Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs Award for Dunja Hayali and Sarah Tacke, Digi Mart USA News (Hamburg, Germany): ZDF journalists Dunja Hayali and Sarah Tacke were honored on Thursday evening in Hamburg with the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs Award for critical television journalism. According to the announcement, they earned the recognition through their contributions to freedom of opinion and freedom of the press.
Hayali and Tacke will share the prize. A special award went to the editorial team of the NDR media magazine “Zapp” for its differentiated and easily understandable analysis of controversial media topics.
The development award went to Manuel Biallas of NDR for films and texts that are clear and approach their subjects on equal terms. He focuses on topics such as social inequality and human rights.
The award has been presented since 1995 to critical and politically independent journalists. It is named after Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs, a reporter and anchor of the German public broadcaster ARD’s “Tagesthemen” program, who died in March 1995.
