Nuria Garrido, Arturo Checa and Juan Carlos Cárdenas were also distinguished by a jury of professionals during the awards organized by the CSIF union
ABC’s Washington correspondent, David Alandete, was proclaimed winner of the professional excellence prize awarded by the Valencian Community Journalism Awards.
Nuria Garrido, Arturo Checa, Juan Carlos Cárdenas and David Alandete won, in the different categories, the fifteenth edition of the Valencian Community Journalism Awards. The competition is organized by the CSIF union with the collaboration of Uniteco Seguros for an additional year. The secret vote of the jury, composed exclusively of information professionals, resulted in this verdict this morning. The awards ceremony will take place on November 21 at the SH Valencia Palace Hotel.
David Alandete was born in Algemesí in 1978, he was deputy director of the newspaper El País between 2014 and 2018. Correspondent of the newspaper in Washington, where he worked from 2006 to 2012 as correspondent at the Pentagon, the State Department and Congress . He then worked as a reporter and presenter on the Localia TV Madrid channel, where he covered the terrorist attacks of March 11, 2004. He currently works from Washington as a correspondent for the international section of the ABC newspaper.
Juan Carlos Cárdenas and David Alandete won the Ex Aequo prize in the Professional Career category. Juan Carlos Cárdenas was born in Madrid in 1959, the son of a journalist and grandson of a photographer. After collaborating in several journalistic media in Valencia, he was hired by the Hoja de Lunes de Valencia and in 1989 he began collaborating at the EFE agency, where a few months later he took charge of the department of photography of the Valencian Community until his retirement in February. 2024. He has covered countless sporting events and the most important events of the Community during the 35 years in which he developed his professional activity at the EFE.
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Nuria Garrido, Castellón, 1995, Revolutionary Journalist Award, one of the first Spaniards to arrive in the Ukrainian region to cover the war against Russia and the youngest. Núria Garrido studied journalism at the University of Valencia. His first steps were taken within the Valencian delegation of La Razón, shortly after joining the editorial staff of Levante and El Mundo in the summer of 2017. In 2022 he begins his international journey covering the start of Russian invasion. in Ukraine for LaSexta and Univisión. In 2023, he arrived in Israel to cover the invasion of Gaza, where he currently continues for EFE but also LaSexta. Her commitment to international journalism and the defense of human rights is what characterizes her.
Arturo Checa, Valencia, 1975, Journalist of the Year award. He joined Las Provincias in 1998. Vocento Communication Prize 2010 and Juan Andrés García National Journalism Prize from the Jerez Press Association, in addition to being honored twice by the Valencia Local Police. Arturo took his first professional steps as an announcer on Cadena Ser de Utiel and since 1998 he has worked in the newspaper Las Provincias de Valencia. He has worked in the Events and Courts sections and currently heads the Valencia and Comunitat sections, also carrying out reporting and investigative work. Every Sunday he writes an opinion column entitled “Fireside Stories”.
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