{"id":487339,"date":"2025-10-18T21:27:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T01:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/the-sip-honors-defenders-of-democracy-with-the-2025-awards-for-journalistic-excellence\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T21:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T01:31:13","slug":"the-sip-honors-defenders-of-democracy-with-the-2025-awards-for-journalistic-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/the-sip-honors-defenders-of-democracy-with-the-2025-awards-for-journalistic-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"The SIP honors “defenders of democracy” with the 2025 Awards for Journalistic Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Punta Cana<\/strong>.- The Inter American Press Association (IAPA<\/a>) presented tonight the 2025 Awards for Journalistic Excellence, in 12 categories, along with 24 honorable mentions, which highlight the diversity and rigor of the best journalism in the Americas and Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n“In times when lies creep into political discourse, when authoritarian governments, both left and right, try to silence criticism, when misinformation spreads like a virus, these journalists present here continue to be the first line of defense of our democracies,” valued Mar\u00eda Lorente, president of the SIP Awards Commission and regional director for Latin America of the Agence France-Presse (AFP<\/a>), at the opening of this ceremony that concluded the third day of the 81st General Assembly of the SIP held in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.\n\nPrior to these awards in the competition, the CEO of Teletica of Costa Rica, Ren\u00e9 Picado Cozza (Executive of the Year Award), and the editorial director of La Voz del Interior, Carlos Hugo Jornet (Presidential Award), were honored with special awards for their commitment and credibility and as an inspiring example of service.\n\n\n

Before presenting the recognition, the president of the Inter American Press Association, Jos\u00e9 Roberto Dutriz Fogelbach, stated that “during some years of his management of the Commission on Freedom of the Press and Information, Carlos Jornet consolidated the role of the IAPA as the most influential and respected voice in the defense of freedom of expression in the continent”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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List of award winners:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nJOURNALISM AWARD ON MIGRATION “CLAUDIO PAOLILLO”, sponsored by La Silla Rota, Mexico
Winner\n\n\n


\u201cTricked into Sex Slavery: Global Crackdown hasn\u2019t Stopped Caribbean Traffickers\u201d \u2013 Natanga Smith, Valerie Fris, Roseann Pile, Soyini Grey, Marion Ali and Freeman Rogers, Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network (Trinidad). For presenting, based on the case of a young Cuban migrant, a shocking and well-founded investigative report denouncing the tragedy of human trafficking in the Caribbean.
First honorable mention.<\/p>\n\n\n“Ecuador, a country built by its migrants” \u2013 Leonardo G\u00f3mez Ponce, Juan Diego Montenegro, Nicol\u00e1s Palau, Unidad de Investigaci\u00f3n Tierra de Nadie (Ecuador).\n\n\n


Second honorable mention
“The Coyote’s Route” \u2013 Alberto Pradilla Mar, Carlos Caraba\u00f1a Ruiz del \u00c1rbol, Paul Ram\u00edrez, Marcos Garc\u00eda, Cecilia Guadarrama, Erick Liz\u00e1rraga, Rub\u00e9n Mondrag\u00f3n, Andrea Salinas, Luis Villegas, I\u00f1igo Arredondo Vera and Omar S\u00e1nchez de Tagle, N+Focus (Mexico).
CARICATURE AND ILLUSTRATION AWARD, sponsored by El Tiempo, Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Winner
\u201cInaugural Speech\u201d [Trump] \u2013 Ra\u00fal Zuleta, El Espectador (Colombia). For illustrating, in a synthetic way and with excellent mastery of drawing, composition and color, the danger of the vehement speech of the American president.
First honorable mention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


