Journalismuspreis "von unten"

Not “professional experts” but “experts by experience” – who themselves have to live in or with poverty – make up the jury of the journalism prize “From Below”. They do not play the role of “passive victims”, medially stigmatised or pitied, depending on which cliché the context requires. They rather judge, as sovereigns, the quality of submitted media reports about their experiences with poverty and the various paths that took them there; and about what poverty has to do with all of us. An innovative change of perspective. Because poverty exists – even if we do not like to look at it. And the way we look at the poor is changeable, for example by good journalism. Maybe this kind of award will soon be exported…