Julio Anguita Parrado

Julio Anguita Parrado or Julio A. Parrado, as he often signed his articles (Córdoba, Spain, 3 January 1971 – Baghdad, Iraq, 7 April 2003), was a journalist and a Spanish war correspondent. He was the son of politician Julio Anguita González, and his mother, Antonia Rojas Parrado, was Deputy Mayor of the city of Córdoba. He was killed when an Iraqi missile hit him when he was in Baghdad covering the 2003 Iraq invasion.

Education and career

Julio Anguita Parrado studied journalism at the Complutense University. He worked at the newspaper until 1993 when he began working with El Mundo (Spain), joining the international section. He always wanted to live in New York, a fact that got him to be appointed as an attached correspondent of El Mundo. On 7 April 2003, he was south of Baghdad, about 15 miles from downtown, after crossing the country with troops from Kuwait. Since its inception the winners have been:

2007: Iraqi writer and journalist Eman Ahmad Jamás 2008: Colombian journalist Eduardo González Márquez (2008) 2009: Congolese journalist Azzuba Caddy 2010: Journalist and human rights advocate Monica Fernandez Barnabas (2010) 2011: Spanish photographer and journalist Gervasio Sánchez. 2012: Egyptian journalist Shahira Amin 2013: Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis