MIAMI, Florida (October 13, 2008)—At its 64th General Assembly, held October 3 to 7 in Madrid, Spain, the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) chose its new slate of officers. Enrique Santos Calderón, editor of the newspaper El Tiempo, Bogotá, Colombia was elected president of the hemisphere free-press organization for a one-year term.
Accompanying Santos will be Scott C. Schurz, of the Herald-Times, Bloomington, Indiana, Honorary Life President; Alejandro J. Aguirre, Diario Las Américas, Miami, Florida, 1st Vice-Presidente; Gonzalo Marroquín, 2nd Vice-Presidente, Prensa Libre, Guatemala; Milton Coleman, The Washington Post, Washington, DC., treasurer; Elizabeth Ballantine, The Durango Herald, Durango, Colorado, secretary and Julio E. Muñoz, executive director.
Executive Committee chairman is Juan Luis Correa, La Estrella, El Siglo, Panama, Republic of Panama, and vice chairman is Earl Maucker, Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Elected to the Executive Committee are Alejandro J. Aguirre, Diario Las Américas, Miami, Florida; Fabricio Altamirano, El Diario de Hoy, San Salvador, El Salvador; Gilberto Arias, Panamá-América, Panama, Republic of Panama; Sidnei Basile, Grupo Abril, São Paulo, Brazil; Bruce Brugmann, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco, California; Jorge Canahuati Larach, La Prensa, San Pedro Sula, Honduras; Juan Francisco Ealy Ortiz, El Universal, México, DF; Felipe T. Edwards, La Segunda, Santiago, Chile; Luis A. Ferré, El Nuevo Día, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Anders Gyllenhaal, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida; Armando González Rodicio, La Nación, San José, Costa Rica; José Santiago Healy, Diario San Diego, Chula Vista, California; Earl Maucker, Sun-Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Bartolomé Mitre, La Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Robert Rivard, San Antonio Express-News, Texas and Edward Seaton, Seaton Newspapers, Manhattan, Kansas.
The IAPA Scholarship Fund, responsible for selecting recipients of international study scholarships, is chaired by Jayme Sirotsky, RBS, Porto Alegre, Brazil; joined by vice chairmen Carlos Salinas, El Diario de Coahuila, Saltillo, México; Fernando Berguido, La Prensa, Panama, Republic of Panama; Sidnei Basile, Grupo Abril, São Paulo, Brazil and Alfredo Jiménez de Sandi, Zacatecas en Imagen, México. Other members of the IAPA Scholarship Fund are the treasurer Silvia Miró Quesada, El Comercio, Lima, Perú; secretary Nélida Rajneri, Río Negro, General Roca, Argentina and the IAPA Executive Director Julio E. Muñoz.
The organization’s division responsible for professional training and advancement of journalists, the IAPA Press Institute, is headed by Chairman of the Board Vivian Anne Gittens, Nation News, Fontabelle, Barbados; President Gustavo Mohme, La República, Lima, Perú; Vice-Presidents Bruce Brugmann, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco, California and Francisco Fascetto, El Día, La Plata, Argentina; treasurer, Cristina Aby-Azar, The Wall Street Journal, New Jersey, New York; Secretary, Humberto Castelló, El Nuevo Herald, Miami, Florida. The Press Institute is also governed by an advisory council composed of Eduardo Alemán, El Carabobeño, Valencia, Venezuela; Rosental C. Alves, Texas University, Austin, Texas; James Bettinger, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Jaime Cámara Júnior, O Popular, Goiânia, Brazil; Alejandro Domínguez Wilson-Smith, La Nación, Asunción, Paraguay; José Roberto Dutriz, La Prensa Gráfica, San Salvador, El Salvador; Charles Eisendrath, Knight Fellowship, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Luis Alberto Ferré, El Nuevo Día, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Adriana Gamba, Río Negro, General Roca, Argentina; Gerardo García Gamboa, Novedades de Mérida, Mérida, Yucatán, México; Saturnino Herrero, Clarín, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Ernesto Kraiselburd, El Día, La Plata, Argentina; Gonzalo Leaño Reyes, Ocho Columnas, Zapopán, Jalisco, México; Stuart Loory, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Missouri; Guadalupe Mantilla, El Comercio, Quito, Ecuador; Jorge Andrés Saieh, COPESA, Santiago, Chile; Carlos Schaerer Jiménez, El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile and Aldo Zuccolillo M., ABC Color, Asunción, Paraguay. Also includes the executive director Julio E. Munoz and Press Institute director Ricardo Trotti.
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