On June the 3rd, the King of Spain, Felipe VI, will present the International Journalism Awards, the most prestigious in the Ibero-American sphere, worth 10,000 euros each, which, in this 41st edition, recognise the work of professionals committed to society and the environment.
The prize money puts these awards on the same level with the Pulitzer Prizes. In their six categories they highlight investigative, daring, participatory and innovative journalism, through which to raise awareness of the problems of today's world.
The awards ceremony for these prizes, created in 1983 by the EFE Agency and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), will be held once again this year in the Gabriela Mistral amphitheatre of the Casa de América in Madrid.
Narrative Journalism
Felipe VI will present the Prize in the Narrative Journalism category to a team of investigative journalists from the Ecuadorian newspaper La Posta, led by the Venezuelan Andersson Boscán, for the report 'El Gran Padrino' (The Great Godfather).
The jury valued in the choice of this work, published on a multimedia website, "the great impact" it had on the political life of Ecuador", as it contributed to the political trial against former president Guillermo Lasso.
Spain's Diego Herrera Carcedo will receive the award for Photography from the Spanish monarch for the series 'Ukraine, chronicle in images of a year of war', published in the magazine 5W.
The work reflects "perfectly the death and precariousness" of the conflict unleashed by the Russian invasion and is "a call to not forget the war", according to the jury.
Ibero-American Media Award
Representatives of Colombia's Mutante will collect the prize for Ibero-American Media, awarded for developing "a new type of journalism that goes beyond the mere publication of investigations", in which "interaction with the public" stands out.
The jury recognised its work as the first digital movement of citizen conversation in Latin America.
Cultural Felipe VI will present the Spanish podcast 'El puzle Voynich', created by Toni Martínez at the Cadena SER radio station, with the Cultural Prize, which the jury awarded for being "an interesting encyclopaedic work" and "a cultural object in itself".
´El puzle Voynich' combines journalistic and fictional techniques to narrate, based on forty interviews in five countries, the departure of the Invincible Armada and the entry into the cabinet of wonders of Rudolf II of Prague, among other events.
Environmental Journalism
The Argentinian newspaper La Nación will receive the Environmental Journalism prize for a work on drought with a very close account that reflects, from the reality of the South American country, a common problem in the world.
Pampa Seca': the faces and stories behind the worst drought in history' includes testimonies, comparative photographs, data and videos.
International Cooperation and Humanitarian Action
Finally, Felipe VI will present the prize for International Cooperation and Humanitarian Action to the Mexican report 'Depredadores en las aulas', published in El Universal in partnership with Connectas, which describes the "terrifying reality" of children and adolescents who are victims of sexual crimes committed by school staff.
This work by Alejandra Mabel Crail Pérez and Daniela Guazo Manzo denounces "the lack of interest, opacity and institutional neglect towards students assaulted by school staff".
In addition to the prize money of 10,000 euros, the winners will receive a sculpture by the artist Joaquín Vaquero Turcios from the hands of Felipe VI.
The King of Spain International Journalism Awards, which this year attracted 293 entries from 21 countries, led by Spain and Colombia, are sponsored by Iryo and Iberdrola, with the collaboration of Casa de América.
The purpose of these awards is to recognise the work of Spanish- and Portuguese-language journalists from the States that make up the Ibero-American Community of Nations, and from the nations with which Spain has historical ties and cultural and cooperative relations.
