MIAMI, Florida (April 11, 2011)—The Board of Governors of the Scholarship Fund of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today announced the names of four journalists awarded 2011 scholarships for postgraduate studies.
The scholarship recipients are Kara Andrade of Oakland, California; Paula Cerutti of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Analía Lavín of Montevideo, Uruguay, and Lucio Vázquez of Cuernavaca, Mexico.
The IAPA each year offers scholarships for journalists from Latin America and the Caribbean to do postgraduate studies in the United States or Canada and journalists from the United States and Canada to study in Latin America. The award includes a financial stipend and airfare from country of origin. The scholarships are funded by special contributions from IAPA member newspapers.
The announcement was made during the IAPA’s recent Midyear Meeting in San Diego, California, by the chairman of the Scholarship Fund Board of Governors, Jorge Andrés Saieh, president of the Santiago, Chile, media COPESA, together with the Board’s treasurer, Silvia Miró Quesada of the Lima, Peru, newspaper El Comercio, and its secretary, Nélida Rajneri of Río Negro, General Roca, Argentina.
The IAPA Scholarship Fund, established in 1954, offers young journalists the experience of carrying out postgraduate studies outside their countries for one year, thus contributing to a better understanding among the nations of the Western Hemisphere.
