The
David Gistau Journalism Award
already has candidates for its second edition.
At 2:00 p.m. yesterday, the process of presenting the opinion articles that compete for the award given by Vocento and Unidad Editorial in honor of the late journalist and columnist, who developed a large part of his career in the generalist headlines -EL MUNDO and
ABC
- from both groups, with 350 journalistic works.
It will be among all those opinion pieces published in print (166) and digital (174) or broadcast on radio (8) and television (2) that the jury must designate a new winner. In its first edition, the award distinguished the work of Alberto Olmos and his article in
El Confidencial
Things that the poor should know: instructions for when you lose everything
due to "irony and sensitivity" to "tackle a social scourge" such as the so-called hunger queues "without falling into sentimentality or slogans"
This award, created as a tribute to Gistau's death in February 2020,
distinguishes "quality, independent, honest and courageous journalism"
and is sponsored by the ACS Foundation, Mapfre, Santander and Telefónica. These are all those values that the Madrid journalist had embodied during his 20 years of profession, who apart from his opinion articles in EL MUNDO and
ABC
was also a reporter in Afghanistan during the war, covered the World Cup in South Africa, which he won the Spanish national team, and collaborated as a radio talk show host in programs on Onda Cero and Cadena Cope.
Proposals to
apply for the 10,000 euro prize
, which is the financial endowment for this award, have been submitted through a PDF file or a downloadable link by the author or authors, by the address of the medium in which they were published and by institutions or people of recognized prestige in the journalism and culture sector provided that its publication occurs in the period between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021 in any media.
Now, once all the applications have been submitted, a first selection will take place on October 14 at 10.30 am where the best works will be valued. And, once this first screening takes place
, during the second week of November
, on a date yet to be determined, the winner of the journalistic award will finally be chosen.
That decision will fall on eight experts in the Opinion area: four from Unidad Editorial and four from Vocento.
On behalf of the EL MUNDO editor will be
Jorge Bustos, Emilia Landaluce, Rafael Latorre
and
Antonio Lucas
and on behalf of the company to which
ABC
belongs
,
Juan Manuel de Prada, Mar Cohnen, Lorenzo Silva
and
Alberto Aguirre from Carcer
.
The article and the author that have the favor of the members of the jury will be the winners of the second edition of the David Gistau Journalism Award.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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