Sweden’s Top Journalists

Winners of the Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism, Sweden’s most prestigious awards of its kind, were announced at a ceremony in Stockholm this evening. Some 200 of the country’s leading media personalities gathered to see the winners, with each prize category is worth SEK 100,000. Among the winners were TV4’s Malou von Sivers, who won the Lukas Bonnier Grand Prize for Journalism for lifetime achievement. The awards were established in 1966 by Bonnier to support top work in journalism. The ceremony was live broadcast on Sweden’s biggest media sites.  

The winners of the four categories were:

Storyteller of the Year

Måns Mosesson, P1 Dokumentär, Swedish Radio 

Documentary series Rädda Sverige (Scared Sweden)

The jury wrote: “For, with respect and curiosity, listening to and asking well-timed questions to a scared Sweden.”

Innovator of the Year

Jack Werner, Linnea Jonjons, and Åsa Larsson, Metro 

Viralgranskaren (viral examiner), which measures the veracity of social media 

The jury wrote: “Because they created an ingenious method to uncover what is myth and what is reality in the viral world.”

Scoop of the Year

Dan Josefsson and Jenny Küttim 

The book Mannen som slutade ljuga (the man who stopped lying) and the TV documentary Kvinnan bakom Thomas Quick (the woman behind Thomas Quick)

The jury wrote: “Because, through the height of storytelling and the depth of research, they have gotten access to society’s most closed rooms and turned ​​a major revelation into something bigger.”

Lukas Bonnier’s Grand Prize for Journalism (for lifetime achievement)

Malou von Sivers, TV4

The jury wrote:  “Because she never settles down on the sofa.”

Program host for the evening was Eva Hamilton, outgoing CEO for Swedish Television. During the ceremony, she interviewed James Harding, the BBC’s director of News & Current Affairs, on how one of the world’s most watched news providers is changing its culture and journalism as news feeds go digital.