A consortium of media houses which includes the Times of Malta has been shortlisted for the European Press Prize 2019.

Forbidden Stories is a non-profit project founded by Freedom Voices Network. Spearheaded by Laurent Richard, the team behind the network featured in The Guardian (UK), La Repubblica (Italy), Times of Malta, Le Monde (France), OCCRP (global), France 2, radio France, IRPI, Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Die Zeit (Germany), Reuters (international) and NDR (Germany).

Forbidden Voices’s mission is to continue and publish the work of other journalists facing threats, prison, or murder – which included that of the assassinated Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Read: Caruana Galizia's stories to be continued as international media houses study 750,000 files

In March 2018, Forbidden Stories had received the “Journalism Project of the Year Grand Prize” at the French Annual Journalism Summit.

Hundreds of journalists from all across Europe sent in their best work for the European Press Prize, with 23 stories from 17 different countries shortlisted.

The European Press Prize is awarded in four categories: Distinguished Reporting, Innovation, Opinion and Investigative Reporting. Forbidden Stories was nominated in the Innovation category.

The judges award a Special Award for excellent journalism to one striking entry which defies categories and disciplines. Each award is worth €10,000.

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