Lithuania

At the annual award ceremony organised by the Lithuanian Ministry of Finance and the Lithuanian Journalists’ Union, a special award was presented to Delfi for its coverage of a wide range of topics and issues.

Dainius Sinkevičius, a special correspondent for Delfi, was honored with the Sharpest Shot Award at the Vilnius Journalists’ Forum for his impactful coverage of topics concerning crimes against children that resonated throughout Lithuania.

Tomas Janonis, a special correspondent for Delfi, was awarded the Insight Award at the Vilnius Journalists’ Forum for his outstanding coverage of topics exposing how public access to state-owned territories is increasingly restricted and others.

At the “Tourism Success Awards” organised by “Keliauk Lietuvoje” Orijus Gasanovas‘ show “Orijus’ Holidays in Lithuania” was named the most successful media project promoting travel to or within Lithuania.
Tomas Janonis was named the winner of the 2024 Journalists’ Creative Competition “Man and the Environment.”

Delfi’s investigative journalism was recognised this year with two prestigious awards at the “Paparazzi” forum organised by communication agency Publicum. Special correspondent Dainius Sinkevičius received the “For Courage” award, while his colleague Tomas Janonis was honored with the “For Investigations” award.

The international free press organisation “Free Press Unlimited,” which supports media and journalists worldwide, announced the twenty winners of the 2024 Collaborative Journalism Fellowship. Among them was Vytautė Merkytė, editor of Delfi Plius.

2023

Special correspondent of Delfi Lithuania, Tomas Janonis, and science and technology editor, Šarūnas Meškys, received an award in the 21^st creative competition Man and Environment (Žmogus ir aplinka) of the Lithuanian Ministry of the Environment and the Lithuanian Union of Journalists.
Delfi’s sports journalist Mindaugas Augustis received the prize of the Lithuanian association of sports journalists for the most noteworthy articles in 2023.
The children’s rights protection and adoption agency of the Lithuanian Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour awarded a prize to Delfi journalist Dainius Sinkevičius whose work has helped to improve the welfare of Lithuanian children and has protected their rights and needs.
In the ceremony of Annual Press Awards, lt received the Authenticity Award from Paparazzi Agency.
Delfi was recognised by Lithuania’s leading communication agency Publicum for entrepreneurship development and received the leader of the sector award, ELTA was recognised for the revival of the sector.

2022

For his outstanding services, Oleg Jerofejev, editor of ru.delfi.lt, was awarded the Lithuanian state order of merit and the silver badge of honour of the Lithuanian government’s department of ethnic minorities.
Tomas Janonis, special correspondent of Delfi, was recognised for investigative journalism in the competition “The Man and the Environment“.
Edgaras Savickas, business journalist of Delfi, was named journalist of the year in connection with the research that exposed the lack of effectiveness of EU investments.
Kristina Pocytė, journalist of Delfi and Delfi TV, won the press award in the “Paparazzi” award contest organised by the PR agency “Publicum”.

2021

At the festive ceremony held to celebrate its 21^st anniversary, Delfi Lithuania awarded the Titans prize to people who have broken stereotypes with their personal example and attract attention to key public phenomena and events. The recipients included a journalist and political commentator Kęstutis Girnis for his extensive contribution in covering the challenges facing the Lithuania society, and Aukse Mickienė, head of the Department of Infectious Diseases in the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences for her self-sacrificing work.
For the fourth consecutive year, the Lithuanian Ministry of Finance organised a competition to select the best press coverage on the European Union investments in Lithuania with the aim of analysing and increasing the efficiency of the use of the EU structural funds. In 2021, Delfi journalist Edgar Savickas won the award.
Delfi columnist Rimvydas Valatka received the Romas Sakadolskis Award of Journalism for extraordinary opinion journalism. On Sundays, Valatka publishes in Delfi his opinion about the most important political and social issues.

2020

At the festive ceremony held to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Delfi at the National Museum of Art in Vilnius on 6 February, Delfi awarded prizes to the people for breaking stereotypes with their personal example and highlighting key public phenomena and events.
The Lie Detector of the Lithuanian news portal lt is among nine nominees that are the candidates of the best fact-checking success stories of Europe. The winner will be announced at the global virtual summit.

2019

Delfi Lithuania’s journalist Arūnas Milašius won the second prize at the competition of environmental journalists “People and the Environment” for a series of articles dealing with the ecological disaster due the fire in the factory of recycled tires. The prizes were handed out by the Minister of the Environment Kęstutis Mažeika and Chairman of the Association of the Lithuanian Journalists (LŽA) Dainius Radzevičius.

Delfi Lithuania’s journalists Edgaras Savickas, Arūnas Milašius and Lina Mustafinaitė received three awards for their work covering EU investment projects.

Delfi Lithuania’s business journalist Edgaras Savickas and environmental journalist Tomas Janonis won awards for their entries in the competition on corruption “Transparency – it’s in our hands 2018”.