Flamenco-world.com,
winner of the 2010 Andalucia Journalism Prize
Sevillian journalist Silvia Calado, editor of the digital
magazine, is the representative of the award
Flamenco-world.com, 23rd November 2010
Flamenco-world.com earns one of
the top recognitions in journalism which are awarded in
Spain. The flamenco website, founded in 1997, has been given
the 2010 Andalucia Journalism Prize by the Junta de Andalucía
in the category of Internet. The jury, which deliberated
the afternoon of November 23rd, has highlighted “the
quality of this website, a reference in the field of information
about flamenco, identifying it as a very complete product
both through its journalistic contents and through being
a showcase of this artform by means of the multimedia contents
selection which it offers visitors”.
Flamenco-world.com, the flamenco
site since 1997 |
Flamenco-world.com has been the leading
flamenco website since it was founded in 1997. A pioneer
in the international coverage on the Internet of this artform
of Andalusian origin, now Intangible Heritage of Humanity,
the website currently receives over a million visits to
its pages per month from all over the world. As a medium
of communication, according to founding partner Daniel Muñoz,
“this prize means huge support for a vision of cultural
information, in this case about flamenco, based on quality,
professionalism and self-demand. It makes us feel accompanied
by the profession and the cultural institutions in defense
of first-rate journalism on the Internet. It likewise rewards
the slow, constant daily sowing, based on a high respect
for our culture and rigorous journalism. And curiously,
it still has to be pointed out in 2010, that it certifies
laying stakes on an Andalusian woman, educated at an Andalusian
university, to direct an international medium of communication”.
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Silvia Calado, editor
of online magazine Flamenco-world.com (Photo
Daniel Muñoz) |
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Flamenco-world.com attended the ceremony
of the twenty-fifth edition of the Andalusia Journalism
Prize represented by Sevillian journalist Silvia Calado
Olivo (Seville, 1975), who has worked as editor of the digital
magazine since 2002. Graduated in Journalism by the University
of Seville, she completed her education with a post-graduate
degree in Business Communication, with studies in Contemporary
History at the University of Nantes (France) and in Art
History at UNED. After beginning professionally in media
like Europa Press and Radio Nacional de España, she
worked as a writer at the Andalusian office of the business
daily Expansión and has collaborated as a guest writer
in newspapers such as Diario de Sevilla, Diario de Jerez
and La Vanguardia. She is also the author of informative
and research books like ‘Todo sobre flamenco/ All
about flamenco’, ‘El negocio del flamenco’
and ‘Por bulerías. 100 años de compás
flamenco’.
The candidate’s dossier included
a summary of the most outstanding contents about international
flamenco news published by Flamenco-world.com throughout
2009, in its dual edition in English and Spanish. Standing
out are interviews of artists like Enrique Morente, Vicente
Amigo, Miguel Poveda and Eva Yerbabuena, among others; reports
such as 'Backstage with... Flamenco Hoy de Carlos Saura'
and 'Takeover in Flamenco Cante. ’80s Generation',
among others; the multimedia coverage of flamenco festivals
like Festival de Jerez 2009, the 2009 Nîmes Flamenco
Festival, Barcelona’s 2009 Ciutat Vella Flamenco Festival
and Córdoba’s White Night of Flamenco 2009;
around two hundred news items of its own and original photographic
work by Daniel Muñoz.
Flamenco-world.com shares the list with
four other award-winners. In the category of Press, the
prize went to José Joaquín León Morgado,
author of 'Punto de Encuentro', a series of interviews published
in the dailies of Grupo Joly. In the category of Radio,
the jury awarded the prize to Fernando Pérez Monguió
for the program 'Ser Andaluces', which is broadcast within
Cadena Ser’s Ventana-Andalucía. In the category
of Television, the prize went to Giralda Televisión
for its special program about the inaugural flight in Seville
of the military airplane A400M. And in the category of Photography,
the award was given to Raúl Caro Cárdenas
for the snapshot 'Se deben la vida', published on the cover
of the daily newspaper Público.
The jury of the 25th edition of the Andalusia Journalism
Prizes was presided over by the adviser to the Presidency
and Spokesperson, Mar Moreno, and consisted of Francisco
Perujo Serrano, general manager of the Government Spokesperson’s
Office; Julio Ruiz Araque, general manager of Comunicación
Social; Andrés García Maldonado, president
of the Andalusian Federation of Press Associations; Lalia
González Santiago, director of La Voz de Cádiz;
Magdalena Trillo Domínguez, director of Granada Hoy;
Juan Luis Manfredi Mayoral, director of the Master’s
Program of Audiovisual Business Management at the University
of Seville; Alicia Bonachera Álvarez, director of
the Territorial Center of Radio Nacional de España
in Andalusia, and José Antonio Herencia Ordóñez,
coordinator of the Government Spokesperson’s Office,
who acted as secretary.
