. “Previously, most winners have worked in traditional media, but Carolina works in several channels and social media. She crosses boundaries with ease. If Pelle Wendel had been working today, I’m sure he would have done the same thing and used social media.”

The prize includes SEK 75,000. The Per Wendel Prize was first given out in 2006, founded by Expressen’s then editor-in-chief Sjöberg in memory of Expressen journalist Per Wendel. Wendel was one of the paper’s most well-known reporters. He won the Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism in 1988.