The Cavling Prize goes to writers of essays about Danish women and children in detention camps in Syria

The Cavling Prize committee has decided to award the prize to four journalists from the newspaper Ekstra Bladet for their coverage of the government's actions regarding Danish children in detention camps in Syria. This will be announced today, Friday, in a live broadcast of the prestigious Danish journalism award ceremony. The winners are the authors of the series of articles entitled "Unwanted Dead Children," namely journalists Najib Khaja, Jeppe Wendalen, Thomas Vogt, and Magnus Mjø.

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The Cavling Committee stated in its presentation of the project that “through diligent work and confidential intelligence, they revealed that those in power had withheld important information about Danish children in Kurdish detention camps.” The newspaper Ekstra Bladet described in several articles that the Defense Intelligence Service had warned the government that children in the camps were at risk of being kidnapped by the Islamic State (ISIS). In addition, there was a risk that the extremist Islamic organization would train the children to carry out attacks in their countries of origin, according to the source. The government was later criticized for not informing Parliament of the intelligence agencies’ assessments.

Regarding the reasons for this year's award, the committee noted that the journalists had unique access to information and, moreover, appeared to have succeeded in conveying a highly political issue with composure. Three other media outlets were also nominated for this year's Cavling Award, including the documentary series "Flesh-Eating Bacteria," which aired on DR. Jacob Friberg of BT was nominated for his coverage of the mink issue, and three journalists from Fagbladet 3F were nominated for their reporting on the conditions of foreign workers in Danish agriculture.

Source: TV2 website