Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize for Dunja Hayali and Sarah Tacke

The ZDF journalists Dunja Hayali and Sarah Tacke were awarded the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize for critical television journalism in Hamburg.

You and the other excellent journalists and editorial teams have made a special contribution to freedom of expression and freedom of the press, as the association had already announced in advance. The presenter of the “heute journal” and the “Morgenmagazin” and the head of the ZDF Law and Justice editorial team share the prize.

This acknowledges that Hayali has found a courageous, successful and contemporary model to bring the results of her work to the public. The journalist has been standing tall for more than a decade in the never-ending series of “shitstorms” that have descended on her – full of hate and violent fantasies.

Tacke, a doctor of law and journalist, was honored for her contribution to truth and clarity in democratic discourse. Viewers felt competence and objectivity when Tacke explained the legal situation in the studio of the ZDF magazine programs and the “heute-journal”. Your work is political, but not politicizing journalism.

Other award winners include the NDR editorial team “Zapp”, which was honored for its differentiated, understandable approach to controversial media topics, and the NDR journalist Manuel Biallas, who received the award for understandable films and texts on an equal footing with his protagonists. He deals with topics such as migration, social inequality, extremism and human rights.

The Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize has been awarded since 1995

The prize has been awarded to critical and non-partisan journalists since 1995. It is named after the reporter and “Tagesthemen” presenter Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs, who died in March 1995. He famously said, “You can recognize a good journalist by the fact that he doesn’t mean anything, even a good thing.”

The previous winners of the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize, which was awarded by the Association for the Award of the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize for Television Journalism e. V. awarded include Petra Gerster, Anne Will, Maybrit Illner, Sandra Maischberger, Marietta Slomka, Oliver Welke, Claus Kleber, Ina Ruck and Elmar Theveßen.