Five out of seven CPOY spot news winners from DMJX

The judging of this year’s CPOY has started at Missouri University in Columbia and the winners of the first category has been selected.

And what an amazing start of the competition – Five out of the seven winners in the Spot News category are from DMJX:

Gold, Spot News – Ulrik Hasemann

Arriving to Europe.

More than 1 million refugees arrived to Europe in 2015. Not since the Second World War had so many people been forced to flee their homes and the refugee crisis became the biggest political challenge all over Europe. The vast majority of the refugees sailed from Turkey to the northern coast of Lesbos. The small Greek islands is just 10 kilometers away from the Turkish coast but the crossing can be very dangerous. Most refugees made the journey in small rubber dinghies but sometimes larger boats arrived such as this one on the 16th of November 2015, where about hundred people mainly from Syria and Iraq were crammed together.

Photo by Ulrik Hasemann

Gold, Spot News – Simon Læssøe

Reality TV stars in fight.

A fight erupts between reality tv-stars at the afterparty for the Reality Awards. Reality Awards is an event where reality tv is celebrating itself, and at the afterparty at the nightclub Billy Booze, some of the stars of the shows got into a scuffle.

Photo by Simon Læssøe.

Silver, Spot News – Rune Aarestrup Pedersen

When the refugees reached Denmark.

About 300 refugees had made their way through Europe and reached Denmark. In a huge crowd they continued their journey on the highway. A lot of them with the goal to reach Sweden. Police tried several time to stop the crowd and get the situation under control again.

Photo by Rune Aarestrup Pedersen.

And finally also Award of Excellences to Anders Rye Skjoldjensen and Ulrik Hasemann.