In Kyiv on May 30, 2024, the awards ceremony for the winners of the professional journalism contest Honor of Profession Award took place. This year, over 700 journalists submitted 1,240 entries in six main categories and five special categories.
The special prize in the category “Best Material on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality” from the NGO “Women in Media” was awarded to Lutfiye Zudiyeva and Anna Kravets. This became their second award for the material “An Acute Need for Justice,” created as part of the podcast “Defender. Imayeci” for the media outlet “Graty.” They also received the special prize for “Best Audio Material” for this work.
Lutfiye Zudiyeva is a Crimean Tatar journalist and a contributor to the portal “Graty.” She has continued to live in temporarily occupied Crimea and has not left the peninsula even after it came under Russian control in 2014. Lutfiye continues to cover the lives of Crimean Tatars in Crimea, documents the persecution by the Russian Center for Countering Extremism, reports from court sessions, and highlights the searches and arrests of local journalists and activists.
As a reminder, “Women in Media” has been initiating the special category “Best Material on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality” at the Honor of Profession Award for the third consecutive year. In the first year, the award in this category was won by Maria Semenchenko from Reporters for her material “My Husband Said I Beat Myself.” In 2023, the winner was Olesya Bida for her material for Hromadske titled “From the Gulag to the Colony in Olenivka: Women in Russian Prisons.”
