The SER series on historical memory wins the King of Spain Award | Society

The series of reports of Cadena SER Buried lives, that is broadcast in space To live that is two days, has been awarded the King of Spain prize in the radio category. Realized by Conchi Cejudo, Javier del Pino and Gervasio Sánchez, this work rescues stories of oblivion: the life and death of hundreds of people who were victimized and reprimanded during the Civil War (1936-1939) and the subsequent Franco dictatorship (1939-1977) , with the testimonies of the relatives and the voices of historians, archaeologists and forensic experts. The jury has valued the sensitivity in the realization, the historical value of the testimonies and the faithful reflection of rural Spain, as well as an "outstanding" sound antenna.

The XV Don Quixote Prize, which recognizes who best contributes to the dissemination and knowledge of the Castilian language, has been for Francisco Moreno for the article The linguistic repression of Spanish in the United States, published by the Spanish edition of The New York Times.

Convened by the news agency Efe and the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID), an agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, these awards have recognized in this edition information on political and social crises, corruption and environmental protection. The winners are Spanish and Latin American journalists and media.

The Nicaraguan Wilfredo Ernesto Miranda Aburto He has been honored with the Ibero-American Journalism Award for an investigative article on the repression of protests against the Government of Nicaragua, which caused hundreds of deaths last year. The information, disseminated in Confidential, He documented the use of snipers and weapons of war in various events.

The Argentines Diego Cabot, Candela Ini and Santiago Nasra, from the newspaper The nation, won the Press Award for the article The notebooks of the bribes, about corruption in the previous Justicialist government of the country. The Bolivian team led by Roberto Navia received the Special Ibero-American Award for Environmental and Sustainable Journalism for a multimedia work reporting the illegal and indiscriminate hunting of jaguars in Bolivia, and published in the newspaper Duty Y Monogabay Latam.

In the television category, the prize went to the Brazilian Marcelo Magalhaes, for a program about pirates in the Amazon, broadcast by Record TV. The prize for digital journalism was for a series of reports published by Univisión Noticias and The lighthouse From El Salvador on migrations caused by violence in the Northern Triangle of Central America.

The Photography Prize went to the Portuguese Nuno Andrés Ferreira, from the Lusa agency, for an image of the president of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, while consoling an old man during a visit to the towns in the center of that country that were severely affected by the forest fires of 2017.

Further, the veteran television newscaster from Mexico Joaquín López-Dóriga, born in Spain, received a special honorable mention for his long career.

The Brazilian news agency Amazonia Real, a non-profit initiative focused on indigenous peoples and environmental protection, was honored with the Outstanding Media of Ibero-America Award.

The jury of the awards, sponsored by the Suez Group, was headed by the president of Efe, Fernando Garea, and the director of the AECID, Ana Calvo.