Madrid (EFE).- A jury made up of prestigious international journalists will decide on March 2 the King of Spain International Journalism Awards 2023, the most prestigious in the Ibero-American sphere, to which 133 candidacies from 17 Ibero-American countries have nominated.
These awards, which have been given annually since 1983, reward those stories of journalistic excellence, expressed through writing, image or sound, that help create social awareness, contribute to the education of societies, ensure human rights and the values of democracy.
Colombia is the country that has presented the most candidacies (40), followed by Spain (23), Brazil (23), Argentina (11), Mexico (10), Peru (5), Venezuela and Portugal (4 each), Cuba (3), Nicaragua and Ecuador (2 each) and Honduras, the United States, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Chile and Bolivia, with one each.
The jury will announce the winners on March 2 in the categories of Environmental Journalism, Photography, Cultural, International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid, Narrative and the Best Ibero-American Media.
Each of them is endowed with 10,000 euros, an economic amount that places these prizes at the Pulitzer level.
In this edition, the president of the EFE Agency, Gabriela Cañas, chairs the jury, and Antón Leis, director of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECID) holds the vice-presidency.
Along with them, Patricia Campos Mello, journalist at the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo; Daniel Coronell, president of the Colombian magazine Cambio; Lola García, deputy director of the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia; Laura Puertas, Information Director of Medcom (Panama), and Martha Ramos, General Editorial Director of the OEM group (Mexico).
As secretary of the jury, Lourdes A. Esmorís, director of the Office of the Presidency of the EFE Agency.
The King of Spain International Prize for Narrative Journalism, to which 64 works have competed, will be awarded to the best told story, according to criteria of quality, journalistic rigor and lexical richness, in text, digital, video or audio format, which contributes citizens’ right to information and promote their general interest in knowledge.
The one for Journalism for International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid, with 10 candidacies, will be for the best work, in accordance with the above criteria, in text, digital, video or audio format, which contributes to spreading values related to education or sport that help create fairer, more cohesive societies and improve people’s lives.
Nineteen works compete for the Environmental Journalism Award, which will be for the candidacy that contributes to the communication of behaviors and models of sustainable development, as well as a greater socio-environmental culture.
The Cultural Journalism Award, with 21 works presented, will be for those who contribute to spreading values related to culture or art with the aim of creating more informed societies and encouraging creative and critical thinking in individuals.
The best photograph or graphic report, of the 13 that compete, will fall on the one that stands out for its particular approach and explores all the possibilities of this support, will receive the Photo Journalism award.
Finally, the jury will award the Journalism Award to the Ibero-American Media to the media that has excelled for its informative work and that publishes in Spanish -as well as in any of the languages of the Spanish State- or Portuguese. A means of communication is considered to be the one that disseminates information in any format: printed, digital or audiovisual.
The purpose of the King of Spain International Journalism Awards is to recognize the informative work of Spanish and Portuguese-language journalism professionals from the States that make up the Ibero-American Community of Nations and from the nations with which Spain maintains ties of a historical nature and relations cultural and cooperative
These awards, created by the EFE Agency and the AECID, are the promotion of the best journalism in the two great Iberian international languages, Spanish and Portuguese, and they do so in a geographical cultural space that covers all the continents, promoting the highest quality of the journalistic profession of Latin America.
In addition to the financial prize, the winners will receive from the King of Spain, Felipe VI, a sculpture by the artist Joaquín Vaquero Turcios.
