Winners of Volnaye Slova 2024 competition announced!
The results of the traditional annual Volnaye Slova (Free Word) contest, which aims to improve the professional skills of media workers and encourage talented journalists, were announced in Vilnius on September 12.
Andrei Bastunets, chairman of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, mentioned that the Volnaye Slova contest was initiated in 2006 by media manager Andrei Aliaksandrau.
«We are used to awarding prizes for courage, but why don’t we recognize the professionalism of journalists?
For the last two years the Volnaye Slova contest has been held under the auspices of the European Federation of Journalists, for which we are sincerely grateful,» Bastunets said.
This year, in all nominations, except for the «Investigative Journalism» nomination, the jury evaluated text and video materials separately. There was also a separate prize for the latter.
More than 140 journalistic works were submitted to the competition.
The list of winners and the titles of their works can be found in the Belarusian section of the website.