{"id":13915,"date":"2018-08-22T14:48:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T14:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&p=13915"},"modified":"2021-04-06T14:27:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T14:27:05","slug":"bernardo-kucinski-honoured-vladimir-herzog-special-award-2018","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/bernardo-kucinski-honoured-vladimir-herzog-special-award-2018\/","title":"Bernardo Kucinski to be honoured with Vladimir Herzog special award","content":"

On Friday 17, the commission organising the 40th Vladimir Herzog Journalism Award for Amnesty and Human Rights announced that the Journalist and Writer Bernardo Kucinski will be honoured this year with the Special Vladimir Herzog Award.<\/p>\n

Kucinski has carved out an important path as a journalist, left-wing militant and University Professor. He worked at important media outlets such as Veja, the BBC and The Guardian. In the 1970s he worked on the alternative seminars \u201cMovimento\u201d and \u201cEm Tempo\u201d. He made a teaching career in the Department of Journalism and Editing at the School for Communications and Arts at the University of Sao Paulo and was Special Assistant at the Secretary for Social Communications of the President of the Republic in Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva\u2019s first mandate.<\/p>\n

The Vladimir Herzog Award is considered to be among the most important accolades of journalism in the country. It recognises work that values democracy and human rights. In 2018, there are 607 applications and these are being evaluated in six categories:\u00a0Arts<\/strong>\u00a0(illustrations, caricatures and cartoons, political cartoons and cartoon strips),\u00a0Photography,\u00a0Written Journalism<\/strong>,\u00a0Video Journalism, Audio Journalism and Multimedia Journalism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The selection of the winners will take place in a public session which will be transmitted live on the internet, on 11 October 2018, in the Tiradentes Room at the Municipal Chambers of S\u00e3o Paulo. This year a\u00a0 POPULAR VOTE <\/strong>is being tried out. This is a totally independent stage, open to the public from 1 October to 10 October to evaluate the work of the finalists. The result of this is before the meeting of the awards board. The VOTO POPULAR will select just one piece of work to receive an award. The piece that receives the most votes from the public, regardless of the category it is registered in, will receive a trophy, created by the artist, Elifas Andreato.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The 4th<\/sup> Vladimir Herzog Award for Amnesty and Human Rights<\/strong>\u00a0is being held and organised by the following institutions: The S\u00e3o Paulo State Professional Journalists Union; The National Federation of Journalists \u2013 FENAJ; The Justice and Peace Commission of the Archdiocese of S\u00e3o Paulo; Conectas Human Rights; The Brazilian Association for Investigative Journalism \u2013 ABRAJI; The United Nations Information Centre in Brazil \u2013 UNIC Rio; The University of S\u00e3o Paulo School for Communications and Arts \u2013 ECA\/USP; The Brazilian Society for Interdisciplinary Studies in Communications \u2013 Intercom; The Federal Order of Attorneys of Brazil – OAB; The Order of Attorneys of Brazil \u2013 Sao Paulo, \u00a0the organisation Periferia em Movimento<\/em>, The Sao Paulo State Police Ombudsman and the Vladimir Herzog Institute.<\/p>\n

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The 40th Vladimir Herzog Journalism Award for Amnesty and Human Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n