“La Voz de Galicia”
largest newspaper in the region off the coast of which the “Prestige” tanker sank in November 2002. “La Voz” uncovered the events surrounding the spill with great journalistic commitment.
Organisation “Journalists help Journalists”
provides assistance to colleagues experiencing difficulties, obstructed in their work or maltreated, and also to dependents of killed journalists.
The 30,000 Euro Leipzig “Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media” for 2004 is jointly awarded to American war photographer James Nachtwey, the organisation “Journalists help Journalists” and the Spanish daily “La Voz de Galicia”.
