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Octavio Enríquez, Carlos Martínez D´Abuisson, Cristóbal Manuel Sánchez Rodríguez and Moisés Naím are among the winners of Ortega y Gasset Awards for Journalism 2011

11-04-2011

The Ortega y Gasset Awards for Journalism, organized by the newspaper El País, has been awarded in the Print Journalism category to Octavio Enriquez, for his articles on Tomas Borge, former Interior Minister of Nicaragua, published in the newspaper La Prensa. The jury praised the journalist's investigative work, carried out under difficult conditions, into the covert transactions of Tomas Borge. It is a thorough, courageous and well documented investigation.

In the category for Digital Journalism, the prize went to Carlos Martínez D'Abuisson, for his blog El criminalista del país de las últimas cosas, published in the newspaper El Faro in El Salvador. The jury praised this chilling account of a country torn apart by violence. The author, with the skill of a surgeon, dissected the pain of relatives, witnesses and victims of kidnappings, rapes and murders.

The Ortega y Gasset Award for the best work of Photojournalism was given, unanimously, to Cristóbal Manuel Sánchez Rodríguez, for his picture Young Man walking naked in Port au Prince, published in the newspaper El País. The jury recognized the quality of an image that captured the utter desolation of a devastated country. The chilling photograph reflects the uncanny harmony and the loneliness of man in a chaotic and hopeless world.

Finally, the jury gave the Ortega y Gasset Award for Outstanding Professional Career to the journalist Moises Naim. The jury said they wished to honor the jounalist's independence, great strengths and formidable analytical skills, all qualities that have made him essential reading in Spanish. Naim brings the world's key issues within reach of the reader.

The jury of this twenty-eighth edition of one of the most prestigious journalism prizes in the Spanish language was chaired by the director of the Royal Spanish Academy, José Manuel Blecua. The other jury members were the filmmaker Daniel Sánchez-Arévalo, José Alvarez Junco, Professor of History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Amparo Moraleda, director of international area of ​​Iberdrola, and the four Chief Editors of El País since its founding: Juan Luis Cebrián, Joaquín Estefanía, Jesus Ceberio and Javier Moreno. José Manuel Calvo, deputy editor of El País, served as secretary.

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