The journalist Victoria Prego received the National Television Award on Tuesday, September 28, with which she was awarded in 2018 and which was presented to her today by the Minister of Culture at a gala at the Prado Museum.
This award, endowed with 30,000 euros, recognizes the impressive trajectory of Prego that, as the jury assured, has been “carried out in all types of media, especially on television but also in the press, radio and new digital media”
“His professional example and independence must serve as a guide in the training of new generations of informants,” they stressed.
In this way, Prego becomes part of a small and exclusive group of journalists who, since 2009, the year in which the first award was awarded, has recognized the great television reporters.
Trajectory
Victoria Prego (1948, Madrid), a journalist specialized in the Spanish Transition, studied Political Science and began her career in 1974 in the Information Services of TVE, where she worked until 1994 in front of numerous live programs, documentaries and in RNE. Throughout her career she has interviewed important figures in the political, economic, social and cultural life of Spain, has been a contributor to various publications, and in 2000 she joined the newspaper The world, where she was attached to the director.
In September 2016, together with other colleagues, he launched the digital The Independent, in which she is attached to the director. Writer in Transition Dictionary, Presidents and others dedicated to Adolfo Suárez, Calvo Sotelo, Felipe González and José María Aznar, Prego has been distinguished with various awards such as the APM Award of Honor in 2013, the Víctor de la Serna Award, in 1995, as a team of The transition from TVE, El Correo 1995 Journalism Award, 1995 Antena de Oro, 2013 Camilo José Cela Independent Journalism Foundation Award, 2000 European Journalism Award, Silver Medal for Historical Documentaries at the New York Festival, Luca de Tena Award 2015, Award Clara Campoamor of the Madrid City Council 2015. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Rey Juan Carlos University in 2016 and for four years, from 2015 to 2019, she was president of the Madrid Press Association.
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