2007 Maria Moors Cabot Award Dinner

SEE AND HEAR THE WINNERS OF THE 2007 CABOT PRIZES FOR OUTSTANDING JOURNALISM ON LATIN AMERICA

(from left) Josh Friedman, Nicholas Lemann, Jose Ramon Vales, Gary Marx, Maria Teresa Ronderos, Alfredo Corchado, and Lee C Bollinger.
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In a ceremony at Low Library on October 9th, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger presented the 69th annual Maria Moors Cabot Prizes for outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean to a Colombian editor, a Buenos Aires-based foreign correspondent working for a Mexican newspaper, a Chicago journalist covering Cuba, and a Texas journalist covering drug related stories on the US-Mexican border.

See a slide show of the Cabot award ceremony

See a slide show of the Cabot award reception

Click on the following links to see and hear this year's Cabot prize recipients and read the citation accompanying each award:

Alfredo Corchado, Mexico bureau chief, The Dallas Morning News;
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Gary Marx, Latin America correspondent, Chicago Tribune;
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María Teresa Ronderos, ed. advisor, Semana Magazine (Colombia);
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José Ramón Vales, South America correspondent, El Universal (Mexico).
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Winners were recognized for their exceptional journalistic coverage of the Western Hemisphere and their significant contribution to inter-American understanding.

"For the past five years, I've enjoyed the privilege of meeting the inspirational recipients of this award," Bollinger said. "Their fearlessness in confronting power in order to report the truth snaps us out of complacency and reminds us of our own obligation to read, watch, listen and be informed of the world taking shape all around us."

During a four-day stay in New York, the winners met with editors at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, participated in a panel discussion hosted by The Journalism School and the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs; appeared in interviews on CNN en Español, NY1 en Español and Viva Voz, the flagship production of V-Me, the first national Spanish-language public television network The Cabot winners met with the Committee to Protect Journalists to help plan a stepped-up campaign against drug-related violence against journalists working along the Mexican-United States border.

Cabot Panel at SIPA

See and hear the Viva Voz feature on the Cabot winners.
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See a slide show of the Maria Moors Cabot and Institute of Latin Amerian Studies Panel