To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Cabot Prizes, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism held two days of activities leading up to an awards dinner Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008 at Columbia's Low Library, where four journalists from Mexico, Argentina and the United States received gold medals for their coverage of the Americas.
The anniversary activities included:
Covering Societies Under Threat, a panel discussion with the four winners in the Lecture Hall of the Journalism School, co-sponsored by the Institute of Latin American Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia.
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Scared Silent: Mexico's Journalists Under Attack From Drug Mafias, a conference sponsored by the Knight Foundation at the Journalism School. The panel was comprised of journalists, academics and government officials from Mexico and the United States.
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A meeting with the 2008 Cabot medalists and foreign editors at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
And culminated with the 70th Annual Awards Dinner, held at the historic Low Library on the Columbia University Campus.
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