Jordi Pérez Colomé (Barcelona, 1976), a journalist and professor in the UIC Faculty of Communication Sciences, won the iRedes Letras Enredadas award «for the clarity with which he writes and analyses international politics in his blog, obamaworld.es, as well as in his books».
The iRedes Letras Enredadas award began as a homage to Pedro de Miguel (1956-2007), the creator of the blog Letras Enredadas (Tangled Letters). In this edition, the award went to journalist Jordi Pérez Colomé (@jordipc), the author of six books (Un Estado y medio, Cómo escribir claro, La historia de tres campañas, El país esquizofrénico, En la campaña de Obama y Adiós, and Gongtan) and the Director of the cultural magazine El Ciervo. He works with the online news source eldiario.es and won the José Manuel Porquet Award for Digital Journalism in 2012. In his blog, obamaworld.es, he writes about Barack Obama, the United States and its influence around the world.
The jury who chose the winner of this year’s iRedes Letras Enredadas Award was made up of jury president Miguel Ángel Jimeno, a professor at the Universidad de Navarra; Juan Andrés Muñoz, the Head of Alternative Media at CNN en Español; the journalist and blogger Ander Izagirre; the university professor Beatriz Gómez; David Álvarez, a journalist for the Spanish newspaper ABC; Paco Sánchez, a columnist for the Spanish newspaper La Voz de Galicia; the university professor Javier Marrodán; and Leandro Pérez, the Co-Director of iRedes and the jury secretary.
The 2014 iRedes Awards will be given on Friday, 7 March 2014, during the closing ceremony of iRedes, the Fourth Ibero-American Social Networking Congress being held in Burgos, Spain.
