IAPA announces finalists in 2018 Excellence in Journalism contest

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MIAMI, Florida (August 10, 2018)—The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today announced the list of finalists in the contest that it holds each year to encourage excellence in journalism and the defense of freedom of expression in the Americas.

Marcel Granier, chairman of the IAPA's Awards Committee, declared, "The contest has a well-earned prestige and to qualify as a finalist is a great recognition and an incentive to continue in the search for new paths of professional excellence."

This year more than one thousand entries were received. The final announcement of the winners and honorable mentions will be made in the coming days.

Following are the categories and the names of the works and the finalist writers, without order of relevance:

CARTOON

- Venezuela Standing Up. Xavier Bonilla Zapata, El Universo, Ecuador

- Rampant. Jesús Ignacio Pérez Valenzuela, El Debate, Mexico

- Ara San Juan. Pablo Fernando Chumbita, La Voz del Interior, Argentina

- Trump Tweeting Pedro Javier Molina Blandón, Confidencial, Nicaragua

NEWS COVERAGE ON THE INTERNET

- Earthquakes in Oaxaca and Mexico City. Group work, El Debate, Mexico

- Repression in Venezuela. Group work, NTN24 SAS, Colombia

- Tales from the Border. Christopher Sherman, Rodrigo Abd, Associated Press, United States

- 2017 Sovereign Decision. Group work, Te lo Cuento News, United States

- Social Protests. Group work, La Crónica de Baja California, Mexico

NEWS COVERAGE

- The Mexico City Earthquake. Group work, Pie de Página, Mexico

- Protests in Venezuela. Group work, El Estímulo, Venezuela

- Illegal Traffic of Explosives. Nelson Ricardo Matta Colorado, El Colombiano, Colombia

- Mission Clarendon. Arthur Hall, Livern Barrett, Corey Robinson, Cecelia Campbell-Livingston, The Gleaner, Jamaica

NEWS COVERAGE ON MOBILES

- Legislative Elections. Group work, La Voz del Interior, Argentina

- Protests in Venezuela. Group work, Te lo Cuento News, United States

- Hurricane Season. Group work, Univision Noticias Digital, United States

- Pope Francis in Colombia. Group work, El Tiempo, Colombia

FEATURES

- The Babysitters of Barrio 18. Bryan Alexander Avelar Rodríguez, Revista Factum, El Salvador

- Seduced into Slavery: How a Mexican Family Became Sex Traffickers. Anastasia Moloney, Thomson Reuters Foundation, United States

- Super Old Lady of Puertas Azules. Julián Navarrete Silva, Magazine Nicaragua, Nicaragua

- The Hospital of Death. Eduardo Ignacio Ponte Carreño, El Nacional, Venezuela

- In The San Judas Tadeo Neighborhood ... When Living Is a Miracle. Jesús Peña Sánchez, Semanario, Mexico

HUMAN RIGHTS AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

- Any Woman Can de Murdered in the CDMX: The Murders of Women Intensify in The Capital. Guillermo Rivera Vázquez, VICE en español, Mexico

- The Coast Guard's 'Floating Guantánamos'. Seth Freed Wessler, TNYT & The Investigative Fund, United States.

- To Be Poor and Grow Old: A "Drama" in the DR. Doris Pantaleón, Listín Diario, Dominican Republic.

- Cemetery Malvinas. Group work, clarin.com, Argentina

- Monitor of The Violence, G1, Violence Studies Nucleus USP. Brazilian Public Safety Forum, Brazil

- Orphans of Health, Ipys Venezuela / El Pitazo, Venezuela

PHOTOGRAPHY

- 2017 Protests in Venezuela. Rayner José Peña Rojas, El Pitazo, Venezuela

- 2017 Protests in Venezuela. Ronaldo Schemidt, AFP, Mexico

- The Huachicol Townhouse. Carlos Ariel Ojeda Sánchez, El Universal, Mexico

- Battle and Hope: Tuberculosis in Lima. Omar Lucas, El País, Spain

- 2017 Earthquake in Mexico. Ronaldo Schemidt, Alfredo Estrella, Pedro Pardo, Yuri Cortez, Omar Torres, AFP, Mexico

