The Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards are named after the Spanish philosopher and journalist
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 philosoph ...
. 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:
John Carlin
**Graphic: Julio Villarino
* 2001:
**Print: José Valdés and the research team of
Reforma
**Graphic: Gorka Lejarcegi
** Career award ''
El Comercio'', Lima.
* 2002
** Best Information Work: ''
El Nuevo Herald
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About ''el Nuevo ...
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** Best Research: Ángeles Espinosa – ''
El País''
** Graphic: Andrés Carrasco Ragel – ''
Diario de Cádiz
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* 2003:
** Best Opinion Article: Roberto Pombo
**Best Information Work: Spanish journalists who distinguished themselves in the war in Iraq (Special Award)
**Graphic: Xurxo Lobato
* 2004:
**Best Information Work:
El Nuevo Día
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of
Puerto Rico
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**Best Research Work: Bru Rovira
**Graphic: Sergio Pérez Sanz
* 2005:
**Best Information Work: Leticia Álvarez and Rosana Lanero – ''
El Comercio''
**Best Research Work:
Giannina Segnini, Ernesto Rivera and
Mauricio Herrera Ulloa – ''
La Nación
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Its motto is: "''La Na ...
''
**Graphic: Pablo Torres
* 2006
**Print: Matías Vallés, Felipe Armendáriz and Marisa Goñi, journalists of
Diario de Mallorca
**Digital: Sandra Balsells
**Graphic: Sergio Caro
**Career Award: Lozano family for ''
La Opinión
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of Los Angeles''
* 2007
**Print: Roberto Navia
**Digital:
Mundo.com en español (BBC website)
**Graphic: Desirée Martín
**Career award:
Raúl Rivero
Raúl Ramón Rivero Castañeda (23 November 1945 – 6 November 2021) was a Cuban poet, journalist, and dissident.
Early life and career
Rivero was born on 23 November 1945 in Morón, Camagüey, in central Cuba.
In his youth, he was an ard ...
* 2008
**Print:
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 Mexi ...
**Digital:
Yoani Sánchez
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Sánchez attended primary ...
**Graphic: Gervasio Sánchez
**Career Award:
''Zeta'' Magazine
*2009
**Print: Jorge Martínez Reverte
**Digital: Amaya García Ortiz de Jocano
**Graphic:
Adolfo Suárez Illana
Adolfo Suárez Illana (born 5 May 1964) is a Spanish politician, lawyer, author and aficionado-practitioner of bullfighting.
Biography
He is the eldest son of the late Adolfo Suárez González, Prime Minister from 1976 and 1981 and central ...
(for photo of his father
Adolfo Suárez
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)
**Career award:
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 ...
* 2010
**Print: ''
El País'' (investigative journalism on the
Gurtel case)
**Digital:
Judith Torrea (for her blog, "''Ciudad Juárez, en la sombra del narcotráfico"'')
**Graphic: José Cendón
**Career Award:
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, a ...
*2011
**Print: Octavio Enriquez
**Digital: Carlos Martínez D'Abuisson
**Graphic: Cristóbal Manuel Sánchez Rodríguez
**Career Award:
Moisés Naím
* 2012
** Print: Humberto Padgett
**Digital: Carmela Ríos
**Graphic: Carlos Jacobo Méndez
**Career Award: Sir
Harold Evans
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*2013
**Print: Alberto Salcedo Ramos
**Digital: Juan Ramón Robles
**Graphic:
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 ...
**Career Award:
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 ...
*2014
**Print: Pablo Ferri Tórtola, Alejandra Sánchez Inzunza and José Luis Pardo
**Digital: Álvaro de Cózar, Mónica Ceberio, Cristina Pop, Luis Almodóvar, Álvaro de la Rúa, Paula Casado, Fernando Hernández, Ana Fernández, Rubén Gil, José María Ocaña, Gorka Lejarcegi, Gema García and Mariano Zafra
**Graphic: Pedro Armestre
**Career Award:
Alan Rusbridger
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Rusbridger became editor-in-chief of ''The Guardian'' in 1995, hav ...
*2015
**Print: Pedro Simón y Alberto Di Lolli
**Digital: Gerardo Reyes
**Graphic: José Palazón
**Career Award:
Teodoro Petkoff
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*2016
**Best Story or Journalistic Investigation: Joseph Zárate Salazar (for his story "The woman of the blue lagoon against the black lagoon")
**Best Multimedia Coverage: Lilia Saúl and Ginna Morelo (for their coverage "The disappeared")
**Best Photography: Samuel Aranda
**Career Award:
Adam Michnik
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Reared in a family of committed communists, Michnik became an opponen ...
*2017
**Best Story or Journalistic Investigation:
El Periódico of Catalunya (for a series of stories on various cases of
pedophilia
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in several schools in
Barcelona
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**Best Multimedia Coverage: Univisión Noticias (for their story "Holidays in no man's water")
**Best Photography: Yander Alberto Zamora
**Career Award:
Alma Guillermoprieto
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*2018
**Best Story or Journalistic Investigation: Miriam Castillo, Nayeli Roldán and Manuel Ureste (for their investigation "The master scam")
**Best Multimedia Coverage:
Univisión
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, Inger Díaz Barriga (for her story "Better go, Cristina")
**Best Photography: David Armengou and Marcela Miret
**Career Award:
Soledad Gallego-Díaz
Soledad Gallego-Díaz (born 1951) is a Spanish journalist, and was the editor of Spanish newspaper '' El País'' from June 2018 to June 2020.
Biography
Born in Madrid in 1951, she lived for a year in Palo Alto and another year in Nashville wh ...
*2019
**Best Story or Journalistic Investigation: ''
5W''; Agus Morales and Eduardo Ponces (for their investigation "Los muertos que me habitan")
**Best Multimedia Coverage: ''
El Pitazo
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''; Johanna Osorio Herrera y otros (for their investigation "
La generación del hambre")
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**Best Photography: Vincent West of ]Reuters
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The agency was estab ...
(for his image "el empuje y la fuerza")[
**Career Award: Darío Arizmendi][
]
See also
* Prizes named after people
A prize is an award to be given to a person or a group of people (such as sporting teams and organizations) to recognize and reward their actions and achievements.
References
External links
*{{Official site
Journalism awards
1984 establishments in Spain
Journalism in Spain
Awards established in 1984
José Ortega y Gasset