The president of the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF), Cristina Herrero, today took part of the first edition of the journalism awards given by the Association of Economic Information Journalists (APIE). She presented the award in the category of Leading Journalist, awarded to the journalist Fernando González Urbaneja. The journalist Arturo Lopo received the award in the category of Young Promising Journalist.
As the APIE explains, these awards seek to recognise excellence in economic information and the values that should drive it: respect for the truth, independence, clarity, precision, pedagogy, critical spirit, open-mindedness, and impartiality.
Cristina Herrero was a member of the jury for the awards, which reached a decision last March. The jury was chaired by the president of the APIE, Jorge Zuloaga, and also included the governor of the Bank of Spain, Pablo Hernández de Cos; the president of the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV), Rodrigo Buenaventura; the president of the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC), Cani Fernández; the academic economists Manuel Arellano (CEMFI) and Antonia Díaz (Complutense University of Madrid); and the journalists Macarena Muñoz, Rebeca Gimeno, Iñigo de Barrón (who cast their votes telematically) and Amparo Estrada. The secretary of APIE, Pablo Allendesalazar, and the director of communication and image of PwC Spain, Javier García de la Vega, acted as non-voting secretaries.
The jury decided to award Fernando González Urbaneja in the category that seeks to recognise the most relevant careers in the profession, in recognition of his extensive experience and the excellence of his work, both in journalism and media management and in teaching. It also decided to award Arturo Lopo in the category that seeks to recognise the work of the most promising professionals up to 35 years of age, for their upward trajectory and their ability to bring the complexity of economic information to the audiovisual media public with rigour.