He has been distinguished with the XVIII International Journalism Award Julio Anguita Parrado, which recognizes the professional career of reporters in war zones. Segura has been informing of the Russian War in Ukraine since 2022. The jury members have valued that “it has covered the conflict since its inception and that it continues to narrate what is happening in this war, which lasts more than three years, in very complicated conditions and maintaining a very difficult informative rigor in these circumstances.” In addition, they have highlighted their “originality in approaches” and “respect for local culture.”
Cristian Segura was born in Barcelona in 1978 and graduated in journalism from the Ramon Llull University (Blanquerna URL). Between 2003 and 2010, he exercised as a correspondent for the newspaper Today in Berlin and in Beijing. He has collaborated in international economic magazines and media such as WE BUY, Mundo Deportivo o Catalunya Ràdio. He has been working for the country since 2014. Parallel to his journalistic task he has also written several books. In 2011 he won the Josep Pla de Narrative Prize with The rabbit’s lairwhich translated into Spanish as The rabbit burrow. He has also published the essays: Trip to Ussuri, Order people y The shadow of the ombú: story of a suicide.
The contest, organized by the Andalusian journalists union (SPA), is celebrated in memory of the photojournalist dead on April 7, 2003, when I covered the Iraq war. The prize seeks to recognize a “brilliant professional career and committed to the defense of human rights of journalists of any nationality, or of organizations or journalistic entities, which have carried out work in areas in war or special social violence.” It is endowed with 2,500 euros and a commemorative figure designed and carried out by the Córdoba jewelry school.
The jury, appointed by the executive of the Andalusian journalists union, has been composed of Trinidad Deiros Bronte, a journalist in the International section of the newspaper El País; Mario Saavedra, diplomatic correspondent and international affairs analyst at The newspaper from Spain, and Asunción Salvador, a journalist specialized in international information, which has developed an outstanding career in Wave Zero. Lorena Romero-Domínguez, doctor of journalism and professor at the Faculty of Communication at the University of Seville; Ana Anguita Parrado, which is part of the jury on behalf of the family, and Francisco Terrón Ibáñez, journalist and general secretary of the SPA, who acts as secretary of the jury, in voice, but without vote.