- Hurricane María. Carlos Rivera Giusti, El Vocero de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico

INFOGRAPHICS

- 52 Years on a War Footing. Group work, eltiempo.com, Colombia

- To Be Reborn in the Mother Earth, The Temazcal Mystery. Manuel Alejandro Oyervides Ayala, El Sol de México, Mexico

- Mystery at Sea: The Case of the Submarine ARA San Juan. Group work, Clarin.com, Argentina

- Tunnel of the Central Prison of Porto Alegre. Leandro Maciel, Edu Oliveira, Zero Hora, Brazil

- Journalism Threatened. Eduardo Rubén Loría Villalobos, Úrsula Sánchez Rocha, Diario de Yucatán, Mexico

OPINION

- The Caparrós Tango and Lenin Mummy. Edgardo Ramón Moreno, La Voz del Interior, Argentina

- Signs of Government Indifference. Guillermo Robles Ramírez, El Diario de Coahuila, Mexico

- The Unforgiveable Mistake of Underestimating Democracy. Fernando Marcelo González, Clarín, Argentina

- Tremor: Black History of the Black Market. Lianet Fleites Claro, Diario de Cuba, Spain

DATA JOURNALISM

- 40 Mayors' Offices Under Scrutiny. Ana Carolina Alpírez, Ojoconmipisto.com, Guatemala

- Dice Competition. Group work, Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil

- Slave Land, eldiairo.es, Spain, in alliance with El Faro, El Salvador, Fernanda Cruz, Andrea Rodríguez, La Voz de Guanacaste, Costa Rica

- Transparent Doctors. Eva Belmonte, Raúl Díaz Poblete, Miguel Ángel Gavilanes, María Álvarez del Vayo, Civio, Spain

- Cost Overrun. Group work, Convoca, Peru

IN-DEPTH JOURNALISM

- Following The Trail of The Comptroller's Office. Colombiacheck, in alliance with La Patria, La Silla Vacía, Colombia

- Narcomap. Group work, Ojo-Publico.com, Peru

- The Odebrecht Case: Corruption and Overspending in Venezuela. Arnaldo Espinoza, Andrea Tosta, Emily Avendaño, Gustavo Ocando, Felipe Rotjes, Daniel Hernández, Víctor Amaya, Clímax, Venezuela

- The oil government of the path of Rubiale. Rutas de Conflicto, Colombia, in alliance with con Armando Info, Venezuela

ROBERTO EISENMANN JR. ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM

- Panorama of Fishing in Mexico. Group work, Datamares, Mexico

- Narcotala. Íñigo Arredondo Vera, Gabriel Pichardo, Ariel Ojeda, Miguel Ángel Gárnica, Griselda Carrera, María Luisa López, El Universal, Mexico

- Series: Livestock Farming Without Limit: The Slow Disappearance of Forests in Central America. Michelle Carrere, Wilder Pérez, José Arcia, Sebastián, Cristopher Mendoza, Mongabay Latam, Peru, Escalón, Duyerling Ríos, Cristopher Mendoza, Mongabay Latam, Peru

PEDRO JOAQUÍN CHAMORRO UNIVERSITY JOURNALISM

- The Favorite, Sector of War Among Crooks. Tatiana Salamanca, Datéate al minuto, Colombia

- "Grooming", a Documentary to Understand the New Method of Virtual Harassment. Tatiana Marcela Montes, Gisela Nahir Gimenez, Rodrigo Bordazahar, María José Della Room, Punto Convergente, Argentina

- Hidden Gem. Andrea Hanspach, César Merino, Punto seguido, Peru

- Of The Same Color. Nicole Estefanía Caisatoa Zambrano, Ricardo Sebastian Porras Cisternas, Joselyn Carolina Chora Sánchez, María José Rivera Vera, Bárbara Sofía Venegas Narváez, La barra espaciadora, Ecuador

The IAPA http://www.sipiapa.org is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the defense and promotion of freedom of the press and of expression in the Americas. It is made up of more than 1,300 publications from throughout the Western Hemisphere and is based in Miami, Florida.

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