NRC journalists Wassens and Houtekamer win tile for production about child abuse

NRC-Journalists Rik Wassens and Carola Houtekamer, together with filmmakers Jaap van Heusen and Jefta Varwijk, won the tile in the background category on Monday. They won the prize for them Production about child abuse. The Dutch journalistic prizes were awarded in the Royal Schouwburg in The Hague.

For the production, Wassens and Houtekamer followed six young analysts and the team leader of the Kinderporno van Offlimits hotline, a private foundation founded in the nineties by the Dutch hosting industry to clean up the heavily polluted Dutch internet. Nowhere is so much child pornography reported as in the Netherlands.

The six young analysts and their team leader view and assess all the reported pictures and videos, more than half a million a year. The reports come from citizens or have been forwarded by one of the 53 affiliated reporting points in other countries.

NRC for production, worked together with filmmakers van Heusen and Varwijk, who for Omroep Human de Korte Documentary 10 reports in 10 minutes made.

Other winners

NOS correspondent Daisy Mohr and camera woman Edmée van Rijn won a tile in the primary care report for their reporting from the Middle East.

In the News category, Alexander Dommerholt, Maria Bouwman and Aaldert van Soest of the Nederlands Dagblad won for their articles about housing.

The best interview was held by Volkskrant journalist John Schoorl. He won the Tegel for his interview with former Rijksmuseum director Wim Pijbes.

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