Gabriel García Márquez Journalism Award announces the "40 best works of Ibero-America"

• By Alessandra Monnerat
• September 7, 2017

The jury for the Gabriel García Márquez (GGM) Journalism Awards announced the “40 best journalistic works of Ibero-America” on Sept. 7 as part of the contests fifth year. There were 1,383 entries in the categories Text, Image, Coverage and Innovation.

The participants went through three stages of evaluation: two initial rounds, with selection made by 27 judges, and a final round in which 12 judges in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia choose the finalists and winners.

Among those selected are journalists and newsroom teams from 13 Ibero-American countries. From this group, the three finalists of each category will be announced in the next few days. Each of the 12 chosen will receive 6 million Colombian pesos (about US $2,000) and participate in the Marathon of the Best Stories of Ibero-America at the Gabo Festival.

The four winners will be announced at a festival ceremony on Sept. 29, at the Botanic Garden of Medellín. They will also receive 33 million Colombian pesos (about US $11,000).

In July, FNPI announced that Mexican-American journalist Jorge Ramos was the winner of the 2017 Recognition of Excellence as part of the GGM Journalism Award. Ramos is the main anchor of the U.S. Spanish-language news network Univision.

The Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for New Iberian-American Journalism (FNPI) created the awards and the festival of the same name in 2013. Inspired by the ideals of the Colombian journalist and writer, the objective of the award is "to encourage the pursuit of excellence, innovation, rigor in the treatment of facts and ethical coherence in journalism," according to the website.

View the complete list of 40 recognized works, here:

Text

•  Los nuevos piratas del Caribe (The new pirates of the Caribbean), by Alberto Arce Suárez and Rodrigo Abd, of El Mundo (Spain)
• Alberto Camps y Rosa María Pargas: una historia de amor (Alberto Camps and Rosa María Pargas: a love story), by Ariana Budasoff, of Cosecha Roja (Argentina)
• Todo y Nada (All and Nothing), by Claudia Acuña, of Revista Mu (Argentina)
• A onda (The wave), by Consuelo Dieguez, of Piauí (Brazil)
• Rivera Maya: sin derecho a la ciudad (Rivera Maya: without right to the city), by Guillermo Osorno, Carlos Acuña and Salvador Medina, of Horizontal.mx (Mexico)
• El río que no se deja llevar por la corriente (The river that is not carried away by the current), by Jack Lo, of Mongabay Latam (Peru)
• Historia de un paria (History of a pariah), by Jorge Carrasco, of El Estornudo (Cuba)
• Yo vi fútbol en Mauthausen y Yo jugué en la Liga de Gueto (I saw football in Mauthausen and I played in the Liga de Gueto), by José I. Pérez, of Marca (Spain)
• Paulina busca a su hija (Paulina searches for her daughter), by Juan Miguel Álvarez, of El Malpensante (Colombia)
• Los desaparecidos del Paraná (The disappeared of Paraná), by Sebastián Ortega, of Anfibia (Argentina)

Image

•  Cómo crecen los bebés brasileños afectados por el Zika: la vida de Sophia, Alicia y Daniel (How Brazilian babies affected by Zika grow: the life of Sophia, Alicia and Daniel), by Adriana Zehbrauskas, of The New York Times en español (U.S.)
• Entre Os Homens de Bem (Among the Good Men), by Caio Cavechini, Carlos Juliano Barros, Mauricio Monteiro Filho and Caue Angeli Ramos, of Cine /Canal Brasil (Brazil)
• Buscadores en un país de desaparecidos (Searchers in a country of the disappeared), by Consuelo Morales Pagaza, Prometeo Lucero, Daniela Pastrana, Ximena Nátera, Marcos Vizcarra, Iván Medina, Félix Márquez, José Ignacio de Alba, Fernando Santillán, Victoria Helena, Monica González, Daniela Rea, Erika Lozano, Lucía Vergara, Rafael Pineda (Rapé) and Adriana Tienda, of Pie de Página (Mexico)
• Haitianos en Ecuador: el éxodo de un país (Haitians in Ecuador: the exodus of a country), by Eduardo Sánchez de León, Edu León, and Diego Cazar, of Revista Late (Ecuador)
• Meses Interinos (Interim Months), by Eliza Capai, of Canal Futura (Brazil)
• Tras 52 años de guerra: ¿qué sigue para Colombia? (After 52 years of war: What's next for Colombia?), by Federico Ríos, of The New York Times en español (U.S.)
• Una canción de amor y separación en la frontera de México con Estados Unidos (A song of love and separation in the Mexico-U.S. border), by Griselda San Martín of The New York Times en español (Mexico)
• Buscando refugio para mis hijos (Seeking refuge for my children), by Javier Bauluz, of Univision (U.S.)
• Los infiernos de la mujer Awajun (The hells of the Awajun woman), by Leslie Searles and Nelly Luna, of Ojo Público (Peru)
• Los Ofendidos (The Offended), by Marcela Zamora, of El Faro (El Salvador)

