Íñigo Domínguez and Alfonso Armada win ‘ex aequo’ the Miguel Delibes National Journalism Award | Communication and Media | EUROtoday

The journalists Íñigo Domínguez, correspondent in Rome for EL PAÍS, and Alfonso Armada are the winners of the Miguel Delibes National Journalism Award, organized by the Valladolid Press Association (APV). The jury of this XXIX version has determined to award the award, value 6,000 euros, to each communicators for his or her articles Poem of power and compassion, of Armada, within the journal Frontera D (July 30, 2025) and Damn phrases nicely stated, printed on this newspaper by Domínguez. “I feel very honored, as a reader and admirer of Miguel Delibes, who was one of the first writers I read and that I became fond of and tried to copy, with little success,” stated Domínguez after studying of the ruling, made public this Monday, whose jury highlights the “great mastery and use of language” of the winners in addressing the identical present subject “with two perspectives, two styles and two different languages.”

“It is a pride that seems strange to me to deserve,” admits Domínguez. The Miguel Delibes National Journalism Prize rewards “the good use of the Spanish language in the media”, one thing that makes the Rome correspondent of this newspaper “especially excited”: “It is something that I have always tried to do, even in a somewhat manic way, so if the jury believes that at some point I have achieved it, I am satisfied.” In Damn phrases nicely statedthe journalist factors out that ideas in politics or grownup language “are being reduced to memes.” He talks concerning the euphemisms which are used to masks the “barbarities” that find yourself framed in ideologies such because the genocide in Gaza, which was echoed within the media when the article was printed in September 2025.

With one other language, Armada in Poem of power and compassion, He additionally talks about “contemplating” the horrors of immediately’s world. And the textual content begins by evaluating the scenario of the Strip with the partitions of Troy, from the place Achilles was seen dragging Hector’s corpse together with his chariot: “Thus we contemplate / from Tel Aviv to Madrid / Yazar, two years old / who poses with his back to the photographer / Jehad Alshrafi / in a refugee camp in Gaza City / so that we can measure the protruding shoulder blades / and the vertebrae.”

In this version, works from tv and written press (printed and digital) from throughout Spain, from specialised and common media, had been offered. The Board of Directors of the APV met this morning with the jury composed of Luz Sánchez Mellado, journalist for EL PAÍS and collaborator within the String SER; Antonio Rubio, honorary president of the Association of Investigative Journalists; Óscar Torres, information director of RNE, representing the winners of the final version; Mar Domínguez, director of the Colpisa Agency, and Francisco Forjas, former worldwide correspondent of RNE. The jury’s identify is accomplished by the member of the Communication division of Unicaja – which sponsors the award -, Yolanda Arrebola; the president of the APV, Fernando Sanz, and the overall secretary of the affiliation, Tamara Crespo.

History of the award

The Miguel Delibes National Journalism Award was created on May 22, 1996, after the author of The path y The holy innocents accepted that this award bear his identify. A proposal that was consolidated when the General Assembly of the APV agreed to its creation, inside the framework of the commemoration of the IV centenary of the granting of the title of metropolis to Valladolid.

Since then, the record of winners has been accomplished with works by nice journalists from throughout Spain: Fernando Lázaro Carreter (1996), Vicente Verdú (1997), Álex Grijelmo (1998), Jesús Marchamalo (1999), José Jiménez Lozano (2000), Carlos Luis Álvarez, Candid (2001), Juan José Millás (2002), Javier Marías (2003), Valentín García Yebra (2004), Andrés Trapiello (2005), María de los Ángeles Sastre (2006), Tomás Hoyas (2007), Antonio Álamo (2008), Luis María Ansón (2009), Joaquín Sánchez Torné (2010), Magí Camps (2011), Isaías Lafuente (2012), Iñaki Gabilondo (2013), Ignacio Camacho (2014), Pepa Fernández (2015), Martín Caparrós (2016), Elena Álvarez Mellado (2017), Mariángeles García (2018), Mar Abad (2019), Lola Pons (2021), Luna Paredes (2022) and Mara Torres (2023).

In 2024, the Miguel Delibes National Journalism Prize was awarded to a set of works ready by a number of professionals from Radio Nacional de España (RNE), framed underneath the title 30 years selling Spanish on Radio 5.