An IAPA mission visited Guatemala February 19-21 and met with President Otto Pérez Molina and other senior officials, members of Congress and heads of non-governmental organizations, including lawyers and journalists. At right, the meeting at the presidential office; (l. to r.): President Pérez Molina, from behind; Vice President Roxana Baldetti; Presidency Communications Secretary Erick Robles, and the members of the IAPA mission: regional vice chairman of the Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information José Roberto Dutriz, El Salvador; committee vice chairman Fernán Molinos, Panama; IAPA Press Freedom Director Ricardo Trotti; former IAPA presidents Edward Seaton, United States, and Danilo Arbilla, Uruguay, and Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information chairman Claudio Paolillo, Uruguay. Gonzalo Marroquín, former IAPA president and editor of the magazine Crónica, took part in some activities. At left, Paolillo speaks with Guatemalan reporters.

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In the English-speaking CaribbeanA unique colonial past and a refreshing natural beauty is the framework that Barbados offers us for this so special 2014 Midyear Meeting. The coral island, just a short distance from Venezuela, is full of surprises for the visitor. The Friday seminars program is first-rate and the social activities will offer a time of entertainment and friendship. Indeed, a magical place to renew our commitment to freedom of the press in the Americas. (Page 2)

BARBADOS IS ONE OF THE BEST JEWELS OF THE ANTILLES

Mission in Guatemala

EMERGENCYIN VENEZUELAVenezuela printed newspapers could be close to extinction. The crisis of the governmental blockage of foreign currency for the purchase of newsprint and supplies, which had already worsened according to the report on Venezuela presented last October to the Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information in Denver, Colorado, reached in the last six months an unsustainable point amid generalized protests against President Nicolás Maduro. (See report on Page 3)

Directors of the Venezuelan Press Bloc (l. to r.) Eduardo Alemán, 2nd vice president; Luisa Chiossone, general secretary; president David Natera and Miguel Henrique Otero, 1st vice president.

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9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Sources of New Revenue: Expanding Monetization Power of Videos. Media companies are mixing professional and user-generated video content to maximize exposure, increase audience engagement and optimize advertising revenues. Case study of the experience of Grupo Prisa in the deployment of the program Dale Al Play. Panelists: Juan Luis Alonso, Grupo Prisa, Madrid, Spain; Adrián Segovia, Diario AS, Madrid, Spain. Moderator: Fernán Molinos, La Prensa, Panama, Panamá. Needham’s Point, 1 Room

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Is the Web Page Becoming Obsolete? What Is The Future Of The Mobile? The standalone webpage as we know it might soon be a thing of the past. Solutions include an array of content enrichment strategies that create higher levels of audience engagement. Panelists: Diego Cobelo Rodríguez, Classora, Madrid, Spain; Rosario Henríquez, El Nuevo Día, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Moderator: Silvia Miró Quesada, El Comercio, Lima, Peru. Needham’s Point, 1 Room

SEMINARS IN BARBADOSFOUR SESSIONS WILL TAKE PLACE ON FRIDAY, APRIL 4

Along the path of history3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Strategies for the

Recovery of Classified Advertising. Media companies are developing online platforms to recapture the classifieds business with mobile applications, video ads, and a focus on the local businesses. Panelists: Marco Enríquez, Advernet, Madrid, Spain; Julio Bazán, Asociación Mexicana de Editores, Mexico City, Mexico. Moderator: Ernesto Kraiselburd, El Día, La Plata, Argentina. Needham’s Point,1 Room

4:30 – 5:30 p.m. New Trends in Online Advertising. Native Advertising and Programmatic Buying have become dominant topics in the digital marketing world. Media companies ponder these alternatives as part of their online advertising strategies. Panelists: Matthew Sanders, Deseret Digital Media, Salt Lake City, Utah; Xavier Rius, Netsonic, San Jose, Costa Rica. Moderator: Armando Castilla, Vanguardia, Saltillo, Mexico. Needham’s Point, 1 Room. n

Inside Bush Hill House

One of the places to visit in Barbados is the house where for a while there lived, in his youth, the first president of the United States, George Washington (1732-1799). The man who would come to be one of the Founding Fathers of the United States arrived in Barbados in 1751 with his brother Lawrence, ill with tuberculosis. This residence, known as Bush Hill House, is the only place where Washington lived outside of the United States. In 2011 it was designated by the UNESCO a World Heritage Site. It is located some 1,400 yards from the Hilton Barbados Resort, the venue of the Midyear Meeting. In 1997 President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary visited the residence and unveiled a plaque recognizing the site as a “friendship and goodwill” link between the two nations. Lawrence Washington was not cured in Barbados and died the following year, but that stay greatly influenced his half-brother George. The father of the two died when the future president was only 11 years old and Lawrence assumed the role of paternal model. It was he who advanced the career of his brother as leader in military affairs. n

• Harrison Cave. A cave with lakes and natural rock formations.

