Winners

José Manuel Bustamante has worked the majority of his career at the daily El Mundo, where he started in 1993 coming from the newspaper El Independiente after its disappearance. At El Mundo, Bustamante wrote interviews and reports mostly for weekend supplements. An important part of the articles discuss the national and international politics.
Since 2007 he joined the editorial office of the web edition of the newspaper El Mundo. Since June 2009, he works as a freelancer and collaborates with various media, including the magazine “Frontera Digital”.

Esther Leburgue, graduated from the ESJ (Science and Agricultural Journalism) in 2005, continued to work freelance for a year in Paris. She treated environmental and science subjects for the professional press. In July 2007, she left Paris to work freelance in China for a year in the same fields of interest. From August 2008 to May 2009 she assumed the editorship of a journal of the Embassy of France in Israel. In June and July 2009, she visited South Africa and published reports about the society. One is about Zimbabwean refugees in Johannesburg who find refuge from a Methodist bishop living there. The other report is about the rape of black lesbians in townships of the country (that’s the one she presents to this Prize). Since summer 2009, she is back in France working as a freelancer.

Frédéric Delepierre returned to the site of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, in Madhya Pradesh state in India. It was there overnight on 2 December 1984 that a violent explosion rocked  the pesticide factory there. In total, 40 tonnes of hydrogen cyanide were released into the air around the city. The blast caused what remains to this day the world’s largest industrial disaster. More than 25 years on, some of the thousands of victims and their families feel abandoned.