The Association of Investigative Journalists' Golden Shovels for the best investigative journalism in eight categories were awarded in Borlänge on Saturday evening during this year's Gräv conference.
One of the winners was TV4's "Cold Facts" and the documentary "Undercover in the Troll Factory", where reporter Daniel Andersson went undercover as an employee at the Sweden Democrats' communications department. The documentary revealed that the Sweden Democrats operate anonymous social media accounts spreading hate speech.
The revelation earned the Golden Shovel with the nomination: "For daring and creative methods that exposed a troll factory that cannot be denied."
Upsala Nya Tidning's reporters Elin Sandow and Niklas Skeri received the Golden Shovel in the category of smaller daily newspaper for their expose "Rapes in Home Care".
The jury's motivation reads: "For exposing how a municipality ignored alarms and warning signals, thereby putting the elderly at risk of becoming victims of sexual assaults."
Before this year's award, around 230 entries had been submitted for review by the nine-member jury. The number of entries has never been higher.
Nearly 100 of the submitted entries were published by editorial teams that primarily produce local journalism.
"Tough, as always. Very many of the investigations we were forced to reject would also be worthy of an award", says the jury's convenor Kicki Hultin in a statement on the association's website.
Book: "Why Did John Walter Die – an Investigation of the New Children's Homes" by Marja Grill, Forum Publishers.
National Radio Documentary: "Undercover in the Troll Factory" by Daniel Andersson and Emil Hellerud. "Cold Facts", TV4.
Local Radio Documentary: "Dalhalla and the Cover-up" by Gustav Elfving and Lisa Linder Lindberg, P4 Dalarna, Swedish Radio.
National Radio News: "Author Dreams" by Joachim Voss Sundell and Rebecca Lundberg, Culture News, SVT.
Magazine: "The Hunters" by My Vingren and Erik Glaad, Expo.
Smaller Daily Newspaper: "Rapes in Home Care – the Alarms that Disappeared" by Elin Sandow and Niklas Skeri, Upsala Nya Tidning.
Large City Newspaper: "The Security Scandal with the National Security Adviser" by Kristoffer Örstadius and Hugo Lindkvist, Dagens Nyheter.
Student Shovel: "Raped by Another Man" by Miranda Wretman and Elin Vallin, JMK, Stockholm University.
Source: The Association of Investigative Journalists