“O Cerrado e a incrivel jornada das aguas” \u2013 Leticia Klein, Luiz Iria, Miguel Vilela Arte, Ronaldo Ribeiro, Sofia Beiras, Rodolfo Almeida, Lucas Alves, Thiago Medaglia, Ambiental Media(Brasil).<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Second honorable mention
\u201cJavier Milei\u201d \u2013 Juan Colombato, La Naci\u00f3n(Argentina).
NEWS COVERAGE OF CURRENT AFFAIRS AWARD, sponsored by Infobae<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Winner
\u201cInteroceanic Corridor: a story of imposition, dispossession and violence\u201d \u2013 Diego Prado Alonso, Valente Rosas Pacheco, Omar T. Bobadilla, Irving Morales Agiss, Silber Meza, Antonio Mundaca, Alejandra Mabel Crail P\u00e9rez, El Universal (Mexico). For questioning, through a multiplatform coverage, variety of sources, resources and journalistic techniques, the construction project in Mexico of an Interoceanic Corridor, highlighting the environmental and human impacts and the rejection response of the communities.
First honorable mention<\/p>\n\n\n“The wounded, blind, and dead of the social outbreak in Panama” \u2013 Jos\u00e9 Arcia, Sol Laur\u00eda, Aris Rodr\u00edguez Mariota, Solangel Robinson, Orgun Wagua, Concol\u00f3n Magazine (Panama).\n\n\n


Second honorable mention
\u201cNobody is looking for my son\u201d \u2013 Javier Drovetto, Paula Soler, Jazm\u00edn Lell, Jos\u00e9 E Bord\u00f3n, Giselle Ferro, Julieta Izzo, Lorena Uribe, Marcelo Manera, Carolina Niklison, Hern\u00e1n Zenteno, La Naci\u00f3n(Argentina).<\/p>\n\n\n\n


“ALEJANDRO MIR\u00d3 QUESADA GARLAND” INTERVIEW AWARD, sponsored by El Comercio, Peru
Winner
“Pepe Mujica: At 20, love is a bonfire. At 80, a sweet habit to shoot at loneliness” \u2013 Hugo Alconada Mon, La Naci\u00f3n (Argentina). For presenting, through an intimate dialogue, knowledge of the character and his sociopolitical context, the close and earthly image of a popular political figure in Latin America.<\/p>\n\n\n
First honorable mention
“Jens Balzer. Cultural appropriation, art and politics: Taylor Swift couldn’t prevent Trump from returning to the White House” \u2013 Marcial H\u00e9ctor Pav\u00f3n \u2013 \u00d1\/Clar\u00edn (Argentina).\n\n\n


Second honorable mention
\u201cMar\u00eda Teresa Arizabaleta: interview with the last suffragist, the woman who achieved women’s suffrage in Colombia\u201d \u2013 Diego Leon Giraldo, El Tiempo (Colombia).<\/p>\n\n\n\n


PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD, sponsored by La Prensa Gr\u00e1fica, El Salvador
Winner
“Athlete’s body” \u2013 Paulo Miranda Favero, Beatriz Cesarini, Marcelo Maragni, Bruna Sanches, UOL (Brazil). For exposing, with images that are surprising for their beauty, accompanied by personal stories, how the practice of sport sculpts, according to the specificity of each modality, the body of athletes.
First honorable mention
“Emerald leftovers: the dream of poor miners in Colombia” \u2013 Luis Crist\u00f3bal Acosta, AFP (Colombia).
Second honorable mention
“Ancestral Firefighters” \u2013 Marcelo Camargo, Agencia Brasil (Brazil).
CHRONICLE AWARD, sponsored by Debate Media, Mexico
Winner
“Death in San Mart\u00edn square” \u2013 Juan Aurelio Ar\u00e9valo Mir\u00f3 Quesada, El Comercio (Peru). For reconstructing, using a profusion of data and irrefutable sources, and through a cadenced, immersive and literary prose, a historical crime from almost a century ago in Peru.
First honorable mention
“I went, saw and wrote: the long night train journey to Kiev and the family for a night that destiny gave me” \u2013 Hinde Pomeraniec, Infobae (Argentina).
Second honorable mention
“Tears, pain and all the intimacy of the return of the relatives of those fallen in the Malvinas war to the Darwin cemetery” \u2013 Pablo Javier Blanco, Clar\u00edn (Argentina).
VIDEO AWARD, sponsored by Fundaci\u00f3n Carlos Freire, Riobamba, Ecuador
Winner
“The Taliban yoke that suffocates women in the name of Allah” \u2013 Carolina Mundi, Luis Almod\u00f3var, El Pa\u00eds (Spain). For denouncing, through devastating images and testimonies, the crushing of the rights of women and, in general, of the Afghan population, by the Taliban regime.
First honorable mention
“State of Fear” \u2013 Jafet Tirado, Jos\u00e9 Eduardo Mart\u00ednez, David Rodr\u00edguez Medina, Luis Antonio Garc\u00eda, Thais Morales Garc\u00eda, Guillermo Blanco, Gemma Cuartielles, N+Media (Mexico).
Second honorable mention
“Malvinas is not archived” \u2013 Yair Cybel, Bel\u00e9n del Huerto Romero, Israel Olmedo Ivaldi, Sebasti\u00e1n Mat\u00edas Furlong, El Grito del Sur (Argentina).
OPINION AWARD, sponsored by El Mercurio, Chile
Winner
“Venezuela against fear” \u2013 Luz Mely Reyes, Efecto Cocuyo (Venezuela) for El Pa\u00eds (Spain). For describing the atmosphere of terror in Venezuela, relying, in addition to the journalist’s judgment, on data and testimonies from the victims, while leaving a margin of hope in the midst of immense challenges.
First honorable mention
“Death threats” \u2013 Jos\u00e9 Guarnizo, Vor\u00e1gine (Colombia).
Second honorable mention
“National Championship of Mandrills” \u2013 Alejandro Borensztein, Clar\u00edn (Argentina).
DATA AND INFOGRAPHICS JOURNALISM AWARD, sponsored by Grupo de Comunicaciones Corripio, Dominican Republic
Winner
“Projeto Escravizadores” \u2013 Amanda Audi, Ana Alice de Lima, Babak Fakhamzadeh, Bianca Muniz, Bruno Fonseca, Bruno Penteado, Catarina Bessel, Danilo Queiroz, Darlene Dalto, Ester Nascimento, Ethieny Karen, Fernanda Diniz, Leandro Aguiar, Leticia Gouveia, Lorena Morgana, Mariama Correia, Marina Dias, Matheus Pigozzi, Matheus Santino, Patr\u00edcia Junqueira, Pedro Ezequiel, Rafael Cust\u00f3dio, Rafael Oliveira, Raphaela Ribeiro, Raquel Okamura, Renata Cons, Romeu Loreto, Ag\u00eancia P\u00fablica de Jornalismo Investigativo (Brazil). For revealing, through a wide variety of investigative resources, in which genealogy, history and journalism are combined, the historical roots of slavery, which still subsist in the power structures of Brazil.
First honorable mention
“Protected areas of Chile” \u2013 Juan Pablo Bravo Zamora, El Mercurio (Chile).
Second honorable mention
“This is how Milei spoke to us” \u2013 Nicol\u00e1s Cassese, Mart\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez Yebra, Mart\u00edn Pascua, Florencia Rodr\u00edguez Altube, Gabriela Bouret, Natalia Louzau, Alejandra Bliffeld, Florencia Abd, Mar\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez Alcobendas, Pablo Loscri, Gast\u00f3n de la Llana, Natalia Sarramone, Mat\u00edas Boela, Julieta Bollini, La Naci\u00f3n (Argentina).
