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He was Editor of La Opinión, a spanish-language newspaper in Los Angeles that his father founded in 1926. He studied journalism at the University of Notre Dame. In 1976 he was ambassador of the United States in El Salvador. He was a member of the California Advisory Committee for the United States Civil Rights Commission.

Peruvian journalist, teacher, lawyer and general director of the newspaper El Comercio de Lima. Studies at universities in Lima, Paris and Madrid. Doctor in Literature and Art and university professor. His diary was confiscated during the military dictatorship and returned to the return of democracy. He died in 2011.

He was a journalistic executive, philanthropist and conservationist. Vice President of the Harte-Hanks consortium and editor of The Corpus Christi Caller-Times from 1962 until his retirement 25 years later. He was president of The San Angelo Standard-Times from 1952 to 1956. He died in 2011.

Argentine architect and director of La Prensa, Buenos Aires for 20 years. The military dictatorship closed and confiscated the newspaper and had to go into exile in Montevideo until the recovery of the newspaper, five years later. He received in 1996 the prize The Americas Foundation, in New York. He died at 90 in 2014.

Lawyer and nicaraguan journalist. He created the Diario Las Américas in 1953 in Miami, being his director for more than 50 years. Member and manager of countless civil organizations and an enthusiastic collaborator to the development of the IAPA. Doctor Honoris Causa of universities in Florida. He died in 2017 at 92 years old.

Business Administration and Journalism Studies at Columbia College of New York. He chaired the SIPSE group, which includes newspapers, radio and television stations in various mexican states. He was president of the International Broadcasting Association (AIR). The year 2007 passed away.

He was president of the E. W. Scripps Company, a media conglomerate founded by his grandfather that he expanded to radio and television. The University of Ohio awarded him a Doctorate Honoris Causa, recognizing his contribution to communications and fighting for press freedom. He died in 2007.

He served as president, chief operating officer and director of Cautus Networks Corporation. He pioneered in Venezuela several types of companies, including Venweb, the first search engine in the country. Former executive director and member of the board of directors of El Universal newspaper, Caracas.

He was managing editor and then associate editor of The Miami Herald. Previously and for 13 years he was the editor in chief of Boston University News. He helped found the World Press Freedom Committee (1976), of which he was its executive director and later president. He died at 80 years old.

Dominican journalist, champion of press freedom in the Americas. Director-Editor of El Caribe, of Santo Domingo. Exiled in Puerto Rico when persecuted by the dictatorship of Trujillo. Shortly before his death, after enduring a long illness, he had been appointed by the IAPA as Honorary Life President of the Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information.

When her husband dies, Mr. Angel Ramos, she presides over the El Mundo group of companies in Puerto Rico. In 1968 she received the María Moors Cabot Award. For almost 50 years she was president of the Angel Ramos Foundation. As a result of his second marriage, the only case in the history of the IAPA was presented in which both spouses have been presidents of the institution. She was the fiorst woman president of IAPA.

Journalist, lawyer and professor. He entered La Nación de Buenos Aires in the 20s, where he did his entire career. He started by biting cables from the news agencies and ended up being the deputy editor of the newspaper for two decades. He was one of the first presidents of the Asociación de Entidades Periodísticas de Argentina, ADEPA. (Association of Argentine Journalistic Entities). Considered in his time a "leader of generations of Argentine journalists".