Atlas Network and the Cátedra Vargas Llosa are pleased to announce the call for entries for the third installment of the Young Journalism Award, a joint initiative that was inaugurated in 2021 and will celebrate its third edition in 2023.
The project aims to recognize and promote the values of liberty in Ibero-American journalism. It is endowed with US$10,000 and is aimed at fostering excellence, journalistic rigor, ethical consistency, and the defense of freedom in the practice of journalism.
IThe year of its inauguration, Álvaro Vargas Llosa highlighted the importance of this project: “We want journalism, in its different manifestations, to be valued as a cultural category; and this award serves to stimulate young journalists to carry out this task without any reservations compared to other genres in the world of culture.”
The first edition was won by Cuban journalist Carla Gloria Colomé for a report published in the digital media El Estornudo, entitled: “El 11 de julio en San Antonio de los Baños: Lo que se ve / lo que no se ve,” where she chronicles the beginning of the youth protests that took Cuba by storm at the time. The second edition was awarded went to Mexican journalist Víctor Núñez Jaime, for "El segundo exilio de Sergio Ramírez,” a profile of the second exile under the Ortega dictatorship of Nicaraguan writer and politician (and a Cervantes Prize winner in 2018), which was published in Milenio.
For more information on the award convened by Atlas Network and the Cátedra Vargas Llosa please consult https://www.catedravargasllosa....
The new entries can be uploaded starting on June 9, 2023, and will close on Friday, October 13, 2023.
The winner of the Young Journalism Prize 2023 will be announced at the end of November at the annual meeting of the Fundación Internacional para la Libertad annual meetings of its Advisory Council in Miami. The winner will be also invited (all expenses paid) to participate in a cornerstone talk on the chosen topic at the annual conference of Atlas Network’s Latin American Liberty Forum, to be held in the latter part of March 2024 in San José, Costa Rica.