1 | Year in review 2 | PRISA, a global group 3 | Commitments and future challenges 4 | Sustainability at PRISA 5 | Appendix
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ORTEGA Y GASSET JOURNALISM AWARDS
The Ortega y Gasset Awards for Journalism were
created in 1984 by the newspaper El País, and
have become one of the world’s most prestigious
honors for Spanish-language journalism. The prizes
pay tribute to the quality of written, graphic or
audiovisual work published in Spanish and have
grown and evolved in tandem with society: the initial
category for print journalism has been joined
by best multimedia work, best story or investigation,
best photograph and lifetime career.
In 2017, the winning entry in the category of Best
Report or Investigative Journalism went to the series
of reports published by El Periódico de Catalunya
on cases of child sexual abuse at schools in
Barcelona. The award for Best Multimedia Coverage
went to Vacaciones en aguas de nadie (Holidays
in no man’s waters), by Univision Noticias,
an investigation into the multibillion-dollar cruise
industry. In the category of Photojournalism, the
prize went to Yander Alberto Zamora for his photograph
of Air Force One flying over houses in Havana
in March 2016, published by Reuters.
The Lifetime Achievement award was won by journalist
and writer Alma Guillermoprieto, whom the
jury praised for making Mexican journalism truly
international in scope
DIGITAL TALENT AWARDS
El País held the first ever Digital Talent Awards,
which are aimed at promoting digital transformation
in all sectors and at giving a voice to talented
entrepreneurs. In this first edition, the winner was
the NGO Itwillbe’s PPa app that helps homeless
children. This application pioneers the use of palm
vein recognition to identify small children in India
and tracks their location.
Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards 2017.