MIAMI, Florida (November 7, 2017)—The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today announced that Peruvian journalist Gustavo Mohme Seminario is to be the organization's president for the 2017-2018 period, following elections during its 73rd General Assembly held in Salt Lake City, Utah, in late October.
Mohme, editor of the Lima, Peru, daily newspaper La República, and who was IAPA president in 2014-2015, was elected to the office in succession to Matthew Sanders of Deseret Digital Media of Salt Lake City. The honorary life president is Scott Schurz of Herald Times, Bloomington, Indiana.
Also elected were María Elvira Domínguez, El País, Cali, Colombia, first vice president; Christopher Barnes, The Gleaner, Kingston, Jamaica, second vice president; José Roberto Dutriz, La Prensa Gráfica, San Salvador, El Salvador, treasurer, and Bartolomé Mitre, La Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina, secretary. The IAPA executive director is Ricardo Trotti.
The Executive Committee is chaired by Jorge Canahuati, Grupo OPSA, San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
The 20 directors who join the Board of Directors for the period 2017-2020 are: Emilio García Ruiz, The Washington Post, Washington, DC; Miguel Henrique Otero, El Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela; Marcela Noble Herrera, Clarín, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Luis Miguel De Bedout, El Colombiano, Medellín, Colombia; André Jungblut, Gazeta do Sul, Santa Cruz, Brazil; Alexandra Villoch, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida; Miguel Franjul, Listín Diario, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Juan Francisco Ealy Ortiz, El Universal, Mexico City, Mexico; Sergio Romero, El Tribuno, Salta, Argentina; Idania Chirinos, NTN24.com, Bogotá, Colombia; Claudia Gurisatti, RCNTV.com, Bogotá, Colombia; Ulilo Acevedo, Hoy Diario de Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia; Jaime Serdán, Associated Press, Dallas, Texas; Daniel Dessein, La Gaceta de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina; Leonor Mulero, El Nuevo Día, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Nelson J. Mezerhane, Diario Las Américas, Miami, Florida; Anders Gyllenhaal, McClatchy Newspapers, Washington, DC; Norberto Frigerio, Publirevistas, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Katherine Haine, Citymediapress, London, Ontario, and Alejandra Brambila, Reuters, Mexico City, Mexico.
The chairman of the Board of Governors of the Press Institute is Fabricio Altamirano, El Diario de Hoy, San Salvador, El Salvador. Silvia Miró Quesada, El Comercio, Lima, Peru, is president; André Jungblut, Gazeta do Sul, Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil, and Laura Puertas, Medcom, Panama City, Panam, vice presidents; Norberto Frigerio, Publirevistas, Buenos Aires, Argentina, treasurer and Jaime Ruiz Moreno, Novedades de Campeche, Campeche, Mexico, secretary.
The Scholarship Fund will be headed by María Catalina Saieh, Copesa, Santiago, Chile. Pamela Howard, Scripps Howard Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Leonor de Etchevehere, El Diario de Paraná, Paraná, Argentina, are vice presidents; Ildefonso Chávez Olveda, Pueblo de Chihuahua, Mexico, treasurer and Carlos Salinas, El Diario de Coahuila, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, secretary.
The Press Institute Advisory Council is made up of Rodolfo Dumas, La Tribuna, Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Leonor Etchevehere, El Diario de Paraná, Paraná, Argentina; Hugo Holmann, La Prensa, Managua, Nicaragua; Gonzalo Leaño Reyes, Zapopán, Guadalajara, México; Marcela Noble Herrera, Grupo Clarín, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Julia Rodríguez Larreta, El País, Montevideo, Uruguay; Nicolás Pérez, El Universo, Guayaquil, Ecuador; Adriano Tejada, Diario Libre, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Gilberto Urdaneta, El Regional de Zulia, Ojeda, Venezuela; Johnny Yataco, Washington Hispanic, Washington, DC, and Natalia Zuccolillo, ABC Color, Asunción, Paraguay.
The IAPA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the defense and promotion of freedom of the press and of expression in the Americas. It is made up of more than 1,300 publications from throughout the Western Hemisphere and is based in Miami, Florida.