• The Baobad trees. The biggest of this African origin species are found in Bridgetown’s Queen’s Park.• Jacobean mansions. Barbados has two of the three mansions of the English architecture of the early 17th century that still exist in the Western Hemisphere. The other is in Virginia in the United States. One of them, open to the public, is St. Nicholas Abbey.• Morgan Lewis Windmill. A giant windmill used in grinding sugar.• The Bridgetown Synagogue. Some 300 Jews arrived in Barbados in the 17th century, fleeing from persecution in Brazil. This is their historic center.• Cannon Galore. The English left Barbados full of abandoned cannons. The oldest dates from 1620 and the newest from 1870. This museum recounts the history of the English presence through these weapons.• The Grapefruit. Scientific documentation dating from 1750 says that the first grapefruit hybrid was produced in Barbados in the 18th century. n

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During these past six months the murders have occurred of six journalists in the Americas (2 in Brazil, 2 in Honduras, 1 in Mexico and 1 in Colombia), into which it is being investigated whether they were connected to their work. The death of Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz in Mexico saddened local journalists and led to a group of members of the press, among them the IAPA Rapid Response Unit representative, traveling to the interior of the country to carry out an investigation the results of which are to be published shortly.

The constant denunciations of violations of press freedom in Guatemala in recent months led to an IAPA international delegation traveling to the Central American country in mid-February. In meetings with senior officials, representatives of the three branches of government, of civil associations and journalists the IAPA expressed concern at the new increase in violence against journalists and the climate of impunity and lack of protection. Greater effort and diligence in implementation of the Journalist Protection Program was called for, along with solving of four murders of journalists last year.

Given the increase in attacks and violence against journalists in Brazil the Congress has before it a bill to make crimes against members of the press federal offenses and the government is studying other measures for protection of the press. The IAPA for its part has urged media to adopt internal preventive actions to ensure their staffs’ safety.

While the IAPA welcomed advances in legal proceedings in the murders of Edinaldo

Filgueira in Brazil and Jean Leopold Dominique in Haiti it also expressed disapproval of the acquittal in Colombia of four people accused of having been involved in the January 3, 2002 murder of Orlando Sierra.

At the end of 2013 the balance of cases before the courts in Colombia and Mexico coming subject to statutes of limitations is negative. In only those two countries 17 crimes against journalists remained unpunished. The IAPA, however, continues contacting the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) concerning 29 unresolved cases submitted to it since 1997. Since October 2013 action has been taken before the IACHR regarding eight of these cases in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala. n

Impunity Committee remains on alert to violence against journalists SIX MURDERS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS AND 17 OTHER CASES REMAIN UNPUNISHED

The abduction and later murder of reporter Jiménez de la Cruz gave rise to numerous protests.

Progress was noted in the cases of Dominique in Haiti (above) and Filgueira in Brazil. But in Colombia four alleged instigators of the murder of the editor of La Patria in Manizales, Orlando Sierra, were freed.

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The Declaration of Chapultepec 20 years after it promulgation “continues as valid as ever,” according to the officers of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), who reaffirmed its relevance in a continent still beset by violations of freedom of the press and of expression.

On reaching a news anniversary of that act of March 11, 1994 at Chapultepec Castle in the Mexican capital the IAPA announced that it is to hold a series of activities in its commemoration. The first of these will be in Barbados April 4-7, where there will be discussion of the Declaration’s relevance as a document to preserve, promote and defend press freedom.

Other acts are planned for during the General Assembly that the organization will hold in Santiago, Chile, in October, and at regional meetings and webinars which will focus on application of its principles, essential for the public’s right to information and the strengthening of democracy.

In its preamble the Declaration, drawn up among former democratic presidents, Nobel Prize winners, leaders and journalists, declares that “Without freedom there can be no true order, stability and justice. And without freedom of expression there can be no freedom.” After recalling “those visionaries that made this document and its utility possible” IAPA President Elizabeth Ballantine, The Durango Herald, Durango, Colorado, said that “the relevance of the Declaration lies in that it commits us as journalists, but especially

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“And press freedom we have defended with passion, because we believe that for a democracy it a fundamental element, that is why I said to you that we did not hesitate in coming to this event, as we do not doubt in signing the Chapultepec commitment.”

Juan Manuel Santos President of Colombia

“It has become the most important point of reference on freedom of expression. Although it does not have level force it does have enormous authority.”

Santiago Cantón Former IACHR Executive Secretary

“We are committed to permanently seek the truth, to demand freedom and tolerance and to respect ethical standards and criteria in communication.” José Roberto Dutriz La Prensa Gráfica/ El Salvador

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as citizens, to defend and promote freedom of the press and of expression as priorities to accomplish the common good.”

The Declaration of Chapultepec contains 10 fundamental principles necessary for a free press to carry out its essential role in a democracy. It was approved during the Hemisphere Conference on Freedom of Expression in Mexico and since then adopted by heads of state, leaders, academics, students and members of the public of the Americas.

The chairman of the IAPA’s Chapultepec Committee, José Roberto Dutriz, La Prensa Gráfica, San Salvador, El Salvador, added that “the Declaration not only commits us to permanently seek the truth, demand freedom and tolerance, but also it commits us to respect ethical standards and criteria in communicating.”

The chairman of the Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information, Claudio Paolillo, Búsqueda, Montevideo, Uruguay, stressed that “the Declaration has become an essential yardstick to measure the levels of freedom and democracy that the countries enjoy, helping to create case law to guarantee individual rights and freedoms. n

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INTERNATIONAL HOMAGETO FEDERICO MAYOR ZARAGOZA

On March 10-13 there was held at the Social Communication and Journalism School of the Universidad de La Sabana university in Bogotá, Colombia, the 6th Meeting of Programs Accredited by the Latin American Journalism Education Accreditation Council (CLAEP) and, at the same time, the 1st Meeting of Students of Journalism Programs Accredited by CLAEP.

The theme of the meetings was “What I Traditional in Journalism In the Digital Age,” dealt with in presentations by professors and students in the three-day events. Other themes developed were the challenges of the new journalism, media that re-invent themselves, and new audiences.

Taking part in these activities were CLAEP president and former IAPA president Tony Pederson, vice president Alicia Casermeiro de Pereson, council member Aurelio Collado, and academic coordinator Susana Mitchell.n

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Those taking part in the meeting are photographed courtesy of the Universidad de La Sabana.

Julio E. Muñoz converses with former UNESCO Director General Federico Mayor Zaragoza.

EIAPA Executive Director Julio E. Muñoz attended the international symposium “UNESCO Relevance” held on February 3 in Paris, France, in celebration of the 80th anniversary for that organization’s former Director General, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, which had the participation of leading figures in politics, science and culture.

Muñoz took part in a panel discussion on the role of education and communication at the service of development chaired by François Gros, honorary secretary of the French Academy of Sciences, and made up, among others, of Michael Lakin, former director of UNESCO’s “Education for All Program”; Henri Lopes, former assistant director general for Culture and former Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, and Rumanian artist Sorin Dumitrescu, former assistant director general for Science. Another panel discussion, “The Culture of Peace,” was chaired by former United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. In his presentation Muñoz emphasized the role of UNESCO kin the fight against the new World Information Order and the impetus that Mayor Zaragoza has given it.

In the live presentations direct or taped support was given by UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova and former directors general Amadou Mahtar M’Bow (1974-1987) and Koïchiro Matsuura (1999-2009) and former President of Ireland Mary Robinson; former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan; former President of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardoso; former President of Senegal and Secretary General of La Francophinie Abdou Diouf; President of the now defunct Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev; former Prime Minister of Portugal Mario Soares, and 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine winner Luc Montagnier. n

Two campaigns of great impact on public opinion for coming out against the violence plaguing Venezuela were disseminated throughout the hemisphere at the initiative of newspapers and institutions belonging to the IAPA. Miami’s Diario Las Américas organized the distribution of information abut the oppression being faced in Venezuela, reaching several newspapers and other publications in Spanish and Portuguese. At the same time, under the leadership of the Colombian Association of Newspaper and News Media Editors (ANDIARIOS), the Grupo de Diarios América

group (GDA) and Periódicos Asociados Latinoamericanos (PAL) a similar campaign in just a few days spread to 80 media in the region that published a full page each day with news taken from Venezuelan papers. This initiative also intended to show the government in Caracas that the regional press will remain firm in defense of freedom of expression and the people’s right to receive information. In the poster below distributed by ANDIARIOS you can see the front pages of the participating newspapers. n

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MoMentos que estreMeceraM a VeneZuelaNos últimos dias, a Venezuela sofreu uma escalada de violência, com a repressão das forças do governo Nicolás Maduro a protestos populares. As imagens nesta página, divulgadas pelo Diário das Américas, publicação da Sociedade Interamericana de Imprensa (SIP), são mostras da vontade de um povo de não deixar seu destino ser arrebatado diante dos desmandos da repressão chavista. Em ordem cronológica, elas narram os confrontos no país caribenho.

