The EL MUNDO International Journalism Awards, after the stoppage they suffered in 2020 due to the pandemic, already have their winners for their XIX edition:
Anne Applebaum
and
Roula Khalaf
.
The journalist and historian has been chosen in the
Reporters of the World
award
while the director of the Financial Times has been selected in the category of
Columnists of the World
.
The jury wanted to highlight this Thursday in its deliberation the "immense work" of these two women of long history and great reputation in the journalistic profession during their successful and extensive careers. Both will receive 20,000 euros and a commemorative statuette of the artist Martín Chirino as part of the award unanimously agreed by the director of EL MUNDO,
Francisco Rosell
; the journalist
Víctor de la Serna
; the Uruguayan writer
Carmen Posadas
, and the former Minister of Culture and professor,
César Antonio Molina
.
In this way, Applebaum and Khalaf will swell the list of awards that in 2019 already recognized the former director of
The Washington Post
Martin Baron and the director of
The Times
,
John Witherow
. In recent editions these international awards have also been given to important names in the national and international journalistic profession such as Thomas L. Friedman, Lydia Cacho, Anabel Hernández, Mark Thompson, Klaus Brinkbäumer, Manu Brabo, Santi Palacios, Salud Hernández-Mora, Rosa Montero, Arturo Pérez-Reverte or Javier Espinosa.
The EL MUNDO International Awards have been awarded every year, with the exception of the past due to the coronavirus pandemic, since 2002. The World Reporters category honors the memory of the journalists who died in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan,
Julio Anguita Parrado
and
Julio Fuentes
, while
Columnistas del Mundo
is dedicated to the figure of
José Luis López Lacalle
, a columnist for this newspaper assassinated by the terrorist group ETA. "We have not wanted this year to miss our annual meeting with journalism after the months of pandemic that forced us to suspend last year's awards," said the newspaper's director, Francisco Rosell, who headed the quartet of experts who analyzed more than a dozen Spanish, European and world proposals in each of the two categories.
Finally Applebaum and Khalaf, two pioneering women in their positions, were selected. “Applebaum is an extraordinary writer and journalist, she has done
very important research on the gulag
in the Soviet Union, which is an authoritarian regime that has not been explored as much as others, and she has perfectly portrayed this era of the rise of the populisms in which we live today ”, indicated the members of the jury during the deliberation on the journalist of
The Atlantic
, who precisely for her work during the collapse of the Soviet Union received the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for her work
Gulag: the history of the Soviet concentration camps
.
The journalist, born in the American capital, began her work as a reporter in 1988 as a correspondent for The Economist in Warsaw, where she became one of the greatest experts on the communist regimes that for years settled mainly in the countries of Eastern Europe. A knowledge that allowed him to develop his work a posteriori in media such as
The Wall Street Journal
,
Financial Times
,
The Boston Globe
,
The Guardian
or
The Independent
, where he has published both reports and opinion columns.
Of recognized republican ideology and conservative nuance, Applebaum has been shown in recent years as
one of the great critics against populisms
of all political spectrum, from left to right.
One of the figures with whom he has shown the most fierceness in recent times in his texts is the former president of the United States Donald Trump and his latest publication,
The Twilight of Democracy and Lost Friendships
, has been praised as an exhaustive study. of these ideologies today prevailing in much of the world.
For her part, Khalaf boasts the success of being the first woman, since the founding of the
Financial Times
in 1888, to be the editor of one of the most important economic newspapers in the world.
In 2020, the Lebanese-born journalist
was appointed as Lionel Barber's replacement
after having served as his number two for years.
"Being the first woman to direct a reference like the
Financial Times
, when none had achieved it in more than 130 years of history, added to her impeccable career, make her worthy of this recognition," said the members of the jury to present the award to Khalaf, whose main mission has been to try to attract female audiences to his bedside, traditionally linked to a male audience.
With a degree in journalism from the University of Syracuse and a master's degree in International Relations from Columbia University, Khalaf began her career at Forbes magazine, where, among other tasks, she produced a report on
Jordan Belfort
, a character who inspired the movie
The Wolf of the Wall. Street
, before making the leap to the
Financial Times
.
There, in the heart of the City of London, in 1995, the Lebanese reporter arrived who began her work in the economic head as a correspondent for the countries of North Africa and later moved to the Middle East.
After these first tasks, Khalaf was director of the international network of the hundreds of correspondents that the
Financial Times has
, was promoted to deputy director and finally became the director of the economic newspaper.
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