The Cavling Prize is a prestigious

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journalist award. It is awarded annually in January to "a journalist or a group of journalists who have shown initiative and talent in the past year." It is generally considered the most prestigious prize for Journalism in Denmark. The Prize commemorates Henrik Cavling, founder of the Danish Journalists Confederation. The prize consists of 20,000 kroner and a statuette made by George Rode depicting Henry Cavling. The prize is awarded by a committee appointed by the Danish Journalists' Federation executive committee.

Recipients

* 1945 Henrik V. Ringsted * 1946 Ole Vinding * 1947

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* 1948 Nele Topsøe (Nele Poul Sørensen) * 1949 Poul Dalgaard / Anders B. Nørgaard * 1950 Mogens Bostrup * 1951 Niels Blædel * 1952 Aage Hastrup * 1953 Per Arboe Rasmussen * 1954

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* 1955 not given * 1956 Røde Kors Ungarn-indsamlingen (eng: Red Cross Hungary-fund raiser) * 1957 Ole Hansen * 1958 not given * 1959 Dan Larsen * 1960 Viggo Duvå * 1961 Willy Reunert * 1962 Jørgen Hartmann-Petersen * 1963 Poul Trier Pedersen * 1964 Knud Poulsen * 1965 Poul Dalgaard * 1966

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* 1967

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* 1968 Erik Nørgaard * 1969 Thyra Christensen * 1970 Leif Blædel * 1971 Torgny Møller * 1972 Leif Kjeldsen * 1973 The chief editors of ''

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'' * 1974 Anne Wolden-Ræthinge (Ninka) * 1975 Nele Rue * 1976 Harry Rasmussen * 1977 Jacob Andersen / Søren Jacobsen * 1978 Svend Bedsted / Jens Otto Kjær Hansen * 1979

Jørgen Flindt Pedersen Jørgen is a Danish, Norwegian, and Faroese masculine given name cognate to George (given name), George People with the given name Jørgen * Jørgen Aall (1771–1833), Norwegian ship-owner and politician * Jørgen Andersen (1886–1973), Norwegi ...

/ Erik Stephensen * 1980

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* 1981 Henning Thøgersen /

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* 1982

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* 1983 Hanne Reintoft * 1984 Sten Bådsgård /

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* 1985 Allan Graubæk / Gunner Nielsen / Henrik Thomsen * 1986 Alex Frank Larsen * 1987 The magazine ''

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'' * 1988 Jens J. Espersen * 1989 Anders Peter Mathiasen / Jeppe Juhl * 1990 Erik Eisenberg / Ulrik Haagerup / Martin Uhlenfeldt * 1991 Leif O. Dahl /

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* 1992 Nils Ufer (posthumous) * 1993

Mikkel Hertz Mikkel is a Danish and Norwegian masculine given name. It may refer to: *Mikkel Ødelien (1893–1984), Norwegian soil researcher *Mikkel Aaland (born 1952), award-winning American photographer *Mikkel Andersen (disambiguation) *Mikkel Bødker (bo ...

* 1994 John Mynderup * 1995 Christian Nordkap / Lars Rugaard / Erik Valeur * 1996

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/ Michael Klint * 1997

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* 1998

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* 1999

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/ Jens Chr. Hansen / Erik Eisenberg * 2000

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/ Kasper D. Borch * 2001 Poul Høi * 2002 Morten Pihl / Jakob Priess-Sørensen * 2003 Charlotte Aagaard / Jørgen Steen Nielsen / Bo Elkjær * 2004

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/ Thomas Stokholm / Jeppe Facius / Anders-Peter Mathiasen * 2005 / Michael Klint * 2006 Miriam Dalsgaard /

Olav Hergel Olaf or Olav (, , or differences between General American and Received Pronunciation, British ; Old Norse: ''Áleifr'', ''Ólafr'', ''Óleifr'', ''Anleifr'') is a Scandinavian and German given name. It is presumably of Proto-Norse origin, reconstr ...

* 2007

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* 2008 Morten Crone / Morten Frich /

Erik Refner Erik Refner (born 14 January 1971) is a Danish photographer and former pentathlete, soldier, and model. He is best known for winning the World Press Photo of the Year award in 2002 as a student. He also won the Cavling Prize in 2009. Early lif ...

/ Jesper Woldenhof * 2009 Jesper Tynell * 2010 Lars Nørgaard Pedersen / Asger Westh / Stine Larsen * 2011 Ulrik Dahlin /

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* 2012 Asbjørn With * 2013 Jeppe Gaardboe, Frederik Brun Madsen, Søren Kristensen, Michael Klint og Steen Jensen for

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* 2014 Morten Pihl for ''

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'' * 2015 Puk Damsgård for Danmarks Radio * 2016

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/ Lars Nørgaard Pedersen for ''

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'' * 2017

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and Janus Køster-Rasmussen for ''

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'' and DR * 2018 Eva Jung,

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and

for ''Berlingske'' * 2019 Tea Krogh Sørensen and Morten Pihl for ''Jyllands-Posten''

References

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