EL PAÍS delivers this Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. the Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards at the Palau de les Comunicacions, in Valencia.
At the beginning of the ceremony, the director of EL PAÍS, Pepa Bueno, took the floor, claiming that "good journalism, which confronts us with the complexity and contradictions of life, of speeches and of politics, It is the best antidote against polarization.”
The protagonists of the 39th edition are the winners: Wilfredo Miranda and Carlos Herrera, representatives of the
Divergents team
, Nicaraguan media outlet winner in the category of best multimedia coverage;
Sáshenka Gutiérrez, award for best photography;
and the EL PAÍS team that investigated pedophilia in the Spanish Church, winners in the category of best story or journalistic investigation.
The relatives of David Beriain and Roberto Fraile, this year's professional career awards, who were murdered in 2021 while doing a report in Burkina Faso, have also attended. "His death has been an irreparable loss for us and for journalism more restless”, lamented Beriain's widow, Rosaura Romero, after collecting the award.
Íñigo Domínguez, from the EL PAÍS team awarded for the investigation of Spanish pederasty, has thus thanked the recognition:
You can follow the ceremony live here.
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Chamorro: "In Nicaragua, the profession of journalist has been criminalized"
The director of EL PAÍS, Pepa Bueno, and the Nicaraguan journalist who won the 2021 Ortega y Gasset for best professional career, Carlos Fernando Chamorro, talk about their experiences and how they see journalism.
"When we say that we defend courageous journalism, we usually refer to stories that someone does not want us to tell. There are many places in the world where publishing information means risking your freedom or your life. And the journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro is in that part of the world", Bueno begins.
Chamorro assures that receiving the 2021 Ortega y Gasset Prize was an "encouragement for the press in Nicaragua, which has been resisting a fierce dictatorship for more than two years."
"There are journalists in jail. Doing journalism on a day-to-day basis involves risks for editors and sources. The profession of journalist has been criminalized. There are no independent sources to which information can be attributed. There are people who are in jail for having given information to journalists. In Nicaragua there are more than 180 political prisoners," continues Chamorro.
"This award has consequences for newsrooms that identify with our commitment, which is to tell the truth."
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war correspondents
During the Ortega y Gasset ceremony, a video was broadcast in which war correspondents talk about the last great conflict in Europe: the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
These are their testimonials.
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The relatives of David Beriain and Roberto Fraile: "With each murdered journalist we relive the death of all the others"
David Beriain's widow, Rosaura Romero, receiving the Ortega y Gasset Award for professional career awarded to the journalist: "His death has been an irreparable loss for us and for the most restless journalism that tries to understand closely how complex it can be reality. David had as a precept of life not to judge. We hope that his passion and his know-how will inspire new generations. That there be relays of all the great journalists who have given their lives for this profession. In five months, they have been assassinated 26 journalists. Double that in all of 2021. With each one that dies, we relive the death of all the others."
Roberto Fraile's mother, Lidia Marcos, when collecting the prize for her son's professional career: "The day they told us that Roberto had been awarded the prize was his birthday. We feel sad because we wish they hadn't had to give it to him so soon. Thank you for this award that highlights your work and that of the journalists who have lost their lives for doing their job well. We hope that their deaths will serve to evaluate journalism with capital letters."
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Pepa Bueno's speech at the Ortega y Gasset
The director of EL PAÍS, Pepa Bueno, has spoken at the Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards ceremony.
"Real journalism is defined by truth and independence," she said during her speech, which she can see in its entirety in this video.
"Different journalists are going to parade through this scenario, united by the decision to tell the truth, whoever falls."
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Ortega y Gasset Award 2022 for professional career for war reporters David Beriain and Roberto Fraile, who died in Burkina Faso
The 2022 Ortega y Gasset Award for professional career goes to
David Beriain and Roberto Fraile
, who died in Burkina Faso on April 26, 2021. The jury has highlighted the commitment of both to the profession, exercising a type of journalism that is far from the obvious: coverage of forgotten conflicts.
Likewise, he has framed this award -the first Ortega y Gasset to be given posthumously- as a tribute to all journalists who die exercising their profession.
“We reward not only those who risk their lives to give news, but also those who lose it.
This tribute takes on greater meaning today with the war in Ukraine and also extends to all the places on the planet where doing journalism means losing one's life."
They go up to collect the award on their behalf Rosaura Romero and Daniel Fraile
The Ortega y Gasset Prize for professional career recognizes the best journalistic career in attention to the professional merits achieved by the participants.
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The winners of the award for best multimedia coverage: "This award has been a boost for journalism in Nicaragua"
One of the journalists responsible for
The challenge after the massacre,
Carlos Herrera, thanks the award: "We received the award on behalf of each of the members of our newsroom,
Divergentes,
who are working in Nicaragua in a very hostile environment. Simply attending Collecting the award means putting journalists who leave the country in danger. We want to dedicate the award to the victims and their families".
