Winners

Alberto Spiller started his journalism career in Mexico in 2006 as a reporter for UdeG radio in the northern region of Jalisco, a West State of Mexico. For the last 2 years he has been a journalist and radio, press and television reporter at the media of the University of Guadalajara, capital of this state.

Guadalajara, the capital of state of Jalisco, is the second biggest city of Mexico. It is a metropolis of about 6 million people with remarkable social and economic divergence. A growing number of neighbourhoods of cardboard houses are developing near residential areas, in dangerous and unsanitary places. These neighbourhoods are inhabited by poor indigenous people who come from different areas of the country to earn their living and make a fortune.

Solano Nascimento started his career as a journalist in 1986. He has written for some of the most important Brazilian newspapers – such as Folha de S.Paulo and Correio Braziliense – and magazines – Época and Veja. Since 2008, Nascimento also teaches journalism at the University of Brasília. He has won 16 prizes and is the author of a book Os novos escribas (The new scribes), in which he criticizes the decline of investigative journalism in Brazil.

Nicaraguan journalist Yader Francisco Luna Garcia was awarded the 2010 Lorenzo Natali Grand Prize for his inside look at Nicaragua’s “Messenger Witch”, a radio character who launched a personal war over the airwaves, naming and shaming perpetrators of domestic violence. The wizened old woman tackles this tough issue head on, and her radio programme is widely followed in a jungle shantytown in the central Nicuraguan region of Bocana de Paiwas.