The television academy delivers the VI scientific journalism awards Concha García Campoy

Eva Cabrero and Verónica Sanz collect the award for the ‘LasExta Noche: all the keys COVID-19’, in the television category, while Sara Tabares receives the award for ‘Pseudoscience in the Super. What products do we sell to us more lies? ’From the‘ Be healthy ’program.

The Television Academy and Audiovisual Sciences and Arts delivered on Monday, under strict healthcare measures, the VI Awards for Scientific Journalism Concha García Campoy. In the ceremony of these awards, which recognize the excellence of professional trajectories or journalistic works that transfer society with rigor, ethics and commitment stories related to research, scientific dissemination or health, the Minister of Science and Innovation participated Pedro Duke, the Secretary of State for Communication Miguel Ángel Oliver and the director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis García Montero.

The CSIC researcher, Margarita del Val; the director of the Cnio María Blasco; the president of FAPE Nemesio Rodríguez; The honorary president of the Radio Academy, Luis del Olmo, and the president of the Academy, María Casado. The ceremony was led by the journalist Carlos García Hirschfeld and had the production of Francisco Amescua. The awards that recognize the scientific dissemination were supported by APARAFA, Murprotec, IMF Business School and Finca El Refugio.

The act started with the words of the scientific researcher at the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center (CSIC-UAM) Margarita del Val that highlighted the fundamental role of dissemination in society: "It is very important to tell what you do and that people understand it. I want to claim here that science is also part of culture, contributes to progress but we also enjoy knowing it. And I want to thank scientific journalists for the work they do for making that leap."

In the written press category, the journalist received the prize Jesús Méndez, for the rigor and journalistic quality of your report Immunotherapy: The Cancer Revolution For National Geographic. "There are many ideas that are not central ideas in science and are waiting to have time and financing to have the opportunity to become reality. The science news is very important and transcends the merely scientific field," said the award -winning.

The director of Damn science, Rocío Benavente, he collected the prize in the digital press category for his work of approaching science to society with depth and simplicity from a fresh and innovative format and for his fight against false news. "The prize really is for the cursa team.

Radio and television

The journalist Sara Tabares collected the award in the radio category for rigor and proximity to consumer concerns in the chapter Pseudoscience in the super. What products do more lies sell to us? of the program Be healthy of Radio Valencia (Cadena Ser). In his gratitude he pointed out "if journalists send science that people have criteria, and with that criterion we do not give voice to pseudosciences, to influencers, or the bulos. I do not want to stop remembering the person who is named after this award: thanks to her I dedicate myself to this and for her I will continue doing journalism without conflict of interest."

Eva Cabrero and Verónica Sanz They collected the award to LASEXTA NIGHT: All the keys Covid 19, In the television category, for its commitment to health scientific information in Prime Time and for becoming an informative reference to know and understand the concepts and evolution of pandemic through the voice of experts. "This award is from the team of Lasxta Night That since the Pandemia began, it has turned every Saturday when the audience understood what was happening through the voice of doctors and experts. It is very important that we invest in science and that we listen to those who know, only from their hand we will be able to overcome this pandemic. Without science there is no future, ”he said.

The paleoanthropologist Juan Luis Arsuaga He received the award for Trajectory for your talent as a communicator and scientific disseminator. "Scientific research needs the love and understanding of society and public managers. And in that social complicity the disseminators and the media are very important. The experience to understand things is necessary. Concha García Campoy, whom I tried and wanted a lot, understood that our work is to explain to society science so that they can understand it," he said.

Finally, the president of the television academy, María Casado, stressed that "these awards talk about coexistence and are a recognition of responsible journalism. In a pleasure to have so much talent here that helps us understand the world around us a little more. I hope that the Concha García Campoy scientific journalism awards continue to serve inspiration and thrust for those who come."

The jury of the VI edition of the Scientific Journalism Awards Concha García Campoy has been formed by the journalist Lorenzo Díaz García-Campoy, the president of the María Casado Television Academy, the president of the FAPE Nemesio Rodríguez, the president of honor of the Academy of the Radio Luis del Olmo, the director of the Cnio María Blasco and the president of the National Association of Health Informators (Anis) Almendral.

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