VISÃO's team of journalists receives the Gazeta de Imprensa award. Read the award-winning report here.
The report "Immigrants – The Arms That Feed Us," which graced the cover of VISÃO's February 1, 2024, issue, won the Press category of the 2024 Gazeta Awards, considered the most prestigious in journalism in Portugal. The jury, which announced the winners this week for works published throughout last year, once again awarded VISÃO in this category. However, unlike in 2022, when Miguel Carvalho won solo for an investigative article on the Chega party (winning jointly with Pedro Caldeira Rodrigues of Agência Lusa), this time a large team of journalists wrote the award-winning report. Clara Teixeira, Filipe Fialho, Joana Loureiro, João Amaral Santos, Luísa Oliveira, Paulo M. Santos, Rui Antunes, Sara Rodrigues, Sónia Calheiros were responsible for the texts, while the images were captured by the lenses of photojournalists Lucília Monteiro, Luís Barra and José Carlos Carvalho, in various regions of the country.
We learned, for example, that without labor from Nepal, India, and Thailand, we would have almost no agriculture; that without labor from Indonesia, fishing capacity would be greatly reduced; and that without labor from Brazil, most restaurants would close. Business owners themselves acknowledge this in this portrait of immigration in Portugal, produced by many hands and edited by Alexandra Correia, which demonstrated how economic figures contradicted the hate speech—at the time, Social Security contributions were seven times higher than the benefits received.
At the 40th Gazeta Awards, an initiative of the Journalists' Club, Mário Zambujal received the Merit Award. The writer has also worked in many editorial offices, including those of A Bola , Diário de Lisboa , O Século , Record , RTP, and Diário de Notícias , among others.
In the Television category, the award went to Jacinto Godinho and Carlos Oliveira, authors of the documentary “Os Olhos da Revolução” (The Eyes of the Revolution), shown on RTP, about the first video images of the revolution of April 25, 1974. Gazeta de Rádio ended up in the hands of Maria Augusta Casaca, from TSF, for her report “Abril passed by here”, for which she traveled the country looking for testimonies of the campaigns of “cultural dynamization and civic action”, promoted by military personnel of the MFA (Armed Forces Movement), in the post-Carnation Revolution.
In the Multimedia section, Joana Gorjão Henriques, Joana Bougard, and José Carvalheiro of Público newspaper were recognized for their work "Anatomy of a Detention by the PSP," which reconstructs the detention of several young people following a protest against an anti-immigration demonstration organized by Chega. The Photography Award went to António Pedro Santos of Lusa, for images captured in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, while Tatiana Felício of Antena 1 won for Gazeta Revelação, for her report "The River That Unites Us," about the connections between the towns of Alcoutim, in Portugal, and Sanlúcar del Guadiana, in Spain, separated, but narrowly, by the river that marks the border between the two neighbors on the Iberian Peninsula.
All of the aforementioned awards were decided by a jury composed of Eugénio Alves, Cesário Borga, Eva Henningsen, Fernanda Mestrinho, Elisabete Caramelo, Dina Soares, Joaquim Furtado, Fernando Cascais, Jorge Leitão Ramos, José Rebelo, Inácio Ludgero and Paulo Martins, but the Regional Press award was given by the management of the Journalists' Club, which awarded it to Diário do Alentejo , the now weekly newspaper from Beja, founded in 1932, "has been showing itself to be particularly attentive to the new social realities of a region in change", with "a high weight of migrant communities".
READ THE AWARD-WINNING REPORT HERE :
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