El País editorial team, Judith Torrea, Jean Daniel and José Cendón, Ortega y Gasset Awards for Journalism 2010

The winners of 27th annual Ortega y Gasset Awards for Journalism, sponsored by the newspaper El País, have been announced. In the category for Best Print Journalism Report, the prize went to El País's own national newsdesk, headed by José Manuel Romero, and the paper's editorial team in Valencia for their investigative work on the Gürtel case. The jury praised the excellent teamwork of the El Pais desks, which uncovered and exposed a political corruption scandal, against the numerous attempts from many quarters to hide the truth.

In the category for Digital Journalism, the prize was awarded to Judith Torrea for her blog Ciudad Juárez, en la sombra del narcotráfico (Ciudad Juárez, under the shadow of drug trafficking). The jury lauded her in-depth coverage of one of the most serious and brutal dramas of our time: the criminal and indiscriminate harassment of defenseless people in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

The Ortega y Gasset Prize for Photojournalism was awarded by majority vote to the report Somalia en el fin del mundo (Somalia at the end of the world), by the photographer José Cendón, published in La Vanguardia's Magazine. The jury took into account the high human-interest value of the photographs and the technical quality of the photos, taken under particularly difficult circumstances.

The Jury decided unanimously to give the Ortega y Gasset Prize for most Outstanding Career in Journalism to the Algerian-born French journalist Jean Daniel. As journalist in the French Resistance, friend and colleague of Albert Camus, founder and editor of the magazine Le Nouvel Observateur, and the author of high-quality literary journalism, he has contributed to creating teams of professionals who are now among the most-highly esteemed in the history of European journalism. For 45 years he has been at the forefront of Le Nouvel Observateur, where every week he continues to reflect on world current affairs

The jury for this, the twenty-seventh outing for one of the most prestigious journalism prizes in the Spanish language, was chaired by the director of the Museo de El Prado, Miguel Zugaza. The other jury members were the film director Daniel Monzón, María Garaña, president of Microsof Iberica, writer and journalist Daniel Samper and the four El País directors who have held that post since the paper's founding: Juan Luis Cebrian, Joaquín Estefanía, Jesus Ceberio and Javier Moreno. Juan Cruz served as secretary.

Further information

Basis for participation (In Spanish)