Ortega y Gasset Awards
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The Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards are named after the Spanish philosopher and journalist José Ortega y Gasset
. The awards were created by the newspaper El País in 1984.
Every year, these awards are given to journalists whose work has shown a remarkable defense of freedom, independence and professional rigor.
José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist working during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. He was, along with Nietzsche, a proponent of the idea of perspectivism.-Biography:José Ortega y Gasset was...
. The awards were created by the newspaper El País in 1984.
Every year, these awards are given to journalists whose work has shown a remarkable defense of freedom, independence and professional rigor.
Winners
- 2000: John CarlinJohn CarlinJohn Carlin is a journalist and author, dealing with both sports and politics. His book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation about former South African president Nelson Mandela is the basis for the 2009 film Invictus.-Personal life:Carlin was born to a Scottish father...
- 2001: José Valdés and the Research team of ReformaReformaReforma is a Mexican newspaper based in Mexico City. It has 276,700 readers in Mexico City. The paper shares content with other papers in parent newsgroup Grupo Reforma. The cumulative readership of the newsgroup is above 400,000...
(Print Journalism). Gorka Lejarcegi (Photojournalism). El ComercioEl ComercioEl Comercio is a Peruvian newspaper based in Lima. It has a circulation of more than 120,000 copies. It was founded in 1839, making it the oldest newspaper of Peru and one of the oldest in the Spanish language....
de Lima (Extraordinary Category) - 2002: The Miami HeraldThe Miami HeraldThe Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company headquartered on Biscayne Bay in the Omni district of Downtown Miami, Florida, United States...
(Printed Journalism). Ángeles Espinosa – El País (Printed Journalism). Andrés Carrasco Ragel – Diario de Cádiz (Photojournalism) - 2003: Roberto Pombo (Best Opinion Article). Xurxo Lobato (Best Graphic News). Spanish journalists who distinguished themselves in the war in Iraq (Special Award)
- 2004: Bru Rovira (Print Journalism). Sergio Pérez Sanz (Graphic Information). El Nuevo DíaEl Nuevo DíaEl Nuevo Día is a Puerto Rican newspaper based in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico and distributed daily throughout Puerto Rico and some parts of the United States.- History :...
(Print Journalism) - 2005: Leticia Álvarez and Rosana Lanero – El Comercio de Gijón (Best Information Work). Giannina Segnini, Ernesto Rivera and Mauricio Herrera – La Nación (Best Research Work). Pablo Torres (Photography).
- 2006: La OpiniónLa OpiniónLa Opinión is a Spanish-language daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, USA and distributed throughout the six counties of Southern California. It is the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the United States and second-most read newspaper in Los Angeles . It is published by...
(Printed Journalism). Jose Lozano and Monica Lozano. – El País honors La Opinión for its pioneering trajectory over eighty years creating and maintaining an unprecedented media outlet for the growing Hispanic population in the United States. - 2007:
- 2008: Yoani SánchezYoani SánchezYoani Maria Sánchez Cordero is a Cuban blogger who has achieved international fame and multiple international awards for her critical portrayal of life in Cuba under its current government....
, Ahmed Taha, Honain Preparatory, Saudi ArabiaSaudi ArabiaThe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
, one of the World's progressive intellectuals, For his exclusive coverage on the Israeli Offensive in Gaza, including his contributing article in TIMETimeTime is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....
magazine, and his exposing for a Tape for the Congresswoman Jane HarmanJane HarmanJane Margaret Lakes Harman is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1993 to 1999, and from 2001 to 2011. She is a member of the Democratic Party....
agreeing to lobby for alleged IsraeliIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
spies.
External links
- Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards - Official site and list of winners