IN-DEPTH JOURNALISM AWARD, sponsored by La Rep\u00fablica, Peru
Winner
“Toxic Field” \u2013 Clemente \u00c1lvarez, Javier Figueroa, Andr\u00e9s Rivera, Amaya Verde, Anna Clare Spelman, Frank Barrag\u00e1n, Diego Medrano, Jessica Weiss, Adriana Loeff, Patricia Clarembaux, Esther Poveda, Federica Narancio, Ana Elena Azp\u00farua, Univision Noticias Digital (United States). For denouncing and didactically explaining, through data, testimonies, graphics and, above all, visual images, the harmful effects of exposure to pesticides for agricultural workers in the United States, conclusions that can be applied to other countries.
First honorable mention
“Farra do descontos no Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social (INSS)” \u2013 Geisiane Sousa, Viviane Novais, Lilian Tahan, Otto Valle, M\u00e1rcia Delgado, Ol\u00edvia Meireles, Fabio Leite, \u00c9rica Montenegro, Juliana Garc\u00eas, Juliana Afioni, Gui Pr\u00edmola, Gabriel Lucas, Yanka Rom\u00e3o, Daniel Ferreira, Michael Melo, Italo Ridney, Andr\u00e9 Marques, Luiz Vassallo, Saulo Marques, Metr\u00f3poles (Brazil).
Second honorable mention
“The business of the Mayor’s Office of Managua: the urban developer ‘Bismarck Mart\u00ednez'” \u2013 Juan Carlos Bow, Confidencial (Nicaragua).
JOURNALISM AWARD ON THE ENVIRONMENT “ROBERTO EISENMANN Jr.”, sponsored by La Prensa, Panama
Winner
“Our peace is out there” \u2013 Thomas Lundy, Canadian Geographic (Canada). For deploying, in a context of impressive beauty of a remote region of Canada, the challenges faced by the Inuit community, expressed in a convincing way by its members, due to environmental threats \u2014derived from mining and climate change\u2014, as well as the solutions put forward by its leaders.
First honorable mention
“Narco contamination: Cooking an environmental disaster” \u2013 Ivonne Am\u00e9rica Armenta Z\u00fa\u00f1iga, Jes\u00fas Antonio Bustamante Rivera, Luis Gerardo Maga\u00f1a, Katherine Corcoran, Quinto Elemento Lab (Mexico).
Second honorable mention
“A hidden paradise under threat” \u2013 Teresa de Miguel, Rodrigo Abd, Megan Janetsky, Caleb Diehl, Peter Hamlin, Anna Jo Bratton, Enric Marti, Carlos Dorantes, Karen Carballo, Kathy Young, Peter Prengaman, Associated Press (Mexico).
UNIVERSITY JOURNALISM AWARD, sponsored by the Latin American Council for Accreditation of Journalism and Communication (CLAEP)
Winner
“Escape in the darkness: the story of the blind parathlete who deserted during Santiago 2023” \u2013 Juan Jos\u00e9 Leyton, Francisco Gonz\u00e1lez, Jes\u00fas Mart\u00ednez, Gazi Jalil F., Vergara240, Universidad Diego Portales (Chile). For presenting, with excellent narrative and a high spiritual charge, the moving story of a parathlete, from his childhood in Cuba to his struggle to survive in another country; which was cited in the bill by which the Chamber of Deputies granted Chilean nationality to the immigrant.
First honorable mention
“Following in the footsteps of the Bronx” \u2013 Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Lobo Ar\u00e9valo, Mar\u00eda Alejandra Moreno Fl\u00f3rez, Karen Tatiana Carre\u00f1o Cely, Paula Andrea Triana Herrera, Sarah Shaiel Buitrago Castillo, Natalia Cristina Ariza Pinto, Santiago Ram\u00edrez Tolosa, Juana Guzm\u00e1n Torres, Camilo Andr\u00e9s Bustos Herrera, Esteban Rold\u00e1n, Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Beltr\u00e1n Ariza, Isaac Garz\u00f3n Rodr\u00edguez, Santiago Andr\u00e9s Ayala Fajardo, Juan Camilo Ferreira Acosta, Conexi\u00f3n Sabana 360, Universidad de la Sabana (Colombia).
Second honorable mention
“Sob o peso do sil\u00eancio” \u2013 Luiza Cristina de Oliveira Melo, Lucas Lopes, Zanei Ramos Barcellos, Campus Multiplataforma, Universidade de Bras\u00edlia (Brazil).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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