This year, the Kálmán Mikszáth Award was presented for the 17th time. This year Katalin Kondor, Szilárd Horváth, Tamás L. Kakuk, Attila Császár and Ákos Szilágyi were recognized.

In the PS video report, Ádám Varga asked the awardees to tell them what values ​​a "national" journalist should follow, and what do they say to colleagues working on the other side?

The event was jointly organized by the Lajos Batthyány Foundation and the Kálmán Mikszáth Cultural and Media Foundation. The award, established in 2006, is presented in recognition of outstanding journalistic and editorial activity in print and electronic media, as well as radio presenter work. Simon János, the president of the Kálmán Mikszáth Cultural and Media Foundation, said in his welcome speech: the foundation that carries conservative and Christian values ​​is worth nurturing. He added: Hungarians are those who undertake it, and not only those who were born in Hungary. The foundation endowed its award with these values:

Hungarian, national, Christian and conservative.

Journalist Katalin Kondor was the first among the awardees to be invited to the stage. In his eulogy, Tamás Fricz emphasized that Katalin Kondor deserved this award a long time ago, as she is an outstanding figure of conservative, bourgeois journalism. Katalin Kondor said in her speech:

I had a peaceful childhood, so much so that the three letters M were a point of pride in Debrecen, that we learned from them. They were Mikszáth, Móricz and Móra. At that time, they taught in such a way that their memory remained even after several decades. Their writings determined our later lives.

Szilárd Horváth, TV host and editor (M5), received an award. Political scientist Ervin Nagy emphasized in his eulogy that Szilárd Horváth is difficult to introduce. Not because of his fame, as he has been active in the media for more than 30 years, but because few people know that he is also the founder and director of a school. Few people also know that he is the initiator of further teacher training at the Hungarian Heritage Workshop, which you will hear a lot about in the future. He put it like this:

He firmly believes in completeness, in the whole, in the tiny details of rationality. His efforts speak to the past in the present and look to the future to come. And this is up to the individual. Serving this is the greatest possible humility that can be expected of a person.

Radio host and editor Tamás Kakuk L. also received an award at the event. The festive speech was delivered by Zoltán Ujhelyi, in which his colleagues' feedback about him greeted him:

Tamás is a well-mannered man with a very pleasant aura, a real gentleman, which you can hear in his voice. Everything comes through his voice as if it were natural, self-evident.

Attila Császár, MTVA television editor-presenter, gave his eulogy on audio recording by Ottó Gajdics. According to Otto Gajdics

for the nationally-minded, conservative-minded audience, it would be enough to say that you know, the Csaszi. For that, everyone would have a thousand and one stories that we wouldn't know, or wouldn't know as well, without it.

The eulogy of editor-reporter Ákos Szilágyi (New York Hungarian, Magyar Trikólór) was originally to be delivered by Zsolt Bayer, but due to his stay abroad, his writing could be heard in the voice of Ottó Gajdics. Zsolt Bayer wrote about how Ákos Szilágyi created a tradition from his dream. He drew attention to it:

One of the most unbearable qualities of my friend Ákos is his quiet, persistent, dogged stubbornness, the stubbornness with which he is able to realize his dream. This drives everyone crazy from time to time. And, of course, he smiles gently. And the end result is a wonderful, huge, Hungarian flag, as it marches majestically through the city and becomes a cockade in Heroes Square. That is all. This is Ákos .

The Kálmán Mikszáth Award is an award established in 2006, the purpose of which is to nurture the national, conservative, liberal journalistic traditions based on centuries-old Hungarian traditions, and to embrace civic values. It is operated by the Kálmán Mikszáth Cultural and Media Foundation.

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