Mónica González de Mujica receives Career Tribute Award
Diego Goldberg and José Carlos Paredes receive Photography and Text Awards

Mónica González de Mujica, Career Tribute winner Diego Goldberg, winner of the Photography category Presidium members

Monterrey, Mexico, August 29, 2006.   A woman who has dedicated her entire life and courage to the craft was the recipient of the New Journalism Award (Premio Nuevo Periodismo CEMEX + FNPI). This journalism award, which is considered one of the most prestigious in the world, has been chaired for the past five years by CEMEX's Chairman and CEO Lorenzo H. Zambrano and Nobel Price Laureate in Literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Mónica González de Mujica of Chile, Diego Goldberg (Argentina) of the La Nación newspaper, and Peruvian writer José Carlos Paredes of Etiqueta Negra magazine, received the award in the categories of Career Tribute, Photography, and Text, respectively. "This Award is the most important prize that I have ever received, and I never imagined I would win. I am humbled and honored, it makes me feel proud and even more committed to further research and continuing to work," said Gonzalez Mujica, after receiving a standing ovation. Now a tradition, the venue for the awards ceremony was Monterrey's MARCO Museum of Contemporary Art. The event, held on August 29, was attended by journalists from different countries.

More about the Award

• The Award was instituted in 2000 by an agreement signed by Lorenzo H. Zambrano, Chairman and CEO of CEMEX and Gabriel García Marquez, President of Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI) [Foundation for a New Iberoamerican Journalism (FNPI)].
• The purpose of this Award is to bolster the quality of Spanish and Portuguese journalism in Iberoamerican countries.
• It has two modes: Competition and Tribute. The categories in the competition mode are Text, Photography, Internet, Radio, and Television.
• In odd years, the award categories are Photography and Text; while in even years, the award categories are Internet, Radio, and Television.
• In the Career Tribute Award recognizes a life dedicated to the craft.
• An international panel of judges chosen by the Award Governing Board selects the winners.
• This year, the winners were selected from among 873 text and 286 photograph entries.

If you would like to learn more about these journalists and their award-winning work, please visit http://www.nuevoperiodismo.org/