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Four journalists reporting for The Associated Press; The Globe and Mail in Toronto; El Comercio, Lima, Peru's leading daily newspaper; and the Jamaican Gleaner newspaper group have been selected by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism to receive the 2000 Maria Moors Cabot Prizes for outstanding reporting on Latin America. In addition, a special citation will be awarded to Francisco Santos, a columnist living in exile who writes for Colombia's leading daily newspaper, El Tiempo.
Now, in their 62nd year, the Cabot awards are presented to reporters and editors who have reported on the Southern Hemisphere, and through their coverage demonstrated compassion and commitment to freedom of the press and inter-American understanding.
The Cabot Prizes will be presented September 27 at a ceremony on Columbia's campus, Broadway and 116th Street. This year's winners are:
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Eloy O. Aguilar, Mexico bureau chief of The Associated Press.
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Paul Knox, international affairs reporter for The Globe and Mail,Toronto.
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Ricardo Uceda, chief of the investigative unit for El Comercio, Lima, Peru's leading daily newspaper.
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Lloyd Williams, senior associate editor, The Gleaner newspapers, Kingston, Jamaica.
In addition, a special citation will be awarded to:
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Francisco Santos, a columnist who lives in exile and writes for El Tiempo, Colombia's leading newspaper.
Founded in 1938, (and first awarded in 1939) by the late Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston as a memorial to his wife, the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes are administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. They will be presented by Columbia President George Rupp and Journalism School Dean Tom Goldstein in a formal ceremony on Wednesday, September 27 at 7 p.m. in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library, at Broadway and 116th Street.
Alberto Ibargüen, publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, and Gustavo A. Cisneros, chairman and CEO of the Cisneros Group of Companies are serving as co-chairs of the event. For the second year in a row, the award ceremony will be held as a benefit to raise money for scholarships for international students.
"The School of Journalism has had an international perspective since its early years, and I am happy to say that our commitment to that vision has grown substantially in the past few years," said Tom Goldstein, dean of the Journalism School.
Each winner will receive a Cabot gold medal and an honorarium. With this year's awards, 225 prizes and 52 special citations will have been conferred on journalists from more than 30 countries.
The prizes, the oldest international awards in journalism, are awarded by the Trustees of Columbia on the recommendation of the dean of the Journalism School. An advisory committee of journalists and educators concerned with hemisphere affairs assists the dean. Nominations are also sought from news organizations and individuals throughout Latin and North America. The director of the prizes is Anne Nelson, who is also director of the International Division of the Journalism School and former executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
The recommendations for the winners and special citations are made with the advice and approval of the Advisory Committee on the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes. Members of the committee are: Dean Tom Goldstein; Anne Nelson; Rosental Calman Alves, Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of Texas in Austin; Don Bohning, Latin America and Caribbean correspondent for The Miami Herald; Peter Cleaves, member of the international AVINA Council, which supports sustainable development in Latin America; Robert Cox, assistant editor of The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., and former editor of the Buenos Aires Herald; John Dinges, assistant professor at the Journalism School and former editorial director of National Public Radio; Juan Enriquez-Cabot, a Mexican citizen and great-grandson of Maria Moors Cabot, who is affiliated with Harvard University; Claude Erbsen, vice president and director of World Services for The Associated Press; Linda Robinson, Latin America Bureau Chief for U.S. News & World Report who has recently been named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard; Mark Rosenberg, provost and executive vice-president for academic affairs at Florida International University; Edward Seaton, editor and publisher of The Manhattan (Kansas) Mercury, chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board and past president of the Inter American Press Association; and Geri Smith, Mexico Bureau Chief for Business Week. Six of the 12 members of the Cabot Prize Board have won the Cabot medal.
Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism was founded in 1912 and offers programs leading to a master's of science and a Ph.D. in journalism. The School also runs the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program in Economics and Business Journalism and the National Arts Journalism Program for working journalists. The School of Journalism administers some of the most prestigious prizes in journalism, including the Pulitzer Prizes; the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize; the National Magazine Awards; the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes; the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards in television and radio journalism; and the Alfred Eisenstaedt awards for magazine photography.
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