The event is annual and usually held in Medellín. The Gabo Festival is organized by the Gabo Foundation, previously called the Foundation for a New Ibero-American Journalism, created by the journalist and novelist in 1995. Among the motives was a permanent concern of his for the profession: “To be a journalist you need a base culturally important, very practical and also very ethical”.
The festival this year coincides with the 40th anniversary of the Nobel Prize for Literature being awarded to Gabo, who overcame great works such as One Hundred Years of Solitude, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba and Love. in the time of cholera. García Márquez was a reporter, chronicler, correspondent, novelist extraordinaire and with a great interest in film scripts.
The festival starts this Friday and ends tomorrow. Among the speakers are some of the winners of the Gabo Award, the award promoted by the Festival. Others on the agenda include Mexico’s Juan Villoro and Carmen Aristegui, Nicaragua’s Sergio Ramirez, Venezuela’s Luz Meli Reyes, Argentina’s Leila Guerriero and Spain’s Maria Jesus Espinosa de los Monteros.
Exactly, yesterday the Mexican writer Juan Villoro received the Gabo Award 2022 Recognition of Excellence, the most important award along with awards in the categories Coverage, Text, Image, Audio and Photography. A total of 1,980 nominations were submitted and evaluated by 62 journalists from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
Villoro was recognized for his “inspiring combination of work and career”. The writer Sergio Ramírez emphasized the Mexican writer’s narrative relationship with Gabo’s magical realism and added that “for Villoro, the narration of real events admits the doubt and wit of the imaginary. Because the real often overwhelms the imagination.”
The agenda includes a talk by Villoro and Leila Guerriero titled “The Map of Curiosity”
There are conferences, seminars and talks that touch on the reality of journalism in the region, new technological platforms and the transcendence of Gabo. In the latter aspect are ‘García Márquez and the art of storytelling through art’ and ‘This was Gabo the journalist in Bogota’.
As for new forms of digital programming, they are “Native digital media: Is it possible to make quality, sustainable and innovative journalism in Latin America”, “New modes of narration: podcast”, “Podcast, a life of news for journalism’, ‘The Great Wave of Metaverses and What’s Coming in Journalism’ and ‘Immersive Narratives: Journalism Today and Google Web Stories’.
In the information problem itself is ‘How fake news is made: lies, disinformation and the real post’. In other aspects, the agenda includes “Investigative environmental journalism: the importance of networks and data management”, “Care, gender and human rights: good journalistic practices”, “The four paths of narrative journalism”, “Journalism in development in Latin American politics and social unrest’ and ‘Investigative journalism: how to follow the money trails’.
