Editorial Unit and Vocento announce the 3rd David Gistau Journalism Award

Vocento and Unidad Editorial announce the third edition of the David Gistau Journalism Award, an award that was born in 2020 as a recognition and tribute to the figure of the journalist and writer, who died in February of that year, and who had long since become a benchmark in reporting and columnism in the panorama of the national press.

The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros and wants to support quality journalism.

For this, it recognizes journalistic collaborations or opinion pieces published in the printed or digital press, radio or television.

The works presented must have been published or broadcast between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022 in Spanish.

The award, in which the ACS Foundation and Santander collaborate, appraises the independence, honesty and courage of the texts presented, all of which are values ​​that David Gistau's journalism embodied throughout his professional career, most of which he developed mainly in this newspaper and also in

.

Gistau (Madrid, 1970) was a unique journalist who combined

.

His career as a columnist started when he was very young, something unusual in the genre, in the pages of La Razón at the end of the 90s. Already then he was addressing the thematic places with which he would hook the newspaper reader: from politics to the intimacy of family, football, cinema, boxing... With his precocity, he opened the door to a whole generation of firms for which he became a benchmark, with a casual style that he cultivated from the beginning, using pieces of classic Spanish columnism with a groundbreaking modernity.

As a writer, he published different works: Background noise, Low blows or People who left.

In the last edition, the David Gistau Prize went to Diego S. Garrocho (Madrid, 1984) for his opinion article

, published in

on January 15, 2021. The jury, which selected the article from more than 350 candidates, highlighted "the intellectual residue" and "the commitment in defense of philosophical and ethical thought."

The first David Gistau Journalism Prize went to the writer Alberto Olmos, with his article

(published by

), chosen from more than 400 candidates for "the irony and sensitivity with the one that addresses a social scourge without falling into sentimentality or slogans ».

The period for registering

candidates for this third edition is open from today, September 1, until the next day, September 22, at 2:00 p.m.

More information at www.premiodavidgistau.com.

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