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Maria Moors Cabot Prize winners announcedJuly 10, 2008 The Journalism School has announced the 2008 winners of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean. Celebrating its 70th anniversary as the oldest international award in journalism, the Cabot Prize honors journalists who have covered the Western Hemisphere and, through their reporting and editorial work, have furthered inter-American understanding. The 2008 gold medalists are: Carmen Aristegui Flores, anchor, CNN en Espanol and columnist for Reforma newspaper (Mexico); Michael Smith, senior writer, Bloomberg Markets magazine; Sam Quinones, general assignment reporter, Los Angeles Times; and Gustavo Sierra, international news editor, Clarìn newspaper (Argentina). “It's very appropriate that on the 70th anniversary of the Cabot Prizes, this year's winners exemplify the very qualities the founders of the awards had in mind — promoting understanding in the Americas, making the rest of the world understandable to the Americas, fighting for a free press and standing up to entrenched interests,” said Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Journalism School. |
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