Ortega y Gasset Awards


The Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards are named after the Spanish philosopher and journalist José Ortega y Gasset. The awards were created by the newspaper El País in 1984.

Categories

Every year, these awards are given to those whose work has shown "a remarkable defense of freedom, independence, honesty and professional rigor as essential virtues of journalism". The awards were originally divided in four categories:
  • Periodismo impreso
  • Periodismo digital
  • Periodismo gráfico
  • Trayectoria profesional
As of 2016, the new categories are:
  • Mejor Historia e Investigación Periodística
  • Mejor Cobertura Multimedia
  • Mejor Fotografía
  • ''Trayectoria profesional''

Winners

2021
  • Best story or Journalistic Investigation: The women who won over the desert, by Isabela Ponce
  • Best Multimedia Coverage: "A salon, a bar and a class," published by Mariano Zafra and Javier Salas in El País,.
  • Best Photography: Birthday, taken by Brais Lorenzo, from the EFE Agency.
  • Career Award: Carlos Fernando Chamorro Barrios.
2022
  • Best story or Journalistic Investigation: Paedophilia in the Spanish Church, published in the newspaper El País.
  • Best Multimedia Coverage:The challenge after the massacre: memory, truth, justice and non-repetition, published by the Nicaraguan media Divergentes.
  • Best Photography: Sashenka Gutiérrez, from the Efe Mexico Agency.
  • Career Award: David Beriáin and Roberto Fraile, two journalists who died in Burkina Faso on April 26, 2021. Recognition of their commitment to the profession by covering forgotten conflicts. This is the first Ortega y Gasset award to be given posthumously, as a tribute to all journalists who die in the exercise of their profession.
2023
  • Best Story or Journalistic Investigation: A family that owes nothing flees the Exceptional Regime, by Julia Gavarrete and published in El Faro de El Salvador.
  • Best Multimedia Coverage: Congo River, by Xavier Aldekoa and published in La Vanguardia.
  • Best Photography: Santi Palacios.
  • Career Award: Martín Caparrós, Argentine journalist and chronicler, is awarded for his work in the profession as a reference for great chronicles written in the Spanish language.