Rupert Cornwell Prize 2025: Trisha Mukherjee named as this 12 months’s winner | EUROtoday

The fifth Rupert Cornwell Prize for Journalism has been gained by Trisha Mukherjee, a contract journalist primarily based in New York.

The annual award is aimed toward youthful journalists in the beginning of their careers. Ms Mukherjee, beat an exceptionally gifted group of candidates together with her proposed collection of tales concerning the US-Mexican border.

The prize was established in reminiscence of Rupert Cornwell, the distinguished overseas correspondent and author who died in 2017. The objective is to assist fund an acceptable journalistic venture in any of the broad areas Cornwell spent a lot of his profession protecting – North America, Europe and the Soviet Union.

The £5,000 prize is supported by The Independent and is awarded by the Rupert Cornwell Trust.

“It’s a true honor to be awarded this year’s Rupert Cornwell prize. I am deeply inspired by Mr. Cornwell’s tenacious and incisive journalism. Reporting from anywhere, he knew how to make each sentence sing. I hope to carry forth his inimitable spirit in my own reporting at the US-Mexico border and beyond.” Ms Mukherjee stated.

On behalf of the judges and the belief, Cornwell’s widow Susan, a former US Congressional correspondent for Reuters, praised Ms Mukherjee’s “topical, detailed and well-researched” proposal.

“Trisha’s pitch showed her to be a talented and sensitive writer. The judges were also impressed with her focus on global human rights and her desire to create a more compassionate world through stories,” Cornwell stated.

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Ms Mukherjee has contributed to the New York Times and Business Insider.

The judges additionally recommended Antonia Langford’s modern proposal about local weather change, ecological disruption and historic legacies in Central Asia.

Rupert Cornwell was one of the vital elegant of writers in current instances, and embodied the pioneering spirit of The Independent when he joined as one in all its first recruits in 1986. He remained one in all its most eloquent voices, writing for the title till his loss of life in 2017.

From his experiences for the Financial Times in Rome to years at The Independent chronicling the decline of the USSR, and on to the Trump phenomenon within the United States, he was a supply of inspiration for his colleagues and now for a brand new technology of journalists.