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The journalistic work of EL TIEMPO Casa Editorial was recognized yesterday in three categories of the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award, whose winners were announced in a virtual ceremony, due to the pandemic, through the page and networks of this award.
On this occasion, the jury was chaired by Fernando Ramírez, who included the company of Piedad Bonnett, Carlos Cortés, Mauricio García, Patricia Gómez, José Navia and Maryluz Vallejo.
The report ‘Bojayá Massacre. Their dead finally rest in peace ‘, won in the category of best multimedia work. This work was led by the Bogotá editor, Guillermo Reinoso, with the support of the Specials editor, José Alberto Mojica and the head of digital design, Sandra Rojas.
Also with the participation of Heidi Tamayo, Juan David López, Jáiver Nieto, Héctor Fabio Zamora, Sebastián Márquez, Alejandra Anderson Jiménez, Claudia Cuadrado León, Juan Sebastián Forero, Giovany Ariza, Maru Lombardo, Andrés Mompotes, Deputy Director of Information of EL TIEMPO , and Beiman Pinilla, Design editor.
(See the winning work: Bojayá Massacre. Their dead at last rest in peace)
“To embark on this special is to return to Bojayá hand in hand with the victims. It is hearing their song, remembering the tragedy and accompanying them to say goodbye to their loved ones. The chronicles speak as much as the videos or the family tree that illustrates in a painful way the reality of families, destroyed by violence. This special is both a tribute and a warning. And from a technical point of view, it reminds us that the ultimate goal of the combination of formats is to move the story forward, ”the jury highlighted.
And with the image titled ‘Brutal aggression’, the photographer Héctor Fabio Zamora won in the best graphic report category. Zamora achieved the image during the protests of the national strike in November 2019.
Héctor Fabio Zamora, winner of the Simón Bolívar Prize in the graphic reporting category.
“In a short sequence of four photographs with perfect framing, the author demonstrates his ability to react to capture, at the exact moment, the entire development of a violent action against a defenseless victim, whose surprise he captures in a very expressive way. The photographer, in addition to skill, has the power to report how far police abuse can go, the conditions of disproportion between the attacker and his victim and the violence against women that the action entails ”, the jury notes in its minutes.
On the other hand, Julián Camilo Ríos, a journalist from the Justice section of this newspaper, won the Stimuli award for young journalism with the research ‘Universo Fornite’, which he published in the magazine DONJUAN.
(This was the winning work: ‘Fornite Universe’)
For the jury, this work “immerses us in the universe of virtual entertainment and shows us how a simple video game managed to get 250 million people -including some Colombians- to connect, share and compete for a purse of 4,000 million dollars. This text surprises and becomes a great work of young journalism ”.
The jury recognized Jorge Cardona Alzate, General Editor of El Espectador, where he has worked for 28 years, with the Grand Prize for the Life and Work of a Journalist. “He has been an outstanding student and teacher par excellence of that school in which he has trained at least two generations of journalists,” the record highlights.
For his part, Ricardo Calderón, who has just retired from Semana magazine, was awarded the Journalist of the Year Award. “If investigative journalism consists of publicizing facts that some powerful person wants to keep hidden, Calderón is the perfect performer of that task that enriches democracy. He has had to take many risks because of this, and still go against the pressure that he may receive from the medium for which he works ”, the jury highlighted.
The best cartoon category was won by the artist Carlos Mario Gallego -Mico-, from El Espectador.
Other winners
Other winners in this 54th edition of the most important journalism awards in the country were: Julián Isaza (El Malpensante Magazine), Juan Pablo Barrientos (Caracol Radio), Guillermo Gómez, (Noticias Uno), José Guarnizo (Semana.com) , Carlos Granés (El Espectador), Álvaro Tavera (Colprensa), Jeremy McDermott (Insight Crime), Carlos Brand (RCN Radio), David Trujillo (Radio Ambulante), Andrea Aldana (Universo Centro), Dora Montero (Noticias RCN), Hugo Mario Cárdenas (El País), Sebastián Narváez (Cerosetenta), Santiago de Narváez (Pacifista!), Gabriel Rojas (Cerosetenta), Santiago Mesa (Q’hubo Medellín), Andrea Pallares (Caracol Radio), Karim Ganem Maloof (Magazine El Malpensante) and Isabella Mejía (El Uniandino).
Among the collective works, those of the media W Radio (Julio Sánchez Cristo, Camila Sarmiento and Juan Cardozo), El Colombiano (Javier Macías and Ricardo Monsalve), Cerosetenta and La Liga contra el Silencio (Lorenzo Morales, Natalia Arenas, María Fitzgerald and Tomás Uprimny), The informants from Canal Caracol (Ángela Zambrano and Ana Torres), Radio Ambulante (David Trujillo and Mariana Palau), El Espectador (Óscar Güesguán, Juan Hernández, María Monsalve, William Ariza and Johann González), RCN News (Ricardo Henao, Juan Jaramillo, Mauricio Martínez and Alexánder Garzón), Semana Magazine (María Jimena Duzán, Eduardo Contreras, Tatiana Jaramillo, Tatiana Pérez, Mauricio Calderón, Doralys Cortés, Edwin Sanabria, Felipe Reyes, Daniel Ramírez, Cristina Castro, Alejandro Cepeda ) and Unisabana Medios / El Espectador (Shara García, Bryan Pérez and Alejandro Ballestas).
