The IAPA announces the list of winners of the 2011 awards for Excellence in Journalism. Distinguished journalist Robert Cox awarded IAPA Grand Prize for Press Freedom MIAMI, Florida (August 2, 2011) The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) announced today the winners of the annual awards made by the organization to encourage excellence in journalism and defense of freedom of expression throughout the Americas. This year the IAPA Grand Prize for Press Freedom was awarded to Robert Cox for his long career as a journalist and his courage in the defense of freedom of the press and of expression. The information was provided by Clemente Vivanco of Quito, Ecuador, newspaper La Hora, chairman of the IAPAs Awards Committee. 0
Hold in Venezuela forum on freedom of expression in the Americas Miami (September 14, 2009)Former President of Bolivia, Carlos Mesa, and of Peru, Alejandro Toledo, and former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda will address the Emergency Forum on Freedom of Expression which will review the major problems and current issues facing the practice of journalism in the Western Hemisphere in Venezuela this Friday, Sept. 18. Seventeen world and national press organizations are sponsoring the event.