Isabel Valdés of El País, Raquel Martín of RTVE Audio and Eva Villegas of Canal Sur win the 8th "Fundación Aliados" Awards for Journalism against Gender Violence
The journalists Isabel Valdés, gender correspondent for El País, Raquel Martín Alonso, head of Podcasting for RTVE Audio, and Eva Villegas, director of the programme "Los Reporteros" for Canal Sur Televisión, have won the 8th "Fundación Aliados" Awards for Journalism against Gender Violence. A total of 107 works published in the Spanish media have participated in this new edition of the competition, which aims to recognise and reward the good practices of professionals who contribute to the defence and dissemination of values against this social scourge.
In the WRITTEN MEDIA category, the jury decided to award the prize to the journalist Isabel Valdés for her work "Ahora sé que aquello no fue un sí", published in the newspaper El País. The text focuses on the testimony of seven women who narrate one of those moments that countless women now know should not have happened. The article also offers the analysis of three specialists on the mechanisms in which this sexual violence operates, which, wrapped by centuries of patriarchal education, is still difficult to identify.
In the RADIO/PODCAST category, the prize went to Raquel Martín Alonso, head of Podcast at RTVE Audio, for "Somos Insumisas", a narrative podcast on chemical submission as a means of sexual aggression. The series consists of four chapters and includes testimonies of victims and experts who provide the reality of the data to make this form of violence, which in 93.5% of cases is exercised against women, more visible. These testimonies can help other women and should make us think about what we are doing wrong as a society.
Finally, in the TELEVISION category, the award went to Eva Villegas, director of the programme "Los Reporteros" on Canal Sur Televisión, for the report "Prohibido olvidar", which brings back the memory 25 years after a macho murder that shocked this country. Thirteen days earlier, the victim of that crime, Ana Orantes, gave a live and open account, on a Canal Sur set, of forty years of mistreatment. No one imagined that her testimony would be the chronicle of a death foretold. The case of Ana Orantes, burned alive by her ex-husband after that interview, changed the way of understanding gender violence in Spain: it provoked an unprecedented social change that led to the unanimous approval of the Integral Law against Gender Violence.
Prize-giving and jury members
The three categories are endowed with a cash prize of 3,000 euros and a trophy. The awards ceremony will take place on 22 November, at 12.00 noon, at the headquarters of the Press Association of Madrid.
The jury of the 8th Journalism Awards Against Gender Violence is made up of Almudena Fontecha, president of the Executive Committee of Fundación Aliados por la Integración, Miguel Ángel Noceda, president of the Federation of Spanish Journalists' Associations (FAPE), Alfonso Nasarre, director of Onda Madrid, Pilar Álvarez, head of Última Hora in El País, Óscar Vázquez, deputy director of Antena3 Noticias, Raquel Benito, editor-in-chief of El Confidencial, Alfonso Rodríguez, director of Colpisa, Myriam Noblejas, journalist, and Javier Fernández Arribas, director of Atalayar and contributor to various media.