A Bulgarian journalist took a Pulitzer with material on the poisoning of Emilian Gebrev



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Bulgarian journalist Boryana Dzhambazova is part of the team that carried out the investigation into the actions of Russian secret services around the world, which brought the Pulitzer Prize for International Journalism to the New York Times.

The winners were announced on Monday night.

The prosecution revealed who are the Russians accused of the attempted murder of Emilian Gebrev.

The New York Times won the most awards this year. The publication received a total of three Pulitzer Prizes. In the investigative journalism category, Brian Rosenthal’s series on the conditions in which taxi drivers work in New York, many of whom were forced to borrow in slavery, was awarded. In the Best Commentary category, the award went to Nicole Hannah-Jones for her essay “1619,” on slavery and the contribution of blacks to American history.

In the category “international journalism” The winner is the team that developed the series “Putin’s Hidden War”, dedicated to the actions of the Russian secret services in various countries of the world: Ukraine, Madagascar, Bulgaria, Libya, the Central African Republic.

Boryana Dzhambazova is also part of this team with her contribution. for journalistic investigation in Bulgarian territory. In December last year, the New York Times wrote about the connection between the Russian secret services and the attempted poisoning of Bulgarian businessman Emilian Gebrev. The author of the article is the journalist Michael Schwartz, who works together with Dzhambazova to cover the subject in Sofia.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of AEJ – Bulgaria and an independent journalist. He started working as a reporter in 2005, writing for Bulgarian and foreign media. Since then, he has covered a wide range of topics, from current political and economic developments to social and human rights issues. His materials have been published in the New York Times, Economist, and Politico Europe. She has a BA in journalism from Sofia University and an MA in New Media from New York University as a Fulbright Fellow.



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