The nomination period for the third edition of
the David Gistau Journalism Award
, created jointly by
Unidad Editorial
and
Vocento
, closed today at 2:00 pm with more than
200
registered works competing for a prize of
10,000 euros
.
The award, sponsored by the ACS Foundation and Santander, pays tribute to the journalist who died in February 2020, who developed a large part of his career in the newspapers
EL MUNDO and
ABC
, and highlights
independent
and quality journalism that
honestly
and courageously embodied David Gistau.
In this third edition of the award, collaborations or journalistic opinion pieces published or broadcast in
print, online, radio or television
between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022, and in Spanish, have been presented.
It will be among all those published pieces among which the jury must designate a new winner.
On October 18, a first selection will be made where the best works will be evaluated and, after an initial selection, on
November 11,
a jury made up of eight experts in the area of journalism and opinion - four from the Editorial Unit and four from Vocento-, will choose the
winner
of the third edition of the award.
On behalf of the Editorial Unit, the jury will
include Leyre Iglesias
, deputy director of Opinion;
Manuel Llorente
, chief editor at
La Lectura
;
Maite Rico
, deputy director of EL MUNDO;
and
Gonzalo Suárez
, editor-in-chief of
Papel
.
On behalf of Vocento are
Jesús García Calero
, director of ABC Cultural;
Lourdes Garzón
, director of Mujerhoy and WomenNOW;
Eduardo Peralta
, editorial director of
Ideal
;
and
Karina Sainz
, a columnist for ABC.
The winner of the first edition of the David Gistau Journalism Prize was the journalist and writer Alberto Olmos and, in the second, the philosopher and writer Diego S. Garrocho.
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