July 31, 2012
Columbia University today announced the 2012 winners of the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes for outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Now in its 74th year, the Cabot Prize is the oldest international award in journalism, and honors journalists who have covered the Western Hemisphere and, through their reporting and editorial work, have furthered inter-American understanding. The prizes are administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
The 2012 gold medalists are:
Teodoro Petkoff, editor, Tal Cual, Caracas, Venezuela
David Luhnow, The Wall Street Journal Latin American Bureau Chief, United States
Juan Forero, South America correspondent, Washington Post, National Public Radio/U.S.
Miguel Angel Bastenier, columnist-editor, El Pais, Madrid, Spain and professor, Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, Cartagena, Colombia.
A 2012 Maria Moors Cabot citation is awarded to Diario El Universo, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
“With journalism under financial, governmental and even physical assault in significant parts of the Americas, the large number of prize nominees this year and the outstanding quality of our winners speaks to the courage and resiliency of the region’s press,” said Columbia Journalism School Dean Nicholas Lemann.
Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger will present Maria Moors Cabot gold medals and $5,000 honoraria to the prizewinners, and a certificate to the citation honoree, at a dinner and ceremony on Thursday, October 25, on the University’s Morningside Heights campus.
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