Sofia, December 18, 2020
As always, in December it is time for the winners of the "Valya Krushkina - Journalism for the people" competition to be awarded. BFPA has supported the initiative since its inception. This has been happening for nine consecutive years, but for the first time not live - the Covid pandemic affected this significant event for the media and public environment. There are 4 categories - electronic media, writing journalist, filming journalist and journalist-hope. In addition, there is The Big Prize. The jury consists of seven members, all well-known names from various leading media in Bulgaria. The winners were chosen from 106 submitted materials. We all hope that next year the tenth anniversary edition of the competition will be live, and that we will put an end to the pandemic. For the first time we will mention who supported the event for the modest prize fund with the clear awareness that in these conditions there are not doing it for strong publicity, but only to support the cause - Bulgarian Society for Public Relations (BDVO), L'Occitane en Provence and Salon Olfactive.
Indeed, this year the competition faced a number of challenges due to the epidemic situation in the country, which was the reason for the official award ceremony to be canceled. However, this did not prevent nominations and winners from being announced, albeit in a slightly more unconventional format. All nominated materials were sent to the seven-member jury. These are journalists with proven experience and reputation in the field, namely:
1. Maria Cherneva, BNT
2. Rosen Tsvetkov, bTV
3. Silvia Velikova, BNR
4. Nikolina Dimitrova, Bulgaria ON AIR
5. Vladimir Yonchev, OFF News
6. Stoyana Georgieva, Mediapool
7. Petyo Tsekov, Sega newspaper
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!
