Mexico City, February 14, 2023 - Journalistic work implies social responsibility and commitment to the verification and rigor of information. For this reason, the Universidad Panamericana seeks to promote this career within the School of CommunicationThe School of Communication, through the Journalism Award, which is held every year and on this occasion celebrated its fourth edition with new categories.
The presentation of awards and recognitions of this contest took place in the auditorium of our house of studies and was celebrated with Mtro. Juan Carlos Carrillo Cal y Mayor, director of the Bachelor's Degree in Communication; Dr. José Luis López Aguirre, coordinator of the Committee of the First Panamericana Journalism Award; Dr. María de Lourdes López Gutiérrez, academic secretary of the School of Communication; and Dr . Karen Marely Rodríguez, director of the School of Journalism. Karen Marely RodríguezCommunication student, winner of the chronicle category of the III edition of the Journalism Award.
The role of journalism
To welcome the event, Mr. Carrillo addressed those present and reflected on the importance of journalism: "journalism is at the heart of communication for its social value and its ability to transform society, that is what we try to do from communication".
Dr. López Aguirre also said: "We have gathered here today to revaluate the role of journalism (...), and here we place special emphasis on highlighting the skills we have acquired through knowledge and the exercise of informative work".
"In our times, we need truthful, accurate, attractive, supported, balanced, useful, verified, contextualized information that pursues the common good, the improvement of society, to resonate and go viral," he concluded.
Stories worth telling
Before the awards ceremony began, Karen Marely, winner of the previous edition of the Journalism Award for her story about a peddler of scratching hands, told the audience: "When I won I was happy because I realized that the world already knew who Santiago was, and that the world knows who you are and where you stand in it, it is worth it".
Karen admitted to her classmates that when she entered the Communications program she never thought that journalism was for her: "(...) I saw it as very far away from me. I knew I liked writing, but I didn't know what for. When I talked to Santiago I realized that I was writing because our stories deserve to be told".
Winners of the IV Journalism Award
- Semblance interview
Winner: Joshua Sigler with Barbara Enriquez and the Art of Creating Worlds
Honorable Mention: Monika Revilla and Viviana Aguilar García de León with Every time I see something that moves me, I say: I wish I could do this for someone else.
- Chronicle
Winner: Fernanda Conde with Alive and unafraid
Honorable Mention: Saúl Iván Ramírez with Politécnico advances to semifinals / Águilas Blancas defeats Pumas CU in overtime in quarterfinals
- Multimedia Report
Winners: Karen Marely Rodríguez, Karla Yunuén, Trinidad León, Natalia Guillén and Alfredo Ortiz with From the grave to the black market: trafficking of bones
Honorable Mention: Ana Paula Pineda, Andrés Dávila, Miguel Ángel Luna, Jorge Antonio Argueta and Mario Bonvehi, with The curse of the fourth game
- Report for a printed media
Winner: Juan Pablo Valenzuela with Digital tourism, home office and gentrification in the CDMX: La Condesa
- Audiovisual news report or program
Winners: Sebastián Silva, Vania de la Torre and Ximena Reyes for Walking with Zombies
Honorable Mention: Isabel Fernández, Ofmara Rangel, Luna Rangel, Jaime Straufert, Henri Bertin, Octavio Cortés y Ximena Rojas for Apps for earthquakes
- News podcast
Winners: Uriel Galicia, Aldo Muñoz, Catherine Pérez y Ana Karen Ramos Building 10
Honorable Mention: Alexa Arévalo, Octavio Cupil, Valeria Avit and Ofmara Rangel for Animation Experiment
- Innovation for storytelling
Winners: Paola Chirino, Gloria Lagunas Melchor Melchor Rodrigo Arévalo, Regina Gutiérrez and Martha Gutiérrez for Are you going?
Honorable Mention: Ofmara Rangel for Curtain Cinema
Winners in the audiovisual experience category: María Fernanda Tungüí, Sandra Enríquez, Jorge Velasco and Javier Mendoza for Zombie March
The Panamericana School of Communication seeks to improve society through the evolution of information with an ethical and transcendent sense.
