| Year | Award Winner | Publication |
| 2024 | Sara Manisera, Daniela Sala:"Iraq Without Water: The Cost of Oil to Italy" | Irpi Media, Italy |
| 2023 | Alexander Nabert, Christina Brause, Bryan Bender, Nick Robyns-Early: "Death Weapons: Inside a Teenage Terrorist Network" | Welt am Sonntag, Germany |
| 2022 | Paavo Teittinen, Klaus Welp : "The investigation is closed" | Helsingin Sanomat, Finland |
| 2021 | Roman Anin, Alesya Marohovskaya, Irina Dolinina, Dmitry Velikovsky, Roman Shleynov, Sonya Savina, Olesya Shmagun and Denis Dmitriev: "Kirill and Katya: Love, offshores, and administrative resources. How marrying Putin's daughter gave Kirill Shamalov a world of opportunity" | IStories, Russia |
| 2020 | Annemarte Moland, Even Kjølleberg and Ruben Solvang: "Trigger Warning" | NRK, Norway |
| 2019 | Christo Grozev, Roman Dobrokhotov: "Unmasking the Salisbury Poisoning Suspects: A Four-Part Investigation" | Bellingcat, United Kingdom |
| 2018 | and : "Monsanto Papers" | Le Monde, France |
| 2017 | Series of articles on corruption and organized crime | Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia, Serbia |
| 2016 | : "Those Who have been Raped raise your hand" | Revue XXI, France |
| 2015 | : "How to produce dead guerillas" | El País, Spain |
| 2014 | Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh and Yeganeh Torbati: "The Assets of the Ayatollah" | Reuters, UK |
| Year | Award Winner | Publication |
| 2024 | Nataša Markovič:"We Have Betrayed a Generation" | Preiskovalno.si, Media 24, Slovenia |
| 2023 | Alla Konstantinova: "'She lost consciousness as it was happening and she’s actually grateful she did.'" What we know about the rapes perpetrated in Ukraine by Russian soldiers | Mediazona, Russia |
| 2022 | Peter Pomerantsev: "Memory in the age of impunity" | Coda Story, Georgia |
| 2021 | Iván Zsolt Nagy: "When Trianon Hurts Differently" | HVG.hu, Hungary |
| 2020 | , "How We Stopped Being Comrades" | SME, Slovakia |
| 2019 | : "The end of Atlanticism: had Trump killed the ideology that won the cold war?" | The Guardian, United Kingdom |
| 2018 | : "The third shooting of the boy Petar from Konjic" | Al Jazeera Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 2017 | Fintan O'Toole for his Brexit columns | The Observer and The Guardian, United Kingdom |
| 2017 | Gideon Rachman for his comments | Financial Times, United Kingdom |
| 2015 | Nick Cohen: "The Cowardice of Nigel Farage" | The Observer, United Kingdom |
| 2014 | Boris Dežulović: "Vukovar: a Life-Size Monument to the Dead City" | Globus, Croatia |
| 2013 | Nikos Chrysoloras: "Greece must remain in the Eurozone" | Kathimerini, Greece |
| Year | Award Winner | Publication |
| 2024 | Vitaly Soldatskikh, Ekaterina Reznikova, Roman Badanin, Katya Arenina, Boris Dubakh:"Lapdogs of War: A Guide to Russia's Wartime Oligarchs" | Proekt, Russia |
| 2023 | Juliette Garside, Simon Goodley, Jasper Jolly, Kalyeena Makortoff, Antonio Baquero, Lara Dihmis, Alex Dziadosz, Jared Ferrie, Brian Fitzpatrick, Kevin Hall, Ilya Lozovsky, Eli Moskowitz, Will Neal, Stelios Orphanides, Miranda Patrucic, Olesya Shmagun, Graham Stack, Tom Stocks, Drew Sullivan, Julia Wallace, Jonny Wrate, Jan Strozyk, Lara Dihmis, Misha Gagarin, Karina Shedrofsky, Alina Tsogoeva, Ivana Jeremić, Olena LaFoy, Bojana Pavlović, Dima Stoianov, Romina Colman, Ilia Donskikh, Nathan Jaccard, James O’Brien, Edin Pašović, Mark Nightingale: "Russian Asset Tracker" | OCCRP, The Guardian, Anti-Corruption Data Collective, Bird.bg, Delfi Estonia, Follow the Money, Forbes, Frontstory.pl, infoLibre, Inside Story, Investigative Center of Jan Kuciak, Investigace.cz, IrpiMedia, MANS, Miami Herald, Le Monde, NDR, Oštro, profil, Re:Baltica, Reporter.lu, Siena.lt, SVT, Tamedia, De Tijd, Transparency International UK |
