El País opens submissions for the Ortega y Gasset Awards for Journalism 2011

The Ortega y Gasset Prize for Journalism, named after one of Spain's greatest thinkers and sponsored by El País, is now in its twenty-eighth year. The awards, the most prestigious in Spanish journalism, will recognize the best work published in 2010 in any country in the Spanish-speaking world. Applications must be submitted by March 31 in one of the following categories: print journalism, digital media, graphic journalism and outsatnding career. The results will be made known before April 30 and published in El País.

The category of print journalism covers the fields of investigative journalism, reports, articles and opinion pieces. Candidates are required to submit two original copies of the publication in which the work appeared.

In the digital media category, candidates should submit their work after completing the form available online at http://www.premiosortegaygasset.com/.This award recognizes the most outstanding work published on the internet.

In the category for graphic journalism, candidates should submit copies of their work, duplicate on CD or DVD, and one copy of the magazine or newspaper where their photographs have been published.

Candidates for the award for Outstanding Career in Journalism will be considered after submission of two copies of the proposal detailing the merits of the individual or media being put forward.

The prize money is 15,000 euros in each category and each winner also receives a commemorative sculpture by Eduardo Chillida.

Lat year, the Ortega y Gasset awards recognized the work of the newspaper El País for its coverage of the "Gürtel affair" in the print journalism category. Judith Torrea won for for her blog Ciudad Juárez, en la sombra del narcotráfico (Ciudad Juárez, under the shadow of drug trafficking) in the digital media category; in the graphic journalism category the prize was awarded to the photographer José Cendón for his report Somalia en el fin del mundo (Somalia at the end of the world). The prize for most Outstanding Career in Journalism went to the French journalist Jean Daniel.

Further information:

http://www.premiosortegaygasset.com/ (in Spanish)