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Deutsche Welle journalists Jaafar Abdul Karim and Katja Gloger were awarded the Werner Holzer Prize for international journalism at a ceremony in Frankfurt's Römer town hall. Deutsche Welle reported that Gloger, a veteran Russia correspondent, received first prize and Abdul Karim second prize. The prize honours Werner Holzer, a former Frankfurter Rundschau editor-in-chief, and the ceremony coincided with what would have been his 100th birthday. A research grant went to freelance journalist Luise Land, whose project examines the legacy of the genocide against the Herero and Nama peoples through her family's landholdings in Namibia. The jury praised Gloger as one of the leading foreign policy reporters and an expert on Russia. Gloger, who co-wrote the book The Failure with Georg Mascolo on German Russia policy, urged more trustworthy, fact-based journalism and dedicated the award to exiled journalists and colleagues at Novaya Gazeta, which had been forced to shut its Russian operations earlier that week. Abdul Karim, whose talk show JaafarTalk reaches millions across the Arab world and Germany, spoke of hatred, threats and personal strain in his work and called for dialogue across divides.