Logroño, (EFE).- The radio communicator Víctor Escuelas has won the first edition of the CIBIR Scientific Journalism Award for an interview he conducted with La Rioja chemist Javier García, president of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
The president of the La Rioja Executive, Concha Andreu, has presented the prize to the La Rioja journalist this Monday, in an act held at the Biomedical Research Center of La Rioja (CIBIR), where all the attendees have remembered the journalist responsible for the communication of the Ministry of Health, Sandra Carmona, recently deceased.
This award has been created to promote journalistic communication on science and the veracity of the information that is carried out on research and innovation; Among the five works that had been presented, a jury has considered that the interview with Espuelas, broadcast on Radio Rioja on January 14, 2022, is the one of the highest quality.
The jury, made up of the journalists Eva Vaquero, María Luz Ezquerro, and the scientific and research director of CIBIR, José Ramón Blanco, considered that the award-winning work “combines great journalistic quality, a better knowledge of contemporary problems from the scientific perspective, originality, diffusion and repercussion”.
The president of the La Rioja Press Association, Ana Castellanos, has also participated in this act, who has thanked the regional Executive for creating this award, which recognizes communicators “as a transmission belt” from science to citizens. and “if science advances, we all advance and here we are the journalists to tell about it.”
The winner has highlighted the importance of “knowing how to disseminate good research” and although he has acknowledged that he initially believed that an interview “did not fit” the format of the award, he has stressed that much of the recognition has to do with “how brilliant it is Javier García» who «is capable of making the complicated simple».
In her speech, the President of the Regional Government stressed that this award is intended to bring science, technology and innovation closer to the public and recalled that this recognition “arised from a social need exacerbated by the pandemic: to bring the citizenship issues related to science, technology and innovation. EFE
