Alexey Kovalev and Luz Escobar, winners of the International Journalism Awards EL MUNDO

The

celebrate their twentieth edition, freedom of expression and the free flow of information by awarding their prizes to two reporters who, from different parts of the globe, are an example of the fundamental values ​​of the profession: courage and rigor.

In the

category , the winner was the Russian journalist

, head of research for the

news project , based in

(Latvia).

And in the

category, the winner is the Cuban journalist

, a reporter for the digital medium 14 y medio and currently under house arrest in her country.

After the pertinent deliberations, the jury has made the decision to award them this morning and the awards will be delivered when the summer is over.

The members have been

, director of EL MUNDO and president of the jury,

, editor-in-chief of EL MUNDO International, the novelist

;

, senior academic and vice president of the

and Professor of Public International Law and International Relations at the UCM, together with the political scientist

, director of the

and

, former Minister of Culture and writer.

The prize, endowed with 20,000 euros and a commemorative sculpture by the artist

, recognizes rigor, journalistic value, ethical commitment and the defense of freedom of expression.

These awards are being held in memory of EL MUNDO journalists

, a victim of the Iraq war,

, assassinated in Afghanistan, and

, EL MUNDO columnist assassinated by ETA.

Last year, following the absence of the awards in 2020 due to the pandemic, the winners were

, who works at

, and

, a Lebanese journalist and editor of the

.

Kovalev and Escobar thus join a long list of journalism professionals who, over the last two decades, have celebrated the importance of the profession with EL MUNDO.

In 2019, former The

editor Martin Baron and

editor

.

In recent editions, these international awards have also been given to important names in the national and international journalistic profession such as

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

or

.

Raúl Rivero, who died in 2021, was also one of the winners in the 2003 edition. Rivero was imprisoned in Cuba and later became a regular collaborator and columnist for this newspaper.

The newly appointed director of EL MUNDO, Joaquín Manso, has highlighted the value of both winners.

In the midst of the war in Ukraine,

and also that he was responsible for demonstrating, among other things, "Trump's links with the Russian oligarchy."

"There are few sources of information about Ukraine for the Russian citizen," he pointed out.

De Luz Escobar has highlighted her "denunciation work and her courage" defending free information.

Escobar is currently under house arrest.

In the words of Silvia Román, editor-in-chief of the international section of EL MUNDO,

.

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