| 2022 | Jose Miguel Calatayud, Adriana Homolova, Hendrik Lehmann, Brigitte Alfter, David Meidinger, Benedikt Brandhofer, Nikolas Zöller, Alexandra Siebenhofer, Steven Vanden Bussche, Gaby Khazalová, Bo Elkjær, Alexander Abdelilah, Sotiris Sideris, Lois Kapila, Alice Facchini, Peter Hendriks, Steinar Rostad Breivik, Micael Pereira, Peter Sabo, Manuel Gabarre, Christian Zeier, Catherine McShane, Nikolas Leontopoulos, Alexia Barakou, Moritz Wienert, Benedikt Hebeisen, Christoph Trautvetter, Elisabeth Lind, Jakub Nakládal, Mathieu Périsse, Anna Thewalt, Helena Wittlich, Sinan Recber, Sidney Gennies, Manuel Kostrzynski, Lorenzo Bagnoli, Hans Jordheim, Sara Pinho: "Cities for Rent" | Arena for Journalism in Europe, ORF, Apache, Deník Referendum, Mediapart, Der Tagesspiegel, AthensLive, Reporters United, Dublin Inquirer, IrpiMedia, E24, Expresso, elDiario.es, Reflekt, Republik, Ctxt.es, Follow The Money |
| 2021 | Maldita.es' WhatsApp Chatbot to thrive a fact-checking operation on disinformation | Maldita.es, Spain |
| 2020 | How Decât o Revistă organized an all-team pop-up newsroom in Transylvania | Decât o Revistă, Romania |
| 2019 | Guillermo Abril and, "Palmyra, the other side" | Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Germany; El País, Spain |
| 2018 | Megan Lucero, Maeve McClenaghan, Gareth Davies, Charles Boutaud, Kirsty Styles for their project Bureau Local | Bureau of Investigative Journalism, United Kingdom |
| 2017 | : "The Turkish Coup through the Eyes of its Plotters" | Bellingcat, The Netherlands |
| 2016 | Raquel Moleiro, Hugo Franco and Joana Beleza: "Killing and Dying for Allah - Five Portuguese Members of Islamic State" | Expresso, Portugal |
| 2015 | Nicolas Kayser-Bril, Jacopo Ottaviani, Sylke Gruhnwald, Jean-Marc Manach, Jens Finnäs, Daniele Grasso, Katerina Stauroula, Alessio Cimarelli, Andrea Nelson Mauro, Alice Kohli: "The Migrant Files: Surveying migrants' deaths at Europe's door" | The Migrants' Files, Italy, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Spain and Greece |
| 2014 | Paul Lewis : "Reading the Riots" | The Guardian, United Kingdom |
| Year | Award Winner | Publication |
| 2024 | Tina Xu, Gabriele Cruciata, Eoghan Gilmartin, Danai Maragoudaki, Barbara Matejčić, Leah Pattem, Gabriela Ramirez, Daphne Tolis, Kristiana Ludwig, Ben Heubl, Rachel Oldroyd, Felicity Lawrence, Ashifa Kassam, Lorenzo Tondo, Manisha Ganguly, Pamela Duncan:"1000 Lives, 0 Names: The Border Graves Investigation — How the EU is Failing Migrants' Last Rights" | The Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Unbias the News, Solomon, Balkan Insight, El Diario, l'Espresso, Telegram, Lithuanian Radio Television, Efsyn.gr,, Lesvosnews, Kathimerini, News247, Avgi, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera, Jutarnji List, Tportal, Index, Novi List, Germany, UK, Spain, Greece, Italy, Croatia, Lithuania, Poland |
| 2023 | Anna Myroniuk, Alexander Khrebet: "Suicide missions, abuse, physical threats: International Legion fighters speak out against leadership’s misconduct" | The Kyiv Independent, Ukraine |
| 2022 | Lara Bonilla, Ricard Marfà, Idoia Longan: "Woman's body, man's medicine" | Diari ARA, Spain |
| 2021 | Paying tribute to all brave journalists working in Belarus | |
| 2020 | BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina team, for their reporting on war crimes trials and other transitional justice issues | BIRN, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 2019 | Forbidden Stories team and partners, for their organisation Forbidden Stories | |
| 2018 | Ida Nyegård Espersen: "This crime only requires poverty, internet, and a distant buyer" | Jyllands-Posten, Denmark |
| 2017 | Irina Tacu, Ana Maria Ciobanu, Andreea Giuclea, Christian Lupșa and Oana Sandu: "Colectiv" | Decât o Revistă, Romania |
| 2016 | Gert van Langendonck: "Off to Europe" | NRC, The Netherlands |
| 2016 | Amrai Coen and Henning Sussebach: "In the Promised Land" | Die Zeit, Germany |
| 2016 | Anders Fjellberg and Tomm W. Chriistiansen: "The Wetsuitman" | Dagbladet, Norway |
| 2015 | Paul Radu, Drew Sullivan, Miranda Patrucić, et al. for their organisation The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project | Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 2014 | Alan Rusbridger | The Guardian, United Kingdom |
| 2014 | Yavuz Baydar | censored media, Turkey |