Submissions now open for the 33rd edition of the Ortega y Gasset Awards

The Ortega y Gasset Awards for Journalism, given by EL PAÍS,  this year celebrate their thirty-third edition. The awards, the most prestigious prizes for journalism in Spanish, also coincide this year with the 40th anniversary of El País. Prizes will be given for best multimedia work, best news article, best photojournalism work and outstanding career. In addition, the ceremony will each year now invite a guest country, which will provide the keynote speaker.

Applications must be submitted by March 14. All the details are available at www.premiosortegaygasset.com.

The category of best news article pays tribute to quality and rigor, and honors the best article published in 2015, originally in Spanish, in print or digital media.

The category of best multimedia work recognizes the best work published in 2015, originally in Spanish and in multimedia format, in any digital media. Included in this category are those published in a digital environment combining different narratives and / or elements, such as text, image, video, graphics… 

The prize for the best work of photojournalism will be presented to the best photograph published in 2015 in print or digital media. Last year the award went to José Palazón, director of the NGO Prodein, for his image of immigrants atop the Melilla fence while a couple play golf.

The category of outstanding career honors dedication to a career in professional journalism. Last year’s winner was Venezuelan journalist Teodoro Petkoff, founder of the newspaper Tal Cual.

Last year’s winners also included Gerardo Reyes and his team at Univision in the category for digital journalism for their report showing how organized crime is using illegal mining as a source of revenue matching that of drugs in Latin America. Pedro Simón and Alberto di Lolli, from El Mundo, won the award for best work of print journalism for a series of reports about the waste of public money in Spain.

The winners will receive a commemorative sculpture by Eduardo Chillida and a cash prize of 15,000 euros.

More information and rules here.