The journalist Pedro Piqueras has been awarded by the Academy of Television and Audiovisual Sciences and Arts with the Jesús Hermida Award for Lifetime Achievement within the television world, the institution’s highest award.
The Academy Council has decided to unanimously award this award to the journalist and founder of the entity in a meeting held this Monday at the Casa de México Foundation in Spain.
This award, previously called a Whole Life, has been awarded on previous occasions to figures from the television world such as Miguel de la Quadra Salcedo, Antonio Mercero, Chicho Ibáñez Serrador, Josefina Molina, Matías Prats Sr., José de las Casas, Rosa María Calaf , Rosa María Mateo, José Ángel de la Casa, José María Íñigo, Laura Valenzuela and Mercedes Milá, among others.
Pedro Piqueras is one of the most recognized journalists in the country, with an extensive career in radio and television. Graduated in Journalism from the Complutense University, he began working in 1977 at Radio Exterior de España. He later moved to RNE, where he directed the weekend news and 24-hour news. In 1986 he began directing and presenting the two o’clock news programs on RNE-Radio 1. In 1988 he headed the second edition of Telediario on TVE.
In 1993 he joined Antena 3 to present and direct the 9:00 p.m. News. He left office in September 1996 to take charge of the current affairs program Public Mirror. In October 2004 he premiered the debate program Enfoque on La 2. Until the 2001/02 season he was in charge of hosting Noticias Fin de Semana on Antena 3, where he premiered in September 2002, and the morning magazine A plena luz. In the 2002 and 2003 season, and on the same network, he hosts the program Siete Días, Siete Noches.
He was director of Radio Nacional de España from May 2004 to January 2006, when he was appointed director of Informativos Telecinco and went on to present the network’s prime time news program until today.
In 2016, he was one of the moderators of the Four-Way Debate organized by the Television Academy between the candidates for the presidency of the Government Mariano Rajoy, Pedro Sánchez, Pablo Iglesias and Albert Rivera.
Throughout his professional career, Piqueras has been honored with prestigious awards, including an Ondas Award, three Golden Antennas, the Gold Medal of Castilla-La Mancha, the Award for Best Professional Career from the International Club of Press, the First Amendment Award from the Spanish Eisenhower Fellowship Association and the Vanity Fair Award for Journalist of the Year 2022, among others.
The Iris Awards, which celebrate this edition’s 25th year of history, will be presented on January 16 at the Gran Teatro Caixabank Príncipe Pío.
