The Valya Krushkina – Journalism for the people Awards 2020 was presented for the ninth time

1. Electronic media: Maria Vankova – Winner in the category of electronic media In this most contested category, Maria’s runners-up are Ivaylo Vezenkov and Desislava Rizova. Here are the materials that deserved their place in the top three:
1. Maria Vankova, bTV Media Group – Nominated material – bTV reporters: “Medicine at any cost”
2. Ivaylo Vezenkov, Free Europe – Nominated material – “I was 6. I wanted to pick dandelions.” Is there a cure for children who have experienced violence
3. Desislava Rizova, bTV Media Group – Nominated material – bTV reporters: The Kamchia Project
2.Writing journalist
Here are the top 3 writing journalists. The winner of the award is Spas Spasov with material about the murky secrets of Varna Lake, worth millions. Spas won in an equal race with the materials of Nikolay Staykov and Marieta Dimitrova.
1. Spas Spasov, Dnevnik, Capital – Nominated material: Question for 5 million euros emerges from the murky bottom of Varna Lake
2. Nikolay Staykov, Anti-Corruption Fund – Nominated material: The whole story of “The Eight Dwarfs” – everything we couldn’t tell in the movies
3. Marieta Dimitrova, Blagoevgrad News Information Agency – Nominated material: To buy media comfort with the taxpayers’ money: How did the municipality of Blagoevgrad distribute nearly BGN 1 million without rules?
3. Shooting journalist
The filming journalist in this year’s edition of the competition is Miroslav Mihailov, followed by Teodora Barzakova, in second place.
1. Miroslav Mihailov – Nominated material – A series of materials covering the protests
2. Teodora Barzakova, Free Europe, – Nominated material – Exactly how many thousands are “thousands of people” on the streets?
4. “Journalist – Hope” These are the young journalists Tatiana Yordanova and Vladislava Trichkova, who competed with 10 journalists with 25 articles. Their runners-up are Victoria Simeonova and Elitsa Simeonova.
1. Vladislava Trichkova, New Television – Nominated material – THE TOUCHING STORIES OF THE ADOPTED: To find your origin against the law
1. Tatiana Yordanova, BNT – Nominated material – Graduates per kilogram
2. Victoria Simeonova, gospodari.com (“Masters of the Web”) – Nominated material – Burgas municipalities persuaded to vote FOR Dogan’s Sheds to become private land?
3. Elitsa Simeonova, Free Europe Nominated material – The flood in Pernik was only a matter of time. And everyone knew that
The man who most impressed the jury of the awards this marked by Covid year and became the winner of the Grand Prize “Valya Krushkina – Journalism for People” is Dobromir Ivanov from bTV Media Group, with the material Breathe! For the first time, a filming journalist takes the Grand Prix. He dedicated it to medics battling the pandemic.
We hope that next year we will have the opportunity to help organize the jubilee tenth edition of “Valya Krushkina – Journalism for the People” live and in person!