February 23, 2023, 7:00 AM
February 23, 2023, 7:00 AM
The 40th version of the Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards, distinguished the Argentine journalist Martín Caparrós at the headquarters of the newspaper El País of Spain.
The jury was made up of Lucía Lijtmaer, Elvira Lindo, Isabel Calderón, Pepa Bueno, Luis Gómez, Pedro Zuazua, Miguel Delibes de Castro and Soledad Alcaide. He chose Martín Caparrós, because he represents “total journalism, one of the greatest exponents of the best Latin American chronicle”.
“Caparrós has traveled and talked about the American continent and Spain like few others, from the big cities to the smallest towns, with a vision that combines a defined literary style and a high intellectuality”, the jury maintained, about the journalist with almost 50 years of experience.
The Ortega y Gasset Awards also recognize – apart from the trajectory – the best works originally published in Spanish the previous year. This year, Julia Gavarrete from El Salvador, from El Faro, won in the “Best Journalistic Story” category. for an interview with a Salvadoran family fleeing El Salvador fearing that some members would be re-sentenced for crimes of which they had already been acquitted.
In the category “Best multimedia coverage”, the Spanish Xavier Aldeoke took the prize, for the work “Río Congo”produced for the newspaper La Vanguardia, with reports made along 4,700 kilometers, from the source of this river, which crosses four countries – Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo and Angola -, to its mouth in the ocean Atlántico, forming “a travel story that addresses issues such as the environment and inequality,” said the jury.
For his part, the prize for “Best Photography” went to Santi Palacios, for a photograph published in the 5W media, showing the bodies of part of 400 civilians killed in the Ukrainian town of Buchadue to the Russian invasion, “The snapshot captures the horror of everyday life in the middle of a war and conveys the desolation and harshness of the conflict. It also shows the loneliness that surrounds death,” the jury commented.
