• Dr. Alison Abbott (Senior Award),
  Science editor of the British science journal Nature; editor of the Science in Culture column in Nature's Books and Arts section
• Dr. Bettina Gartner (Junior Award),
  Freelance science journalist fort he German weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT
• Angela Saini (Junior Award),
  Freelance science journalist of the British science journals New Scientist, Science and for BBC World Service

V.l.n.r. Angela Saini, Alison Abbott, Wilhelm Krull, Bettina Gartner, Katja Ebeling (2009)

• José María Valderas (Senior Award),
  editor-in-chief of the science journal "Investigación y Ciencia", the Spanish edition of the "Scientific American"
• Rabea Rentschler (Junior Award),
  freelance journalist for the German science journal "Gehirn&Geist"
• Alok Jha (Junior Award),
  scientific correspondent of the British daily newspaper "The Guardian"

• Dr. Christina Berndt
  Science editor of the German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Miklos Hargitai
  Science editor of the Hungarian daily newspaper Nepszabadsag
• Bas Kast
  Author and science editor of the German daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel

• Dr. Arne Ruth
  Journalist, former editor in chief of the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter
• Andreas Feiertag (Junior Award)
  Head of the science department of the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard
• Ulrika Björksten (Junior Award)
  Swedish science editor, author

• Gero von Randow
  Former editor in chief of the science department of the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung; today editor of the German weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT

• Dr. Philipp Campbell
  Editor of the British science journal Nature