Ortega y Gasset Awards

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. The awards are currently divided into four categories:

• Periodismo impreso (printed journalism)
• Periodismo digital (digital journalism)
• Periodismo gráfico
• Trayectoria profesional

Winners

• 2000: John Carlin
• 2001: José Valdés and the Research team of Reforma (Print Journalism). Gorka Lejarcegi (Photojournalism).
  • Career award El Comercio, Lima.
• 2002
  • Mejor labor informativa: El Nuevo Herald
  • Mejor reportaje: Ángeles Espinosa – El País
  • Andrés Carrasco Ragel – Diario de Cádiz (Photojournalism)
• 2003:
  • Mejor artículo de opinión (Best Opinion Article): Roberto Pombo:
  • 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 Día (Print Journalism)
• 2005:
  • Leticia Álvarez and Rosana Lanero – El Comercio, Gijón. (Best Information Work).
  • Giannina Segnini, Ernesto Rivera and Mauricio Herrera – La Nación (Best Research Work).
  • Pablo Torres (Photography).
• 2006
  • Career Award: Lozano family for La Opinión.
• 2007
  • Print: Roberto Navia
  • Digital: Mundo.com en español (BBC website)
• 2008
  • Digital: Yoani Sánchez
  • Zeta
• 2009
  • Graphic: Adolfo Suárez Illana (for photo of his father Adolfo Suárez)
• 2010
  • Print: El País (investigative journalism on the Gurtel case)
  • Digital: Judith Torrea (for her blog, Ciudad Juárez, en la sombra del narcotráfico)
• 2012
  • Sir Harold Evans

See also

• Prizes named after people

External links

• Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards - Official site and list of winners