Recognized by the jury as the Spanish winner ex aequo, in this category the Mexican journalistic production Transportista, a story about the war on drugs on an international scale, has also been awarded.
This master of journalists’ entry into the world of podcasts has been considered worthy of one of the four statuettes ex aequo among the 15 categories in the first edition of the Global Ondas Awards of the Podcast, organized by PRISA Audio and Cadena SER together with Spotify, in which 888 entries from more than 15 countries took part.
The podcast GAL: El Triángulo, distributed by Podimo and produced by El Cañonazo and The Facto – the latter also collaborate in the Maldita.es master’s – brings together perpetrators and victims of the dirty war against ETA as the fortieth anniversary of the first GAL attack approaches. For the jury, this production “travels through the depths of one of the darkest episodes in Spain’s recent history, providing new investigations, new revelations, new voices and perspectives on a past that is unknown to a large part of the audience.”
Antonio Rubio’s look at the past has driven judicial investigations and decisions that modify the present and the future of journalism and of the world in which we live. Some of his journalistic revelations have become notitias in criminis, as has happened with GAL, the Fondos Reservados, the escape of Luis Roldán, the wiretaps and papers of the CESID, operación Nécora, operación Sokoa, ETA’s revolutionary taxes, the Zabalza case, investigations into 11-M, Jesús Gil and corruption in Marbella, and the Ellacuría case.
In the Master’s in investigative journalism, new narratives, data, fact-checking and transparency, Rubio is clear that “time and new tools are essential to get closer to the truth.” And this is how he envisions the future of journalism: as work that does not stay on the surface, but investigates and tells reality to citizens through data.