Ruth Hopkins, Netherlands/the UK, freelance journalist and member of onderzoekscollectief Spit in the Netherlands. She is the founding editor of the Private Security Network, a transnational network of investigative journalists. Ruth Hopkins has worked as a journalist and editor with the Wits Justice Project in Johannesburg from 2012 to 2018. In 2016 she was awarded the Sylvester Stein fellowship. She is the author of Misery Merchants (2023), on a private prison and I’ll never let you go again (2005) on trafficking of women into Europe.
Nicoline Noe is a Danish freelance investigative data journalist with Investigative Reporting Denmark. She also works as a journalist for Kaas & Mulvad. Her reporting focuses on environmental issues, climate change, human rights violations, and financial investigations, and she is deeply committed to advancing access to information. Previously, she covered environmental, climate, and political affairs for Jyllands-Posten. Nicoline Noe serves on the jury for the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism and is a board member of ARIJ.
Glynnis Marriday, South Africa, freelance, fixer on Another Dead Prisoner.