Zaragoza journalist Pilar Perla, Vice-Director Tercer Milenio de Heraldo de Aragón of Science, Technology and Innovation, received this Friday the Pilar Narvian 2023 prize awarded by the V Alcaniz Special Journalism Course, organized by La Comerca Communication Group.
After receiving the award from Mayor Miguel Ángel Esteván, Perla wished: “Scientific journalism has its place and time in the media and is truly necessary because it must understand the world.”
Sculptor from Alcañiz Jorge Egea designed this year’s statue, made of alabaster from Bajo Aragon. Lux omnia vincit (Light conquers all) is the chosen inscription.
With this award, the image of Pilar Narvión Royo is evaluated, the pioneering journalist of political and parliamentary information in our country, the second senior member of the Madrid Press Association and the first woman to dedicate herself to the information of Cortes.
The director of La Comarca, Eva Defior, recalls the experiences of Pilar Narvión in Alcañiz, which deeply marked her in the 20s and 30s of the last century. “Rather than a glass roof, Pilar Narvian had to overcome real concrete roofs.”
Narvion was the first woman to work for the Pueblo newspaper, where she became deputy director and wrote more than ten thousand articles. After breaking barriers as a reporter in Rome and Paris, he was one of the most famous parliamentary journalists of the late Franco regime and transition, including 23-F. Alcaniz’s favorite daughter, she received the Victor de la Cerna Award from the Journalists Association of Madrid.
Aragon and science
Pilar Perla and Marcos Ruiz, director of the Ágora science program on Aragón Radio, discussed how to communicate science from close quarters to bring science closer to the audience of news stations in Aragon. Perla “has always had support from the scientific community and the Government of Aragon to move forward Tercer Millenio, in which we want to move from everyday life to science.”
Ruiz encouraged “to be curious, to be interested in everything, to break stones to come up with interesting topics.” Ruiz, “The seven seasons of the Agora, through which more than three thousand guests have passed”, is a program on public radio in Aragon, in which “a daily story must be created, where all the contents of science can be included. , environment. or innovation”.
On the other hand, science popularizer and author Manuel Doharia and journalist Enrique Goberias review the evolution of communication in the field over the past four decades. Toharia was the promoter of Muy Interesante and the director of Conozer, he worked at TVE and was the Scientific Director of the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia. Coperias ran Muy Interesante until last year and now publishes on Elemento 21. In his extensive career, he has been awarded twenty national and international journalism awards.
The closing colloquium of the course focused on the relevance of Aragonese scientists’ challenges, difficulties, dreams and opportunities. Cancer researcher Alberto Jiménez, astrophysicist Ana Belon Grinón and Ignacio Águilo, a pioneering researcher in tuberculosis vaccines, participated. “I use vaccines to understand immunity and what the body uses to fight a disease,” Aguillo explained.
