Student Pablo Aizpiri Villanueva has been awarded the Kazetariak – Deusto Prize for the best undergraduate final year dissertation in Communication and Journalism

The 2026 Basque Journalism Awards Ceremony, held on 4 November at the Sala BBK in Bilbao, hosted the presentation of the Kazetariak-Deusto Award for the Best Final-Year Dissertation in Communication and Journalism. The award, presented by the Basque Association of Journalists in collaboration with the University of Deusto’s Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, went to student Pablo Aizpiri Villanueva for his dissertation entitled «Estatu Terrorismoa hedabideetan: El País, El Mundo, Egin, El Diario Vasco eta Deia», supervised by Professor Eider Landaberea Abad, in which «he analyses the stance adopted and the discourse developed in response to state terrorism by various media outlets in the Basque Country and the Spanish state». The jury highlighted the «timely choice of topic» and the student’s «thorough and rigorous analysis of media discourse».

This is the third edition of the award, through which both organisations seek to recognise students’ hard work, talent, commitment to public service, journalistic rigour and creativity. It was open to students on the University of Deusto’s Communication degree programme who submitted their final-year dissertation as part of the programme during the 2025–2026 academic year, in either of the Basque Country’s two official languages, and achieved a mark of at least 9.

The student was presented with her diploma by Gorka Urrutia, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the University of Deusto, in the presence of Amaia Goikoetxea, President of the Basque Association of Journalists. 

Photos and Video from the 2026 Basque Journalism Awards Ceremony