Chief editor and director of Mediehuset Sermitsiaq, Masaana Egede, is awarded the Ebbe Munck honorary award.
Ebbe Munck’s honorary award for 2026 goes to Masaana Egede for his journalistic work and work in keeping the Greenlandic population properly informed in two languages through his work as chief executive and editor-in-chief at Sermitsiaq, Greenland’s only independent media house.
It writes Ebbe Munck Memorial Fund in a press release. The award is presented by Queen Margrethe herself, who is patron of the foundation.
In its justification for the award, the foundation emphasizes that, according to the foundation, Sermitsiaq handled the task of delivering free and critical journalism in the midst of a geopolitical storm, when Greenland became the center of Donald Trump’s ambitions to take over the country:
– When US President Donald Trump already in his inauguration speech formulated the idea of the Donroe Doctrine, which sees Greenland as part of the American hemisphere and expressed that he wanted Greenland in one way or another, Masaana Egede, both as a Greenlander and as chief executive and editor-in-chief at Sermitsiaq, was faced with a huge task.
– He and Sermitsiaq had to inform and report to both the Greenlandic population and the outside world about the American interest and the political reactions to this in the middle of a Greenlandic election campaign, where the question of the next steps towards greater Greenlandic independence was also high on the agenda, writes Ebbe Munck’s Memorial Fund.
According to the foundation, the quality of Sermitsiaq’s news coverage shows how independent and critical journalism is the backbone of a strong democratic defense and defense of freedom.
– It ensures that the citizens and in this context the Greenlanders make informed choices, hold those in power to account and prevent the spread of lies and misinformation. It is to Masaana Egede’s honor as chief executive of Sermitsiaq to have helped to undertake and continues to undertake this task, says the Ebbe Munck Memorial Foundation.
The award will be presented to Masaana Egede at a ceremony at Fredensborg Castle on 3 November.
The award has previously been awarded to prominent Greenlanders such as the then children’s spokesperson Aviâja Egede Lynge, who received the award in 2023 and the politician Kuupik Kleist, who received the award in 2017.
