The Ondas Globales Podcast Awards have announced this Thursday the winners of their second edition.
Los papeles
(El País Audio and True Story) has won the prize in the narrative section.
It is a story of corrupt politicians and journalists, but it is also a story of broken friendships, broken trusts and betrayals.
With a rhythm that mixes
judicial and journalistic
thrillers , the program details in six installments the system devised by the Popular Party to receive illegal donations and pay bonuses to its leadership leadership.
Today in El País
it was distinguished as a revelation
podcast
, recognition that it achieved
exaequo
with two other daily information formats, Un tema a día (from
Eldiario.es
) and El Mundo al día (from
El Mundo
).
For the jury, the three "have set the habit of daily listening in a conscious and deep way."
They have also valued the large numbers of their audiences, the tone and the structure, “between the contemporary of the new media and the highest journalistic demand”.
Life and such,
the space for conversations between friends of Ana Milán and Sebastián Gallego was the fourth recognized in that category.
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Listen to 'Los papeles', winner of the award for best narrative 'podcast'
Fiction
The Signature of God
(Podium Podcast) and the El Extraordinario label, both with two awards, Radio Ambulante Studios and the hostess Cristina Miter are other programs that have succeeded in an initiative that seeks to give visibility to the podcast industry in Spanish and recognize the
work
of all its professionals.
Its managers have received on this occasion 1,178 applications from 18 countries, which has meant an increase of 25% compared to the first edition.
The awards, organized by PRISA Audio and Cadena SER, will be delivered on May 3 at the Teatro del Soho CaixaBank in Malaga.
God's signature
, fiction from Podium Podcast —the Prisa Audio platform— created by Jose A. Pérez Ledo (
El gran apagón
,
Guerra 3
), has won the award for best
fiction
podcast and best script of the year.
Through the eight chapters of this first season, it places humanity in an extreme situation and raises ethical questions about science and nature, breaking with two of the notions that sustain our existence.
The story begins with the appearance of a virus with its own will and unknown origin.
The author builds with it a plot with a "deep, almost theological" meaning, he told this newspaper in summer, coinciding with the launch of this work.
The production label El Extraordinario has won two awards in this edition.
Blum
, the fiction that Carmen Pacheco and Manuel Bartual have created in collaboration with Turismo de Suiza, has won the award for best
branded
.
And in the experimental section
Crimes.
The Musical
, a sung version of the traditional
true crime
created by Mar Abad, has won the main award for its original mix of concepts and styles.
"I wanted to combine two things that I don't like to make one that I really enjoy," its creator said in June.
"Actually, the crime is a hook to talk about issues such as history, language, the narrative of the soap opera...", she said.
The special mention of the jury in the experimental category has highlighted the
Argentine daily humor
podcast
A wonderful world
, from Spotify.
Canción Exploder
, adaptation in Spanish of what is already a classic of the
podcast
format in English
Song Exploder
created by the Latin label Adonde Media, appears in the list of winners with the best episode of the year, the one dedicated to the song
Silencio
, by Jorge Drexler.
The 18-minute episode is narrated by the artist and tells the process of creating the theme.
For the jury, "'silence' evokes the best of podcast
creation
as the best possible narrative to tell a story."
Jose A. Pérez Ledo, Best Screenplay and Best Sound Fiction for 'La firma de Dios'.
The award for best career also remains in America, for the veteran and pioneering
podcast
Radio Ambulante
, which has been collecting stories from Latin America for more than a decade.
The jury highlights "having become a total reference for journalism, renewing the style and formula and creating a genuine school of storytelling."
It is also valued "for having accumulated a team full of talent and learning that is the spearhead of the genre beyond language" and for being "a constant inspiration for the documentary genre."
And the award for best production, for the Argentine
Los últimos días de Maradona
, from Spotify and Adonde Media.
The beauty and health specialist Cristina Miter wins the award for best hostess.
As for one of the most popular genres, the conversational genre,
Se regalan dudas
(United States and Mexico) shares the
exaequo
award with the Spanish
Arsenico caviar
, from Podium Podcast.
And Audible, Amazon's platform, wins in the sound design area with its audiobook
Adoleszentes
, by Fernando Pocostales and Teo Rodríguez, while the jury gives a special mention to the Basque fiction
Artxipelagoa
by EITB Media.
On the other hand, the well-known Mexican actor Alfonso Herrera (
Rebelde
,
Sense8
) wins the best performance of the year for Spotify's
Batman Unearthed
.
The best international
podcast
is the American
Punk in Translation: Latinx Origins
and the prize dedicated to Spain's co-official language goes to the Catalan
El silenci de la Ramba
, from SER Podcast, about how life has changed for those who lived firsthand the Barcelona and Cambrills attacks.
The awards ceremony in Malaga will deliver the horses to the winners and award special mentions.
A tribute will also be paid to the Best Podcast of the Year,
Misterio en la Moraleja
,
from Spotify and TrueStory, whose prize was already awarded at the 69th edition of the Ondas de Radio Barcelona Awards last December.
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