Coverage

• V, las cloacas del Estado (V, the sewers of the State), by Álvaro de Cózar, Toni Garrido and Yago Mendivil, of Cadena Ser (Spain)
• Profissão Madeireiro, by Ana Aranha, André Campos, Tania Caliari, Lunaé Parracho, Thais Lazeri, Alex Duvidovich, João Diaz e Marcia Leite, of Repórter Brasil (Brazil)
• Patrimonio S.A., by Aramis Castro, Milagros Salazar Herrera, Melissa Chávez Saldaña, Gonzalo Torrico Alvarado, Alicia Tovar Tirado, Andy Livise, of Convoca (Peru)
• La coca y la paz (Coca and peace), by Ginna Morelo, Rafael Quintero, Claudia Báez, Esteban Ponce, Simón Sánchez, Juan Ríos, Hernando Báquez, Iván Verano, of El Tiempo (Colombia)
• Todo lo que necesita saber del Acuerdo con las Farc (All you need to know about the aggreement with the Farc), by Juan Esteban Lewin Pinzón, Jorge Morelo, Juanita Vélez, of La Silla Vacía (Colombia)
• Especial Amazônia em disputa (Special: Amazonia in dispute), by Marina Amaral, Thiago Domenici, Ciro Barros, Luri Barcelos, Lucas Ferraz, José Cícero da Silva, Tomás Chiaverini, Ana Mendes, Rai Reis, Caco Bressane and Caetano Patta, of Agência Pública (Brazil)
• Cómo agentes del Estado participaron en la quema de 41 niñas (How agents of the State participated in the burning of 41 girls), by Martín Rodríguez Pellecer, Jody García, Gladys Olmstead, Gabriel Woltke, Carlos Sebastián, Pía Flores, Claudia Méndez Arriaza, Asier Vera, Cindy Barascout, Javier Estrada Tobar, of Nómada.gt (Guatemala)
•  Dudosa filantropía desde la Asamblea (Dubious philanthropy from the Assembly), by Mary Triny Zea Cornejo, of Diario La Prensa (Panama)
• El mapa de la muerte: 15 años de homicidios en Cali (The map of the dead: 15 years of murder in Cali), by Ossiel Villada, Ana María Saavedra, Hugo Mario Cárdenas, Germán González, Lina Uribe, of El País de Cali (Colombia)
• Las empresas fantasma de Veracruz (The ghost companies of Veracruz), by Yosune Chamizo Alberro, Daniel Moreno, Arturo Ángel, Víctor Hugo Arteaga, Ómar Sánchez de Tagle, Mael Vallejo, Omar Bobadilla, of Animal Político (Mexico)

Innovation

• Detrás del paraíso (Behind paradise), by Angelo Attanasio and Ruido Photo, of Eldiario.es (Spain)
• Tuitaço do impeachment de Dilma Rousseff na Câmara dos Deputados (Tweeting the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in the Chamber of Deputies), by Cristina Tardáguila Ferreira, Juliana Dal Piva, Pauline Mendel, Raphael Kapa, of Agência Lupa (Brazil)
• 10 años de guerra contra el narco. Cómo hemos cambiado (10 years of war against the narco. How have we changed?), by Daniel Moreno, Paris Martínez, Francisco Sandoval, Yosune Chamizo, Omar Bobadilla, José Merino, Víctor Sahagún, Óscar Elton, from Animal Político (Mexico)
• Politibot, by Eduardo Suárez, Juan Font, Martín González, María Ramírez, Migual Gil Biraud, Kiko Llaneras, Jorge Galindo, David Martín-Corral, of Politibot (Spain)
• Dos años de análisis de las escuchas de Nisman (Two years of analysis of the recordings of Nisman), of La Nación Data: Florencia Coelho, Angélica Peralta Ramos, Ricardo Brom, Gabriela Bouret, Cristian Bertelegni, Pablo Loscri, Gastón de la Llana, Nicolás Rivera, Bianca Pallaro, Gabriela Miño, Florencia Fernández Blanco, Carolina Ávila, Hernán Capieio and volunteers. Editor in charge: Gastón Roitberg. La Nación (Argentina)
• El hábito de la mordaza, by Germán Andino, of El País (Mexico)
• Minas, el enemigo oculto (Mines, the hidden enemy) by Laura Campos Encinales, Alejandro Santos, José Ángel Báez, Carolina Gutiérrez, Andrés Felipe Osorio, Edwin Sanabria, Diego Llorente, Andrés Barajas, David Amado Pintor, of Semana.com (Colombia)
• Agua bendita (Blessed water), by María Cristina Castro Pinzón, Javier Mancera, Ruby Marcela Pérez, Cristina Castro, María Fernanda Lezaca de Paz, Fabián Cristancho, Viviana Gómez Echeverry, María Paula Castro, Lina María Álvarez Padilla, of Semana.com (Colombia)
• 100, by Natalia Viana, Jessica Mota, Olga Lucía Lozano,Babak Fakhamzadeh, Lorena Parra, Giulia Afiune, Mariana Simões, Lara Norgaard, Beth McLoughlin, Monica Mourão and students of ESPM, Bruno Fomseca, by Agência Pública (Brazil)
• Vacaciones en aguas de nadie (Vacations in no man's water), by Ronny Rojas, Almudena Toral, Damià S. Bonmatí, Maye Primera, Patricia Clarembaux, Alejandra Vargas, of Univision Noticias (U.S.)

Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.