In the category "Best journalist story related to the access to information right", the “Golden Key” award went to 
Mila Cherneva from the "Capital" newspaper for her active use of the APIA in her journalistic investigations and for the number of lawsuits led against institutional refusals.

Cherneva won three lawsuits on public-wide discussed topics. The court ruled in favor of Cherneva in her lawsuit against the Road Infrastructure Agency (RIA), after the RIA refused to disclose data on the sale of online vignettes. The State Consolidation Company also lost a lawsuit regarding access to information in connection to an expenditure of half a billion levs on the maintenance and repair of dams. In a third ATI case, Sofia Municipality was obliged by the court to provide information on street repairs in six Sofia neighborhoods.

Spas Spassov from “Dnevnik” online newspaper was elected by the jury to be the rexcipient of the honorary diploma for his in-depth investigation into the case of the pollution of Varna Lake caused by a leaking wastewater pipeline.

Spassov's materials provoked the civil reaction of the citizens of Varna. They demanded the Mayor’s resignation because he was hiding information about the broken pipeline for 9 months. Later, an inspection by the District Prosecutor's Office took place and a referral was sent to the European Commission.