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Ortega Y Gasset Awards
The Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards are named after the Spanish philosopher and journalist José Ortega y Gasset. The awards were created by the newspaper '' El País'' in 1984. Every year, these awards are given to those whose work has shown "a remarkable defense of freedom, independence, honesty and professional rigor as essential virtues of journalism". The awards were originally divided in four categories: *''Periodismo impreso'' (printed journalism) *''Periodismo digital'' (digital journalism) *''Periodismo gráfico'' (graphic journalism) *''Trayectoria profesional'' (career award) As of 2016, the new categories are: *''Mejor Historia e Investigación Periodística'' (Best Story or Journalistic Investigation) *''Mejor Cobertura Multimedia'' (Best Multimedia Coverage) *''Mejor Fotografía'' (Best photography) *''Trayectoria profesional'' (Career Award) Winners * 2000: **Best Information Work: Ernesto Ekaizer **Best Opinion Article: Fernando Savater **Best Research Work: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Ortega Y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset (; 9 May 1883 – 18 October 1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist. He worked during the first half of the 20th century, while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism, and dictatorship. His philosophy has been characterized as a "philosophy of life" that "comprised a long-hidden beginning in a pragmatist metaphysics inspired by William James, and with a general method from a realist phenomenology imitating Edmund Husserl, which served both his proto-existentialism (prior to Martin Heidegger's) and his realist historicism, which has been compared to both Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce." Biography José Ortega y Gasset was born 9 May 1883 in Madrid. His father was director of the newspaper ''El Imparcial'', which belonged to the family of his mother, Dolores Gasset. The family was definitively of Spain's end-of-the-century liberal and educated bourgeoisie. The liberal tradition and journalistic engagement of his family had a pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanjuana Martínez
Sanjuana Martínez Montemayor is a Mexican journalist born on 1963 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. She received Mexico's National Journalism Award in 2006 and the Ortega y Gasset Award in 2008. Since 2019 she has been the director of the Mexican news agency, Notimex. Journalistic career Martínez studied at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León in Nuevo León, Mexico. and did graduate studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has investigated issues related to human rights, gender violence, terrorist activity, and organized crime in Mexico, in the United States, and in Europe. She has worked for Diario de Monterrey, Canal 2 de Monterrey, Proceso magazine. She worked for Proceso magazine as a correspondent to Madrid for 18 years. Martínez has studied and reported on the migratory phenomena of Europe and North Africa. She toured the Mexico–United States border to report on the details of the daily toils of Mexican m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Rusbridger
Alan Charles Rusbridger (born 29 December 1953) is a British journalist, who was formerly editor-in-chief of ''The Guardian'' and then principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Rusbridger became editor-in-chief of ''The Guardian'' in 1995, having been a reporter and columnist earlier in his career. Rusbridger stood down from the post at the end of May 2015 and was succeeded by Katharine Viner. From 2015 to 2021, Rusbridger was principal of Lady Margaret Hall in the University of Oxford. He was appointed chair of the university's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in 2016. In 2020, Rusbridger was announced as one of the first members of the Oversight Board created by Facebook. His appointment as incoming editor of '' Prospect'' magazine was announced in July 2021. Life and career Early career Rusbridger was born in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia, a British protectorate (now Zambia).Ken Aulett"Annals of Communications: Freedom of Information" ''The New Yorker'', 7 Octo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesús De La Serna
Jesús de la Serna (Santander, 18 June 1926 – Madrid, 5 September 2013) was a Spanish journalist. Biography De la Serna was born in the Spanish city of Santander in 1926. His father, Víctor de la Serna, was also a journalist, whilst his grandmother, Concha Espina, was a novelist. He followed in his father footsteps and began to work as a journalist in the 50s. He was the chief editor of both ''Teresa'' magazine and ''Pueblo'' journal. He was later appointed editor of ''Informaciones''. In 1979, he joined PRISA so as to work as an advisor. Two years later, in 1981, he was appointed deputy director for ''El País''. Besides, he was in charge of several sections of this newspaper until 1989. That very year, he took over the management of the Fundación Escuela de Periodismo, driven by the Autonomous University of Madrid The Autonomous University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; UAM), commonly known as simply la Autónoma, is a Spanish public university lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilio Morenatti
