The Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards are named after the Spanish philosopher and journalist José Ortega y Gasset. The awards were created by the newspaper El País in 1984.

Categories

Every year, these awards are given to those whose work has shown "a remarkable defense of freedom, independence, honesty and professional rigor as essential virtues of journalism".^[1] The awards were originally divided in four categories:

• Periodismo impreso (printed journalism)
• Periodismo digital (digital journalism)
• Periodismo gráfico (graphic journalism)
• Trayectoria profesional (career award)

As of 2016, the new categories are:

• Mejor Historia e Investigación Periodística (Best Story or Journalistic Investigation)
• Mejor Cobertura Multimedia (Best Multimedia Coverage)
• Mejor Fotografía (Best photography)
• Trayectoria profesional (Career Award)

Winners

2000

• • Best Information Work: Ernesto Ekaizer
  • Best Opinion Article: Fernando Savater
  • Best Research Work: John Carlin
  • Graphic: Julio Villarino

2001

• • Print: José Valdés and the research team of Reforma
  • Graphic: Gorka Lejarcegi
  • Career award El Comercio, Lima.

2002

• • Best Information Work: El Nuevo Herald
  • Best Research: Ángeles Espinosa – El País
  • Graphic: Andrés Carrasco Ragel – Diario de Cádiz

2003

• • Best Opinion Article: Roberto Pombo
  • Best Information Work: Spanish journalists who distinguished themselves in the war in Iraq (Special Award)
  • Graphic: Xurxo Lobato

2004

• • Best Information Work: El Nuevo Día of Puerto Rico
  • Best Research Work: Bru Rovira
  • Graphic: Sergio Pérez Sanz

2005

• • Best Information Work: Leticia Álvarez and Rosana Lanero – El Comercio
  • Best Research Work: Giannina Segnini, Ernesto Rivera and Mauricio Herrera Ulloa – La Nación
  • Graphic: Pablo Torres

2006

• • Print: Matías Vallés, Felipe Armendáriz and Marisa Goñi, journalists of Diario de Mallorca
  • Digital: Sandra Balsells
  • Graphic: Sergio Caro
  • Career Award: Lozano family for La Opinión of Los Angeles

2007

• • Print: Roberto Navia
  • Digital: Mundo.com en español (BBC website)
  • Graphic: Desirée Martín
  • Career award: Raúl Rivero

2008

• • Print: Sanjuana Martínez
  • Digital: Yoani Sánchez
  • Graphic: Gervasio Sánchez
  • Career Award: Zeta Magazine

2009

• • Print: Jorge Martínez Reverte
  • Digital: Amaya García Ortiz de Jocano
  • Graphic: Adolfo Suárez Illana (for photo of his father Adolfo Suárez)
  • Career award: Tomás Eloy Martínez

2010

• • Print: El País (investigative journalism on the Gurtel case)
  • Digital: Judith Torrea (for her blog, "Ciudad Juárez, en la sombra del narcotráfico")
  • Graphic: José Cendón
  • Career Award: Jean Daniel

2011

• • Print: Octavio Enriquez
  • Digital: Carlos Martínez D'Abuisson
  • Graphic: Cristóbal Manuel Sánchez Rodríguez
  • Career Award: Moisés Naím

2012

• • Print: Humberto Padgett
  • Digital: Carmela Ríos
  • Graphic: Carlos Jacobo Méndez
  • Career Award: Sir Harold Evans

2013

• • Print: Alberto Salcedo Ramos
  • Digital: Juan Ramón Robles
  • Graphic: Emilio Morenatti
  • Career Award: Jesús de la Serna

2014

• • Print: Pablo Ferri Tórtola, Alejandra Sánchez Inzunza and José Luis Pardo
  • Digital: Álvaro de Cózar, Mónica Ceberio, Cristina Pop, Luis Almodóvar, Álvaro de la Rúa, Paula Casado, Fernando Hernández, Ana Fernández, Rubén Gil, José María Ocaña, Gorka Lejarcegi, Gema García and Mariano Zafra
  • Graphic: Pedro Armestre
  • Career Award: Alan Rusbridger

2015

• • Print: Pedro Simón y Alberto Di Lolli
  • Digital: Gerardo Reyes
  • Graphic: José Palazón
  • Career Award: Teodoro Petkoff

2016

• • Best Story or Journalistic Investigation: Joseph Zárate Salazar (for his story "The woman of the blue lagoon against the black lagoon")
  • Best Multimedia Coverage: Lilia Saúl and Ginna Morelo (for their coverage "The disappeared")^[2]
  • Best Photography: Samuel Aranda
  • Career Award: Adam Michnik

2017

• • Best Story or Journalistic Investigation: El Periódico of Catalunya (for a series of stories on various cases of pedophilia in several schools in Barcelona)^[3]
  • Best Multimedia Coverage: Univisión Noticias (for their story "Holidays in no man's water")^[4]
  • Best Photography: Yander Alberto Zamora
  • Career Award: Alma Guillermoprieto

2018

• • Best Story or Journalistic Investigation: Miriam Castillo, Nayeli Roldán and Manuel Ureste (for their investigation "The master scam")^[5]
  • Best Multimedia Coverage: Univisión, Inger Díaz Barriga (for her story "Better go, Cristina")^[6]
  • Best Photography: David Armengou and Marcela Miret
  • Career Award: Soledad Gallego-Díaz

2019

• • Best Story or Journalistic Investigation: 5W; Agus Morales and Eduardo Ponces (for their investigation "Los muertos que me habitan")^[7]
  • Best Multimedia Coverage: El Pitazo; Johanna Osorio Herrera y otros (for their investigation "La generación del hambre")^[7]
  • Best Photography: Vincent West of Reuters (for his image "el empuje y la fuerza")^[7]
  • Career Award: Darío Arizmendi^[7]