Free Media Awards For Journalists In Troubled Hungary, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Azerbaijan

By Stefan J. Bos, Worthy News Europe Bureau ChiefHAMBURG/OSLO/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – Six independent journalists and media outlets from Eastern and Central Europe have been named laureates of the 2025 Free Media Awards, honoring their investigative reporting under pressure from what they view as authoritarian regimes.The prizes, announced by Norway’s Fritt Ord Foundation and Germany’s ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, recognize “valiant investigative journalism under exceedingly di