MADRID THE UNIVERSAL shared yesterday the international journalism award King of Spain for his participation in the ‘Press Club’ program broadcast every week from its pages online.
In a ceremony led by King Philip IV of Spain, the program director Juan Carlos Iragorri was in charge of receiving the award on behalf of the group of five journalists who were awarded, including the correspondent of THE UNIVERSAL in Washington, J. Jaime Hernandez.
During the event, King Philip IV of Spain stressed the importance of awards that have been lavished on those media that have decided not to miss the train of new technologies, innovative up to the new challenges proposed to transmit information.
“The constant adaptation of journalism to new technologies and new narrative styles are of great significance,” said the Spanish monarch, referring to the challenge of continuous change of scenery in the field of technology.
At the ceremony, held at the Casa del Lector of the capital, attended by a large group of guests, is also alluded to the role of the media in defense of democracy and freedom of expression at a time when the industry journalism faces a difficult challenge to adapt to new technologies.
During the delivery of the King of Spain awards was a section dedicated to Don Quixote Journalism Prize to Peruvian novelist and essayist Fernando Iwasaki, for an essay on the situation of the Spanish language and its future under the title “La Mancha Extraterritorial” published in the journal El Mercurio , Chile.
The jury of the King of Spain prize distinguished the ‘Press Club’ broadcast on November 22, 2013 directed by Colombian journalist Juan Carlos Iragorri.
The jury also awarded J. Jaime Hernandez correspondent THE UNIVERSAL in Washington; and Antonio Cano, director of El País ; Muni Jensen, analyst ‘Press Club’ and Silvia Pisani correspondent The Nation , Buenos Aires.
In its ruling the judges highlighted the concept of the program and the fact that Washington is transmitted from a Latin American vision.
“This is a recognition of a program that is very new, because it brings in the US capital to the best Spanish-speaking correspondents, including some journalists as the director of The Washington Post , which have the effort to learn Spanish, “said Juan Carlos Iragorri, the program director to hold a share award and promoted THE UNIVERSAL from birth.
The “Press Club” program is a project born in the NTN24 hand chain of Juan Carlos Iragorri and, since its inception, with the collaboration of a group of journalists and media who joined talents.
Including THE UNIVERSAL that decided to bet on the team ‘Press Club’ from the beginning of his career to give life to a program of analysis and political debate that discusses the most relevant issues of the US general and far-reaching issues and situation in different parts of the world.
For their debates have passed a significant number of government officials from the US, Mexico, Colombia and personalities from the world of academia and literature and a large group of defenders of human rights in the hemisphere.
Daily THE UNIVERSAL has been with El País of Madrid one of the main allies of Press Club Plus broadcast and content.
The program has ventured into the programs of analysis and debate in Spanish from Washington and transmitted signal directly and through the websites of these media, is unprecedented as a model of communication that appeals to different audiences in the American Union, the Latin American continent and Spain. Editorial
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