Nominations for the Grand Prize for Journalism announced – Power of the United States series nominates Iida Tika and Jaakko Keso

Foreign correspondent Iida Tikka looks directly at the camera in the United States. — Iida Tikka worked as Yle’s US correspondent from 2020 to 2024. Her podcast Crumbling Earth was Yle’s most listened-to audio content last year.

Among the nominees are the editors of Yle’s “Crumbling Earth” podcast and the documentary “This is America”.

The nominations for the Grand Prize for Journalism have been announced today, Wednesday.

The awards are presented in four categories: innovator of the year, regional story of the year, story of the year and journalist of the year.

Over four and a half years, he reported from the United States in a variety of media and developed new narrative techniques.

Towards the end of his correspondence, Tikka carried out *Iida Tikka, which opens the US presidential election,

The podcast gained great popularity and was YLE’s most listened to the audio content in 2024.

Tikka sees the * crumbling earth * podcast as a certain type of correspondence.

– * The crumbling country * was probably seen as a final thesis for correspondence.

Iida Tikka sees the candidacy as a good recognition not only for her own work but also for the work of US correspondents in general.

– It’s always great when colleagues recognize their own doing. Really, all of us correspondents in the United States have been done tremendously. When I myself have been a correspondent and now afterwards.

This is America’s Jaakko Keso nominated for Innovator of the Year

In the spring of 2024, Keso traveled to the US to see what American reality looks like around the country. This gave birth to a documentary series *Jaakko Keso: This is America *.

The documentary series shows Keson’s interaction with the audience and a kind of narrative that appeals to young audiences.

Journalist Jaakko Keso in the crowd in the background of an airplane where Trump is touring the election events. — Jaakko Keso’s documentary looks at what the United States looks like in different parts of the country.

The candidacy is familiar to Keso. He has been nominated for the Journalist of the Year in 2023.

Other candidates for the Reformer of the Year award are the multilingual media Satakiel of Haaga -Helia University of Applied Sciences and artificial intelligence news from Bauer Media’s Radio Radio.

The winners of the Great Journalist Award will be awarded Wednesday, March 12. The Great Journalist Award is an annual award by the Editor -in -Chief Association. It has been distributed in Finland since 2001.