The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) announced the list of winning works for the 2024 Awards for Journalistic Excellence. It said there were 12 winners with coverage of different topics and formats from the Americas and Spain.
“The IAPA Awards Committee is impressed by the exceptional quality of the nominations received this year. We are proud of the valuable contribution of these journalists and media outlets that make a significant contribution to public knowledge, the vitality of democracy and the well-being of our societies,” said María Lorente, president of the IAPA Awards Committee and regional director for Latin America of Agence France Presse (AFP).
The award winners include journalists working in traditional media as well as in digital media, including the work of a Nicaraguan journalist arbitrarily stripped of his nationality.
One of the categories awarded for the first time in the contest is Solutions Journalism, which will be awarded to the Vanguard Seminar from Mexico.
AFP also won the Claudio Paolillo Migration Journalism Award, a new category in the IAPA awards.
The winners will receive a certificate of recognition and a cash prize of $2,000 in October.
The name of the 2024 winner of the Grand Prize for Press Freedom has yet to be revealed, as have the winners in the categories of Executive of the Year, Great Friend of the Press, Sustainability and Digital Transformation, the IAPA explained.
The hard-working winners
In Caricature and Illustration, sponsored by The WeatherOr, from Colombia, the award will be given to “Droga Plaga Zombi” by Ezequiel Omar García, Rolling Stone, Argentina, for illustrating with originality and a high aesthetic sense the current scourge of drugs—a sensitive and complex subject—inspired by the classic painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder (The Triumph of Death).
The News Coverage Award for Current Affairs, sponsored by Infobae, was won by the work: “Estradas de papel”, Editorial Staff MetropolisBrazil. For exposing, with extensive data, the disastrous use of public funds in Brazil through the public company Codevasf.
“The exhaustive three-month investigation revealed cases of embezzlement and corruption that span from the government of Jair Bolsonaro to that of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,” the report said.
In the Interview Award category, sponsored by El Comercio de Perú, the winning work was “Tragedy of the Andes,” Editorial The NationArgentina. For shedding new light on the Uruguayan rugby players’ plane crash in 1972.
A work of profound stories that “raise the eternal conflict of man in extreme situations and where questions and answers impact due to their sincerity and crudeness,” says the summary.
The Chronicle Award went to “The Babies of Darien,” by José E. Guarnizo Álvarez, MaelstromColombia. For revealing, with journalistic rigor, the tragedy of migrants, accompanied by children and babies, who cross the Darien to reach the United States.
This chronicle, of high literary flight and communicative capacity, according to the jury, shows the extreme vulnerability of the children, many of whom do not survive the journey.
The Photography and Video Award goes to an American team for the work “China: The superpower of seafood”, by The Outlaw Ocean Project and Ian Urbina. The work exposes, through a mini-documentary, the human rights violations linked to the Chinese fishing fleet and the global seafood industry.
The jury highlighted that the team worked for four years in different countries and oceans to support their impressive research.
This year’s Opinion Award went to an article published by El País of Spain on the topic “A year ago they stripped me of my Nicaraguan nationality,” by journalist Wilfredo Ernesto Miranda Aburto, “who presents with clarity and solid arguments the eloquent testimony of someone who has been illegally stripped of his nationality and condemned to exile by the government of Daniel Ortega,” as well as the consequences on the family and personal level.
And in the category of In-depth Journalism, the winning work was “What is NarcoFiles: The new criminal order? Everything you need to know”, published by Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Projectwhich describes the underworld of logistics, marketing and money laundering from organized crime.
The jury highlighted the collaborative work of the filmmakers in this investigation, as well as the “use of advanced analysis techniques, field work, data interpretation and diversity of verification sources.”
Other award-winning categories include Data Journalism, Environmental Journalism and University Journalism. The regional organization that brings together hundreds of media outlets from the continent announced that it will present the awards during the 80th IAPA General Assembly, from October 17 to 20 in Córdoba, Argentina.
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