Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University
Thursday October 168 - 8:30 a.m. Check In; only registered guests admitted
8:30 - 9 a.m. Breakfast
9 - 9:45 a.m. Opening: Josh Friedman, Director International Students/Cabot Prizes
Welcome remarks: Nick Lemann, Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor, Columbia Journalism School
The Toll: Civil Society And Journalism Carlos Lauria, Americas Director, Committee to Protect Journalists
9:45 - 11:15 a.m. PANEL ONE: On the Frontlines - Mexico, United States
Ramon Cantú, Editor, El Mañana, Nuevo Laredo
Dudley Althaus, Mexico Bureau Chief, Houston Chronicle
Alfredo Quijano, Editor, Norte de Cuidad Juarez
Angela Kocherga, Mexico Bureau Chief, Belo Television
Mariana Estens Martinez, freelance reporter, Tijuana
Moderator: Joel Simon, Executive Director, Committee to Protect Journalists
11:15-11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. PANEL TWO: Covering Drugs and Corruption in the Americas
Alberto Islas Torres, CEO, Risk Evaluation
Dr. Denise Dresser, Political analyst, columnist
and professor, ITAM, Mexico DF
Alfredo Corchado, Mexico Bureau Chief, Dallas Morning News
David Adams, Latin American correspondent, St Petersburg Times
Jose DeCordoba, Senior Special Writer, Wall Street Journal
Moderator: Josh Friedman, Director International Students/Cabot Prizes
1 – 1:15 p.m. Break
1:15 – 2:30 p.m. Lunch
Remarks: Alejandro Junco de la Vega, Publisher, Grupo Reforma
2:30 – 4 p.m. PANEL THREE: Future Policy and Periodismo
Carmen Aristegui, News Anchor, CNN en Español, Mexico City; 2008 Cabot Medalist
Ramón Alberto Garza, and President, Montemedia Indigo Media,Monterrey Mexico
Dip. Gerardo Priego Tapia, Mexican Congressman (PAN), Chair of Special Commission on Attacks against Journalists and the Media
Paul Steiger, Editor-in-Chief, ProPublica; Chair, Committee to Protect Journalists
Ricardo Trotti, Press Freedom Director, Inter American Press Association
Matt Winkler, Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg News Panel
Moderator: Dr. John Coatsworth, Dean,
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia