With more than 36 years of experience in cultural journalism in the country, Virginia Bautista was the winner of the FILEY 2023 National Journalism Award, announced this Friday, January 27, the Yucatan International Reading Fair (FILEY) 2023.
According to the Jury, Virginia Bautista won the 2023 FILEY National Journalism Award “for her way of understanding the country’s culture and cultural heritage by contributing to its investigation and preservation, in addition to her significant contribution to interdisciplinary manifestations. Her daily work opens horizons towards Mexican culture in the country and the world, with an interdisciplinary and permanent journalistic work that has maintained a remarkable journalistic rigor”.
The jury was made up of Pastor Granados Pech, head of the General Coordination of Institutional Communication of the Autonomous University of Yucatán (UADY); Miguel de la Cruz and Sonia Sierra, winners of the 2018 and 2022 National Journalism Award, respectively.
Bautista is a communicologist graduated from UNAM. According to her profile issued by FILEY, Virginia Bautista debuted in cultural journalism in the newspaper El Vigía in Ensenada, Baja California; She moved to Tijuana in mid-1987, where until 1993 she worked in the sections or cultural supplements of newspapers such as ABC, Sol de Tijuana, Mosaico and Diario 29.
Likewise, he was part of the team of the Mexico Section of the Spanish newspaper El País (1994-1997) when it just opened its first newsroom in the Mexican capital. In addition, she has collaborated in the cultural sections of the newspapers Reforma (1997-2005) and Excelsior, where she has worked for almost 17 years as a cultural reporter.
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“The reporter has taken special interest in disseminating the work of women artists and promoting disciplines that are not widely supported, such as dance and indigenous cultures. Her work has allowed the new generations of Mexican readers to get to know the country’s contemporary culture and art, ”FILEY issued.
Also, he has worked in a special way the sources of music and literature. Examples of this are the sections “With own music” and “The author and his work”, which he published in El País, in which he interviewed for three years from Daniel Catán, Ramón Vargas and Luis Herrera de la Fuente to Cuco Sánchez, Luis Ángel Silva “Melón” and Paquita la del Barrio, fundamental protagonists in each of their fields. Also noteworthy are the interviews he conducted with important creators who have died today, such as Alejandro Rossi, Leopoldo Zea, Luis Villoro, Paula Amor Poniatowska, among others.
The FILEY National Journalism Award was created in coordination with Manos Libres Periodistas with the aim of recognizing the trajectory of journalists whose daily work contributes to the promotion and understanding of cultural work in Mexico.
Previously, Miguel de la Cruz (2018), Merry MacMasters (2019), Leticia Sánchez Medel (2020) and Sonia Sierra (2022) have received it.
Virginia Bautista will receive the award on March 13 during the VIII Meeting of Cultural Journalism, which will be held within the framework of the eleventh edition of the Yucatan 2023 International Reading Fair.