Emilio Morenatti (born 1969) is a Pulitzer Prize winning Spanish photojournalist, working for the Associated Press since March 2004. Morenatti was born in 1969 in Zaragoza, Spain, where his father was serving as a police officer, and raised in Jerez de la Frontera. While working in Gaza City in 2006, he was kidnapped, and held for 15 hours, but released unharmed. In August 2009, he lost a foot when a roadside improvised explosive device exploded near the vehicle in which he was travelling, while embedded with US military forces in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He was Pictures of the Year International's photographer of the year for newspapers in 2009. The same year, he achieved a National Headliner Award gold medal. He was the National Press Photographers Association's photographer of the year in 2010. In 2013 he won "Contemporary Issues, 3rd prize singles" in the World Press Photo awards. He won the Ortega y Gasset Award for Graphic Journalism, also in 2013, and a 2021 Pulitzer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Evans
Sir Harold Matthew Evans (28 June 192823 September 2020) was a British-American journalist and writer. In his career in his native Britain, he was editor of ''The Sunday Times'' from 1967 to 1981, and its sister title ''The Times'' for a year from 1981, before being forced out of the latter post by Rupert Murdoch. While at ''The Sunday Times'', he led the newspaper's campaign to seek compensation for mothers who had taken the morning sickness drug thalidomide, which led to their children having severely deformed limbs. In 1984, he and his wife Tina Brown moved to the United States where he became an American citizen, retaining dual nationality. He held positions in journalism with '' U.S. News & World Report'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', and the New York ''Daily News''. In 1986, he founded ''Condé Nast Traveler''. He wrote books on history and journalism, such as ''The American Century'' (1998). In 2000, he retired from positions in journalism to spend more time on his writing. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moisés Naím
Moisés Naím (born July 5, 1952) is a Venezuelan journalist and writer. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In 2013, the British magazine '' Prospect'' listed Naím as one of the world's leading thinkers. In 2014 and 2015, Dr. Naím was ranked among the top 100 influential global thought leaders by Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute (GDI) for his book ''The End of Power''. ''"The End of Power"'' was also selected as the first book for followers of Mark Zuckerberg's 2015 book club to read. Naím served as the editor-in-chief of ''Foreign Policy'' magazine for 14 years (1996-2010). Since 2012, he has directed and hosted ''Efecto Naím'', a weekly televised news program on the economy and international affairs that airs throughout the Americas on NTN24. In 2011, he received the Ortega y Gasset Prize for his important contribution to journalism in the Spanish language. He is the former Minister of Trade and Industry for Venezuela, Director of i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Daniel
Jean Daniel Bensaid (21 July 1920 – 19 February 2020) was a French journalist and author. He was the founder and executive editor of ''Le Nouvel Observateur'' weekly now known as ''L'Obs''. Life and career Daniel was born in Blida, Algeria, as the youngest of 11 children. His father, Jules Bensaid, was a flour miller. Jean Daniel attended the University of Algiers before the Second World War. During the war, he was part of a resistance group that aided the liberation of Algiers, and he participated in the Normandy landings as part of the Free French forces led by Philippe Leclerc. Following the war, Daniel attended Sorbonne University (studying philosophy) and worked for Félix Gouin as a speechwriter. Daniel was a Jewish humanist in the tradition of the French Left. He was a colleague and friend of Albert Camus, a fellow pied-noir (French-Algerian). In ''La prison juive: Humeurs et méditations d'un témoin'' (''The Jewish Prison''), Daniel argued that prosperous, assimilate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Tomás Eloy Martínez (July 16, 1934January 31, 2010) was an Argentine journalist and writer. Life and work He was born on July 16, 1934 in San Miguel de Tucumán and is generally considered an influential and innovative figure in Latin America both as journalist and a novelist. Eloy Martínez obtained a degree in Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Tucumán, and an Masters of Art at the University of Paris. From 1957 to 1961 he was a film critic in Buenos Aires for the ''La Nación'' newspaper, and he then was editor in chief of the magazine ''Primera Plana'' between 1962 and 1969. From 1969 to 1970 he worked as a reporter in Paris. In 1969 Eloy Martínez interviewed former Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón, who was exiled in Madrid. These interviews were the basis for two of his more celebrated novels: ''La Novela de Perón'' (1985) and ''Santa Evita'' (1995). In these as in many of his books he combined historical true facts with fictional con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolfo Suárez
Adolfo Suárez González, 1st Duke of Suárez (; 25 September 1932 – 23 March 2014) was a Spanish lawyer and politician. Suárez was Spain's first democratically elected prime minister since the Second Spanish Republic and a key figure in the country's transition to democracy after the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. When Spain was still an autocratic regime, he was appointed prime minister by King Juan Carlos in 1976, hoping that his government could bring about democracy. At the time of his appointment, he was not a well-known figure, making many political forces skeptical of his government. However, he oversaw the end of the Francoist Cortes, and the legalisation of all political parties (including the Communist Party, a particularly difficult move). He led the Union of the Democratic Centre and won the 1977 general election. In 1981, he resigned and founded the party Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), which was elected to the Cortes numerous times. He retired from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
