06. Commitment to society Annual Report 2013 113 Gemma Nierga presented the awards gala, held at the Liceo in Barcelona, in which a total of 26 awards were handed out. Angels Barceló, Pepa Bueno and Jose Antonio Ponseti came on stage to help Nierga to give out the prizes. And there was music from Pablo Alboran India Martinez, Belinda and Eros Ramazzotti. Ortega y Gasset Awards for Journalism Created in 1984 by the newspaper El País, these awards are named after the Spanish philosopher and journalist José Ortega y Gasset. The prize honours work published in Spanish worldwide, recognizing, in particular, work that champions human rights, independence, rigor, curiosity and passion: in short all the hallmarks of excellent journalism. The 29th edition of the Ortega y Gasset Prizes for Journalism took place against the backdrop of the wave of protests arising around the 15M indignado movement in Spain and paid tribute to the courageous commitment of Mexican journalists who cover the criminal gangs who kidnap and kill. The award in the print journalism category Perdidos went to Humberto Padgett for Los Muchachos (“The Lost Boys”) for his reporting on marginalized adolescents who turn to violence and organized crime. Another young journalist won in the category for digital journalism, with Carmela Rios taking the prize for her Twitter coverage of the 15M protest movement. In the category of photojournalism, the winner was Carlos Jacobo Méndez. The jury lauded his picture, taken in Valencia during the 15M indignado movement protests in 2011. In the category of outstanding career, the jury recognized Sir Harold Evans, former editor-in-chief of The Sunday Times and The Times and currently on the management team of the Reuters news agency. The jury, meeting in Madrid, was made up of leading figures from the worlds of media, business and the arts and was chaired by art publications editor Elena Foster. The other members of the jury were actress and theater director Blanca Portillo, the writer Soledad Puértolas, the former editors of El País Jesus Ceberio, Juan Luis Cebrian and Joaquín Estefanía and the current editor Javier Moreno, and journalists Iñaki Gabilondo and Soledad Gallego-Diaz. Jose Manuel Calvo, deputy editor of El País, served as secretary of the jury Alfaguara Literary Prize The Argentinian writer Leopoldo Brizuela (La Plata, Argentina, 1963) was the winner of the the Alfaguara XV Literary Prize, endowed with 133,306 euros and a commemorative sculpture by Martin Chirino, for his novel Una misma noche. The novel revisits the story of victims and perpetrators during the darkest days of Argentina’s military dictatorship, and can be read as both a purge and exorcism. “A work written in the dark, from the most intimate perspective, reflecting everyday society. An existential thriller,” said Rosa Montero, president of the jury, which also included Montxo Armendáriz, Lluís Morral, Jürgen Dormagen, Antonio Orejudo and Pilar Reyes (who, as editor at Alfaguara, had no vote). The Ortega y Gasset Prize for Journalism 2012
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