The Daphne Caruana Galizia prize for journalism is set to be launched today at 2pm.

Journalists are invited to present their submissions in a competition for outstanding journalism through the European Parliament, with the prize money set at €20,000.

The prize pays tribute to the Maltese investigative journalist and blogger who was brutally murdered in October 2017. 

Since her murder – which shook the whole nation – a number individuals have been investigated and a few of them have been arrested, while a public inquiry to see whether the state did everything it could to prevent the death is soon set to finish.

This prize was launched to seek to reward those who also defend the core principles and values of the European Union, among them human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, rule of law and human rights.

Today’s launch will see Matthew Caruana Galizia, one of the sons of Daphne Caruana, David Casa, a member of the European Parliament and quaestor, and Heidi Hautala, vice-president and lawmaker of the European Parliament, attending.

The first awards would be announced in the coming October, and the prize is open to journalists from any nationality who are able to showcase and present the in-depth reports published or broadcast by media outlets in one of the 27 member states of the EU.

The prize will be chosen by an independent jury composed of representatives both of the press and of civil society of the 27 countries in the EU, apart from representatives of the main European journalism association.