2008 Cabot Winners

• Carmen Aristegui
• Michael Smith
• Sam Quinones
• Gustavo Sierra
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Gustavo Sierra

2008 Maria Moors Cabot Prize winner

Gustavo Sierra is a journalist with 30 years experience in the profession. He has worked as a correspondent for several Argentine and international news organizations in London, New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile. He was a member of the team that initiated service of CNN en Español in Atlanta; White House correspondent for NBC-Canal de Noticias and CBS-Telenoticias; correspondent in Chile and Argentina for Univision—the first Hispanic U.S. television network; and editor of the Latin American service of the Associated Press in New York.

Today, Sierra is a war correspondent and editor and the international news editor for Clarín newspaper in Buenos Aires, Argentina, covering the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He is also the host of Babel del Siglo XXI, a TV news show for channel América24. His works can be seen in multimedia on Clarín.com.

Sierra is the author of two books, Kabul-Tehran-Baghdad, Stories from the Battlefield (Editorial Marea, 2006) and Under the Bombs (Ediciones B, 2003), as well as the documentary “The War after the War.”

He has received an Association of Foreign Correspondents in Spain award for his coverage of the Iraqi war (2003); the Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Journalism Award for his work "Argentine Wet Backs" (2004); the Wellington Foundation Prize with a jury chaired by Nobel prize winner Jose Saramago, for his production "The Aymara Rebellion" (2005); the Buenos Aires Herald Award for the best coverage of Argentine journalism in 2003; and he was selected as one of five "Argentine journalism figures of the last decade" in the category of Journalism Writing by Konex in 2007.

A graduate of the Masters in Communications program from Boston University, Sierra has been married for 26 years and has two daughters.