• JOURNALISM PRIZE

    The INSTAR Investigative Journalism Prize arose from the need to promote and support the practice of journalism in Cuba, a profession that is imperative for the transparent functioning of any modern society. In this 2020, the jury, made up of the prestigious Latin American journalists Cristian Alarcón (Chile/Argentina), Marcela Turati (Mexico), and Oscar Martínez (El Salvador) decided to award a prize in accordance with the call to protect the identity of the authors of the selected investigative pieces and with the commitment to work jointly in the future with those selected on the execution, completion, and successful publication of the chosen projects.ejecución, finalización y publicación exitosa de los proyectos en cuestión.


    CALL FOR ENTRY



  • 2020 PRIZE RECIPIENTS

    • Investigative Journalism Awards


      - La depresión en Cuba después de 1959 (Depression in Cuba after 1959), by Anastasia. (pseudonym)

      - Feminicidio en Cuba, la arista de la violencia de género (Femicide in Cuba, the Edge of Gender Violence), by Gerónimo García. (pseudonym)

      - Artista + Alternatividad + Activismo = Disidencia: Acercamiento a una vertiente del activismo cubano (Artist + Alternative + Activism = Dissidence: Approach to an Aspect of Cuban Activism), by Boribón Maffesoli. (pseudonym)



      Jury


      Cristian Alarcón Casanova
      (Chile, 1970)

      Cristian Alarcon Casanova is a Chilean writer and journalist nationalized in Argentina. He has a degree in Journalism and Social Communication from the National University of La Plata. He is co-director of the Master’s Degree in Narrative Journalism at the Universidad Nacional General San Martín (UNSAM). Since the early 1990s, he has been dedicated to investigative journalism and writing chronicles for the newspapers Página / 12, Clarín, Crítica de la Argentina, and for the magazines TXT, Rolling Stone, and Gatopardo. He is the founder and director of Anfibia, a digital magazine of chronicles and narrative essays, and the creator of the Performative Journalism Laboratory, an alliance between Anfibia/UNSAM and Casa Sofía, which brings together journalists and artists to jointly create pieces enriched with the language of both disciplines. )

      His book Cuando me muera quiero que me toquen cumbia won the Samuel Chavkin Prize for Journalistic Integrity in Latin America, awarded by the North American Congress of Latin American Authors. He was a visiting professor at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the University of Austin, Texas, and at the University of Lille, France.


      Marcela Turati
      (Ciudad de México, 1974)

      Marcela Turati is an independent journalist covering issues related to human rights, social development, and the impacts of drug violence and its victims. She is dedicated to denouncing the risks for journalists in Mexico. She is the founder of the Red de Periodistas de a Pie, a training and protection network for journalists, and the Quinto Elemento Lab, an organization that supports investigative journalism.

      She has won multiple recognitions in the field of journalism, such as the New Ibero-American Journalism Foundation award (FNPI), the WOLA for Human Rights, the LASA Media Award, the Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, and the Gabriel García Márquez Journalism award in 2019. She has been a jury member for various international journalism prizes such as the Global Shining Light Award and the FNPI Premio Gabo award. She is a contributor at Proceso and Nieman Reports.


      Óscar Martínez D ́Aubuisson
      (El Salvador, 1983)

      Óscar Martínez is the editor of special investigations at El Faro, a journalistic project begun in El Salvador, whose online component, elfaro.net, is the first Latin American internet newspaper. The journalists of El Faro were awarded the Award of Excellence of the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for New Journalism in 2016. Martínez is dedicated to in-depth journalism on issues of migration in Mexico and violence and organized crime in Central America.

      He is the author of the book Los migrantes que no importan (Icaria, 2010), which appeared in the English translation as The Beast (Verso Books, 2013), a chronicle of the journey of Central American undocumented immigrants through Mexico. The Beast was awarded a 2014 WOLA-DUKE Book Award. He is also the author of A History of Violence (Verso Books, 2016), which looks at violence, corruption, gangs and the abandonment of the population in northern Central America. He is co-author of Jonathan no tiene tatuajes (UCA Editores, 2010), Crónicas Negras, desde una región que no cuenta (Aguilar, 2013) and El Niño de Hollywood (Debate, 2018; Verso Books, 2019), which explains through the life of a hit man the story of the Mara Salvatrucha-13. His work is included in the anthologies Crónicas de otro planeta (Debate, 2008), Nuestra aparente rendición (Random House, 2011), Antología de crónica latinoamericana actual (Alfaguara, 2012) and Los Malos (UDP Editores, Chile, 2015). He has published articles, essays and opinion columns in American media outlets, including The New York Times, The Nation and The New Republic.

      In 2008, he received the National Prize for Cultural Journalism Fernando Benítez in Mexico and a National Human Rights Prize for the José Simeón Cañas University of El Salvador. In 2013, Martínez was a member of the team that won the first prize in journalism from the Institute of Press and Society in 2013, the Hillman Prize in 2018, and the Premio Rey de España in 2019. In 2016, he received the Maria Moors Cabot award, given by Columbia University and the International Press Freedom Award, given by the Committee to Protect Journalists. In 2019, he was the first guest to the Global Visiting Fellows program of the Columbia Journalism School.