Antena 3, RTPA, La Marea and El Cañonazo - The Facto win the VI Journalism Awards against Gender Violence Fundación Aliados
Antena 3 Televisión, Radio Televisión Pública de Asturias (RTPA), La Marea and El Cañonazo - The Facto have won the 6th Journalism Awards against Gender Violence organised by the Aliados por la Integración Foundation. More than 120 works, submitted by journalists from media outlets all over the country, have been presented to the sixth edition of a contest that aims to recognise and reward good journalistic practices that have best contributed to the defence and dissemination of values against this social scourge.
Thus, in the TELEVISION category, the jury decided to award the prize - for the first time ex aequo - to the works 'Gender violence. The other pandemic', by Antena 3 Televisión, and 'Ciberviolencia machista', by RTPA. The first, directed by Óscar Vázquez and hosted by journalist Esther Vaquero, gathers testimonies of victims and specialists involved, analysing the reality of this drama in a year in which the confinement due to the coronavirus has aggravated the situation. The second, presented by the journalists Patricia Rodríguez and Paula Bango, deals with the creation of a new form of gender violence, brought about by the massive use of new technologies: cyber-violence. The documentary, valued for its extraordinary educational and didactic nature, stresses that figures such as cyber-bullying, sexting or revenge pornography are a growing problem in today's information and knowledge society.
In the RADIO/PODCAST category, the award went to 'En la jaula de oro', a podcast exclusively for Podimo produced by El Cañonazo and The Facto and created by Tomás Ocaña and David Ávila, with a script by Lula Gómez. It is a sound docufiction that breaks away from the traditional patterns of battered women and makes visible the macho violence in the upper class, the silences and guilt that are difficult to assimilate. A story based on the techniques of investigative journalism, based on a recent case of corruption in Spain involving high-ranking government officials, which shows the story in a truthful and real way. The jury judged it to be the best work presented in its category "for its journalistic and documentary quality and for its originality, in a format that is here to stay".
Finally, in the category of WRITTEN MEDIA, the prize went to the work entitled 'Antonia', by journalist Olivia Carballar, published in the magazine La Marea. The jury valued the "extraordinary strength and documentary content" of this extensive report on the story of Antonia, a woman who was looking forward to meeting her grandson but was unable to do so because she was murdered by her husband in Cúllar Baza (Granada) on 4 September 2014. After an argument, the assailant shot her with a shotgun outside their home. She was 65 and he was 59. What happened next, what happened to the family, and to the murderer? That is what is explained in detail in this work, which is part of 'PorTodas', a journalistic series promoted by La Marea and which tries to document sexist crimes years after the events. In this case, seven years have passed, which has made it possible to detect how violence affects older women, how the judicial system sometimes prolongs the pain of families and how certain mitigating factors, such as reparation of damages, are complicated to explain and understand in cases where a life is taken.
The three categories are endowed with a cash prize of 3,000 euros and an exclusive work by the Valladolid sculptor Concha Gay entitled 'Tree of Light'. The prize-giving ceremony will take place on 23 November at the Madrid Press Association.
Members of the jury
The jury of the VI Edition of the Journalism Awards Against Gender Violence is made up of Almudena Fontecha, president of Fundación Aliados por la Integración, Nemesio Rodríguez, president of the Federation of Associations of Journalists of Spain (FAPE), Montserrat Lluis, general director of Grupo COPE, Pilar Álvarez, Gender correspondent of 'El País', Óscar Vázquez, deputy director of Antena3 Noticias, Raquel Benito, editor-in-chief of El Confidencial, Alfonso Rodríguez, director of Colpisa, Myriam Noblejas, of the Fundación Biodiversidad, and Javier Fernández Arribas, director of Atalayar and collaborator with Onda Madrid and Vocento, acting as secretary Eduardo Rodríguez, director of Communications of Fundación Aliados.