The journalist Josep Corbella from La Vanguardia received the Concha García Campoy scientific journalism award this Wednesday in the career section for “his brilliant professional career as a science and health journalist” in this newspaper. These awards, created by the Television Academy, recognize the excellence of professional careers or journalistic works that convey stories related to research, scientific dissemination or health to society with rigor, ethics and commitment.
A journalist for La Vanguardia specializing in science and health since 1990, Josep Corbella received the award from Ignacio Melero, a researcher specializing in immunotherapy. Corbella wanted to recall in his speech that he trained in radio precisely with Concha García Campoy in the program ‘Campoy en su punto’, on Punto Radio, and stressed that “she was the first person in Spain who had the vision and the courage to carry out a section of information and scientific news in prime time and every week”.
The learning in this program helped him to film himself when speaking in public -something that Corbella has admitted that he did not like- and it was useful for his later collaborations, also of scientific content, in the Versió RAC1 program and to report on the pandemic on television in La Sexta, as well as in the videos of LaVanguardia.com.
The most winners of this seventh edition of the awards have been in the television category for the team of the report ‘Anthropocene: our legacy on the rocks’, broadcast on the program ‘Crónicas’ on La 2 de TVE with a script by Reyes Ramos and production by Ramon Senent; in the radio category, the winner is Eva Caballero for ‘Perseverance, the rover capable of searching for traces of life, ready to land on Mars’, broadcast on Radio Euskadi; In the written press, the report “Microorganisms are the masters” was awarded, published in the magazine “Muy Interesante” by Laura Chaparro; and in the digital press the award goes to Verónica Pavés for ‘El viaje temporal de las perseidas’, published in eldia.es.
The award ceremony, which was held at the National Cancer Research Center in Madrid, was led by the journalist Sandra Golpe and was attended by the president of the Television Academy, María Casado, among other professionals.
