Radio Netherlands Worldwide journalist Robert Chesal and his colleague Joep Dohmen from newspaper NRC Handelsblad have jointly won 'De Loep' (The Magnifying Glass), a prestigious annual prize for investigative journalism in the Netherlands and Flanders.
The two journalists were awarded the prize for their series of reports on child sex abuse at Catholic boarding schools in the Netherlands.
The close collaboration between Mr Chesal and Mr Dohmen was instrumental in bringing to light a large number of facts about child sex abuse in the Dutch Roman Catholic Church. The two investigative journalists were able to track down victims and other persons involved who often told highly personal and moving stories about child sex abuse at Dutch Catholic boarding schools.
Included in Mr Chesal’s research are the activities of Dutch priests in ‘missionary countries’ and former Dutch colonies. RNW’s Editor-in-Chief Rik Rensen said the jury "made the right decision".
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I am thrilled you got this. Wonderful news and very well done on bringing this issue to the fore. Not enough said and done about it. Congratulations
Thank you very kindly, also on behalf of my colleague Joep Dohmen at NRC and all my fellow journalists here at RNW who have worked with me and let me bend their ear about this sad subject. It's not over yet, so stay tuned.
Congratulations for this deserved award!
Great work on a very important subject. Well done. You deserve it. About the film above, nicely filmed, use of music however: cheeeeeeesy!
Great work, and great nesw! Congratulations!
It is when you mix talent and hard work that you are able to produce work that is meaningful. This award is highly prestigous and the recipients were not only able to bring to light a horrific injustice, but they potentially saved many more victims from enduring continued psychological and physical suffering. Kudos!! My hat is off to you.
CONGRATULATIONS!!
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