Ariel Soler Costafreda, who for forty years with his pen has performed a profound journalism and criticism, with an international mission as a war correspondent in Angola, and a couple of books published, won the Award for the Work of Life José Vazquez Savón that Cuban Journalist Association (UPEC) granted this year in Guantanamo.
Ariel Soler Costafreda, who for forty years with his pen has performed a profound journalism and criticism, with an international mission as a war correspondent in Angola, and a couple of books published, won the Award for the Work of Life José Vazquez Savón that Cuban Journalist Association (UPEC) granted this year in Guantanamo.
The jury composed of a team of several prestigious professionals of the easternmost province of Cuba, chaired by Antonio Marrero Duverger, also valued for that prize “his results in contest of the press and his role as a teacher in retraining courses to journalism".
The jury finally gave the prize to Costafreda taking into account "his successful accomplishment of internationalist mission in the People's Republic of Angola, as a reporter and editor of Verde Olivo Magazine and collaborator of radio station in that nation on the African continent.”
The same jury chose the winners of the Award for Work of the Year Nelsa Luque in newspapers, photojournalism, radio, television and digital journalism, of which the last two categories were declared null for lack of creativity, research and contrast of sources, and limited use of hypermedia resources respectively.
In press, the journalist Lilibeth Alfonso Martinez of Venceremos; in radio, reporter Marta Reyez Noa, of CMKS Radio Station were also awarded, while in photojournalism the award was given to the cameraman Rolbis Llácer Machado of Primada Vision Television Channel and photojournalist Leonel Escalona Furones of this weekly newspaper.
Source: Venceremos