Ana Inés Pais, a graduate of the Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism, was the only participant from Uruguay selected for the “Las Nuevas plumas” contest, organized by the Escuela de Periodismo Portátil and the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Her work, based on her final thesis project titled "Científicos de cuatro patas," was one of fifteen selected for publication in a book presented during the 2010 Guadalajara International Book Fair.
The purpose of the award is to discover and promote new voices in narrative journalism in Spanish and to foster independent narrative journalism. The initiative was joined by the magazines emeequis (Mexico), Etiqueta Negra (Peru), The Clinic ( Chile), SoHo (Colombia), and Brando (Argentina).