One of his colleagues, Wilfredo Miranda, adds: "This award has been a boost for journalism in Nicaragua, where there are confiscated newsrooms and journalists in exile. Above all, we dedicate it to journalists who are currently in prison and suffering torture. .
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'The challenge after the massacre', Ortega y Gasset 2022 award for best multimedia coverage
The Ortega y Gasset Award for best multimedia coverage is for
The challenge after the massacre: memory, truth, justice and non-repetition
, published by the Nicaraguan media outlet
Divergente,
that analyzes the situation of repression that exists in Nicaragua under the regime of Daniel Ortega.
The jury has highlighted that it is a work that “brings together everything required of good journalism: information, different points of view, numerous voices and exhaustive analysis.
It also presses several keys that would be applicable to other places in the world.
It integrates numerous formats, well executed and combined, designed for a plural audience, which allow us to understand the reality that the Central American country is experiencing.”
The jury has also highlighted "the circumstances in which this work has been carried out, under the pressure of a totalitarian regime."
The work is signed by the journalists
Wilfredo Miranda and Carlos Herrera
, who go up to collect the award.
The category of best multimedia coverage rewards, according to criteria of quality and journalistic rigor, the best work published during the year 2021, originally in Spanish and in multimedia format, in any media.
This category includes all those works published on a digital medium that combine different narratives and/or elements, such as text, image, video, infographics, etc.
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The image of the report 'Fuck you, cancer', Ortega y Gasset Award 2022 for best photography
The Ortega y Gasset Award for best photography is for the image that illustrates the report
Fuck you, cancer,
by
Sáshenka Gutiérrez
, from the Efe agency.
The journalist has been awarded for a photograph taken of Sandra Monroy, a cancer patient who underwent a bilateral mastectomy that saved her life.
The jury has highlighted that the image, published in various media, "captures a moment of maximum pain, in which the wound is still recent and that still manages to convey hope".
For the jury, the value of this photograph lies "in the unusual portrait of raw intimacy, which affects many women around the world."
The best photography category rewards, in accordance with quality and journalistic rigor criteria, the best image published during 2021 in a communication medium originally in Spanish, whether printed or digital.
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Domínguez, one of the journalists responsible for the investigation into the abuses of the Church: "Having brought this scandal to light has been a pride"
One of the journalists from EL PAÍS responsible for the investigation into the abuses of the Church, Íñigo Domínguez, is grateful for the award: "Our thoughts are with the people who have suffered these horrible crimes. We have done it for them, because they have come to the newspaper as their last hope in the face of injustice and impunity and we could not fail them. Feeling that we could not fail them was a burden that required us to do our job well. Having brought this scandal to light has been a source of pride, like working at a newspaper that has made it possible. This has been like a descent into hell. Those of us who have worked on this are surely not the same as when we started.
There is something amazing in that story.
It was something that many people in many places wanted to be known, but nobody listened to them.
But they found a newspaper that listened to them.
Everyone has looked the other way and EL PAÍS has been alone in this story.
A newspaper has these things.
But what unites us all, which is the secret of a successful newspaper, is that we all think the same.
We think of the reader.
They are the real bosses.
This is a work by Soledad Gallego Díaz, José Manuel Romero, Amaya Iribar, Joaquín Gil, Oriol Güell, Maite Nieto, Daniele Graso, Emilio Sánchez Hidalgo, Pablo Guimón, Silvia Blanco.
And all those who have believed in this story.
Good journalism sometimes needs lots of people and strong newsrooms."
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'Pederasty in the Spanish Church', Ortega y Gasset 2022 award for Best Story or Journalistic Investigation
The Ortega y Gasset award for Best Story or Journalistic Investigation goes to
Pederasty in the Spanish Church
, an investigation published in the newspaper EL PAÍS.
The jury has highlighted "the fundamental value of a long-term investigation, on facts hidden and concealed for decades, giving a voice to adults broken by the terrible experiences of childhood."
Likewise, he stressed that it is "an investigation that has an impact on people's lives, prompting the public powers and the Church to initiate their own investigations."
Finally, it has valued the participation of citizens who, through an email enabled by the newspaper, have nurtured an accounting of more than 600 cases of abuse with more than 1,200 victims.
The journalists
Julio Núñez, Íñigo Domínguez, Lucía Foraster, Paola Navogitch and Daniel Verdú
collect the award on behalf of the team .
The Best Story or Journalistic Investigation category rewards, according to criteria of quality and journalistic rigor, the best text published during the year 2021, originally in Spanish, in a print or digital media.
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Well, to the winners: "You show that [journalism] is more alive than ever and remains as necessary as ever"
The director of EL PAÍS, Pepa Bueno
, during her speech at the awards ceremony, congratulates all the winners.
"It is an honor to have you in the winners of the Ortega y Gasset Awards. Thank you for your work that shows how wrong the apocalyptic forecasts are about the present and future of journalism. You show that it is more alive than ever and continues to be as necessary as forever".
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Good: "Good journalism is the best antidote to polarization"
The director of EL PAÍS, Pepa Bueno,
during his speech at the awards ceremony: "Real journalism is defined by truth and independence. Different journalists will parade through this stage, united by the decision to tell the truth, whoever falls. It doesn't matter the medium The format doesn't matter. If it's journalism, that's what journalists have done, and it will have been subjected to a demanding and economically expensive protocol, but it will help make citizens more lucid, more critical, more aware, but not more haters. Good journalism, the one that confronts us with the complexity and contradictions of life, discourse and politics, is the best antidote to polarization Journalism is done by many and only makes sense when many read it, they listen or they see it.Journalism weaves the threads that make us a community.This year's awards recognize this passionate and collective journalism."
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Ximo Puig: "There is a before and after the investigation of the abuses of the Church of EL PAÍS"
The
president
of the Generalitat Valenciana, Ximo Puig:
"Every journalist knows a maxim: news is something that someone does not want to be known, the rest is propaganda or publicity. That is precisely the spirit that permeates this year's Ortega y Gasset Awards. Four awards that share the same will: to bring out in the light of injustices hidden by the interest of someone or silenced by the disinterest of the majority. There is a before and after of the investigation of the abuses of the Church of EL PAÍS. Nothing is going to be the same anymore. This coverage drinks from the best journalism".
Puig has also made reference to the war correspondents assassinated in Burkina Faso and who will receive this year's Ortega y Gasset Award for Best Professional Career, David Beriain and Roberto Fraile.
"It is necessary to remind all those who take on the causes of others,
David and Roberto did it with passion and professionalism.
Today's winners wanted to bring to light what remained in the dark.
They have all fought for the truth."
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Two years without seeing each other due to the pandemic
"This gala is special because we haven't seen each other for two years, due to the pandemic, and because for the first time in their 39-year history they leave Madrid," recalls RTVE journalist Laura Siscar, presenter of the gala.
The writer Rosa Montero has not missed the appointment of the Ortega y Gasset.
“It is always good to leave Madrid.
And this building is wonderful”, the writer stated about the Palau de les Comunicacions, the former headquarters of the Post Office, where the award ceremony is held.
La plana mayor de la política valenciana está asistiendo a la ceremonia, desde el presidente de la Generalitat, el socialista Ximo Puig, hasta la portavoz parlamentaria del PP, María José Català, pasando por la vicepresidenta valenciana, Mónica Oltra, de Compromís, o la portavoz en las Cortes de Unides Podem, Pilar Lima.
En la imagen, de Luis Sevillano, un momento de la ceremonia con la presentadora, Laura Siscar, en el escenario.
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Arranca la gala de entrega de los Premios Ortega y Gasset de Periodismo 2022
EL PAÍS entrega los Premios Ortega y Gasset de Periodismo en una ceremonia que se celebra en el Palau de les Comunicacions de Valencia. La periodista de RTVE Laura Siscar conduce el evento, en el que recibirán los galardones de esta 39ª edición informadores de EL PAÍS, Efe y Divergentes, entre otros. Intervendrán también el presidente de la Generalitat Valenciana, Ximo Puig; y la directora de EL PAÍS, Pepa Bueno, que conversará con Carlos Fernando Chamorro, periodista nicaragüense ganador del premio a la mejor trayectoria profesional en 2021. Bueno también debatirá con los columnistas de EL PAÍS Luz Sánchez-Mellado y Manuel Jabois.
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Cuatro categorías para reconocer el mejor periodismo
Los Premios Ortega y Gasset de Periodismo se dividen en cuatro categorías: Mejor historia o investigación periodística, Mejor cobertura multimedia, Mejor fotografía y Trayectoria profesional.
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Buenas tardes. Les damos la bienvenida al directo de la gala de los Premios Ortega y Gasset de periodismo que organiza EL PAÍS. En esta 39ª edición, que se celebra este martes en Valencia, se entregarán los galardones a Wilfredo Miranda y Carlos Herrera, representantes del equipo de Divergentes
, Nicaraguan media outlet winner in the category of best multimedia coverage;
Sáshenka Gutiérrez, award for best photography;
and the EL PAÍS team that investigated pedophilia in the Spanish Church, winners in the category of best story or journalistic investigation.
The relatives of David Beriain and Roberto Fraile also attend this year's professional career awards.
Both were killed in 2021 while doing a report in Burkina Faso.
You can follow the event live here.
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