An image of Mohammed SalimOrtega y Gasset award for The photograph of a woman with her dead five-year-old niece in her arms in the morgue of a hospital in Gazalistening through a friend’s phone to the audience’s applause for his work, he condensed this Tuesday the spirit of the 41st edition of the most prestigious journalism awards in Spain.
Salem was not able to travel from Gaza to the Sal de Cent of the Barcelona City Council, the city that hosted the Ortega y Gasset Awards for the first time. In Gaza, more than a hundred journalists have been murdered. That’s why, The director of El Pas, Pepa Bueno, had previously warned that there are disturbing signs about press freedomwith the risk of discrediting journalism and warning of the danger of many libels that make a lot of money, because hate is a business.
Well, he remembered four other events: the attacks on freedom of expression in Italy, in El Salvador and also in Spain, where he recalled the case of threats by Miguel ngel Rodríguezchief of staff of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Daz Ayuso, to journalists from elDiario.es and El Pas. If you discredit journalism you are neutralizing the information that we can tell, what bothers and what does not; That is the political objective, he said in a talk with journalist Carlos del Amor.
Salvadoran journalists Juan José Martínez and Bryan Avelar They received recognition for the best journalistic investigation for their three-chapter chronicle Moskitia: the Honduran jungle is drowning in cocaine, a two-year long work published by InSight Crime. We will never be silent, they warned.
Mexico. The award for best multimedia coverage went to Ciudad sin aguaa people against the Concrete giant, published by N+Focus with the leadership of Jennifer Gonzlez Posadas and Alejandro Melgoza Rocha. A work that explains how financial and real estate power has been able to limit the use of water to families who have resided for generations in Xoco, in Mexico City.
The photographer Cristina Garcia Roderothe first Spaniard to be part of the legendary Magnum Agency took over from Martín Caparrs as a prize for professional career. The jury valued the valuable work of a pioneer and reference in documentary photography who continues to be a teacher of photographers today, and who stepped into emptied Spain decades ago when that concept did not yet exist.
The awards
best story
Moskitia: the Honduran jungle drowns in cocaine (Bryan Avelar and Juan Jos Martnez)
Multimedia coverage
City without water, a town against the concrete giant (Jennifer González and Alejandro Melgoza)
Multimedia coverage (mencin)
The life of Jebreel: diary of an uncomfortable witness in Gaza (RTVE).
Photographer
Mohammed Salem
Trajectory
Cristina Garcia Rodero
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