1) 12 de fevereiro, Dia da Juventude, foi eleito para a “desobediência civil”. A escassez, a insegurança, o controle de preços, o controle do câmbio, além da vulnerabilidade dos direitos civis, foram os motivos que levaram a população às ruas.

2) As manifestações tiveram lugar em cidades como Caracas, Valencia, Mérida, Maracaibo, San Cristóbal, Barquisímeto, entre outras. Líderes da oposição levantaram a voz para destacar o espírito pacífico do protesto para rechaçar as políticas de Maduro e buscar uma alternativa ao atual governo.

3) O protesto chamado “A Rua é a Saída” reuniu, de forma pacífica e contundente, milhares de venezuela-nos em cada ponto de concentração. Quando a mani-festação estava prestes a se dissolver, os ativistas foram atacados em uma emboscada.

5) No monumento José Marti, em Caracas, vestido de branco e agarrado à bandeira venezuelana, o opositor Leopoldo López, preso por incitação aos protestos, anunciou: – Se minha prisão serve para o despertar de um povo, valerá a pena.Entregou-se, como havia prometido, à Guarda Nacional, “sem colocar ninguém em risco”.

4) A primeira vítima das manifestações em Caracas foi o estudante Bassil DaCosta, 19 anos. Atingido por um tiro, o jovem morreu apesar dos esforços de seus companheiros para transportá-lo a um hospital.

6) Tanques antimotim da Guarda Nacional e policiais arremeteram contra os manifestantes. Reportam-se repressão, abusos, mais de cem detidos e a morte de mais dois jovens. Um deles, Robert Redman, havia car-regado DaCosta em seus braços e morreria na noite de 12 de fevereiro.

7) As manifestações tomaram o país. Na ima-gem, um opositor levanta as mãos em frente à Polícia Bolivariana após ser alvo de gás lacrimogêneo em Caracas.

8) Jornadas de protes-tos em todo o país pro-vocam mais derramamen-to de sangue. A jovem Géminis Carmona, Miss Turismo 2013 da cidade de Carabobo, fica ferida à bala na cabeça. É levada de moto ao hospital mais próximo.

9) O padre José Palmar, líder religioso ex-chavista, sofre um desmaio após ser espancado na Praça República. Géminis Carmona morre no início da tarde. Familiares e amigos culpam o chavismo pelo assassinato.

10) Na madrugada de 20 de fevereiro, as manifesta-ções não cessam, tampouco a repressão. Mensagens de pessoas pedindo auxílio inundam as redes sociais. Denunciam-se tiroteios contra edifícios residenciais. Ratifica-se a privação de liberade de imprensa com a expulsão de jornalistas da CNN do país.

DOZENS OF NEWSPAPERS FORCED TO SHUT DOWNOn February 10 the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) expressed its support for a march called by press organizations in Venezuela to call on the government to provide newspapers with access to foreign currency needed to import newsprint and other production supplies. Dozens of papers had to shut down and others will do so in the immediate future, due to the fact they are not allowed to import newsprint, inks and other supplies not manufactured in the country.

The march was organized by the National Press Workers Union (SNTP). It will wind up outside the National Foreign Trade Center

(CENCOEX) in Caracas and will have the support of the National Journalists Guild (CNP) and print media companies workers.

According to estimates gathered by the press in inland Venezuela there have stopped printing on a temporary basis 10 newspapers since September 2013, of which five (El Sol de Maturín, Diario de Sucre, Antorcha, El Expreso and El Guayanés) were still out of circulation at the end of January. Another 29 media in the capital and in the interior of the country have reduced the number of pages and have stopped publishing their supplements and weekend magazines. n

Diario Las Américas of Miami prepared a graphic report on the most shocking happenings in Venezuela in February and, adapting them to the format of various newspapers participating through the IAPA, achieved the fact that more than 20 of the region’s leading papers echoed the difficulties facing the Venezuelan people. In the photo, a front page of Zero Hora, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

The editor of the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional, Miguel Henrique Otero, on March 18 accused the Venezuelan government of President Nicolás Maduro of applying a discriminatory treatment of his newspaper, which is facing the threat of shutdown dye to lack of newsprint for hits presses

Otero said that the discriminatory action against El Nacional violates the Constitution, the right to work of some 600 people and the right to freedom of information, as there continues to be denial of access to foreign currency for the importation of the primary product. He said that the newsprint inventories are at a critical point, estimating that the newspaper has a capacity to circulate only until May, being limited to an issue of just eight pages.

He said he had information that there will be arriving in Caracas a shipment of 4,500 tons of newsprint for the newspaper Últimas Noticias, which was recently purchased by a group close to the government.

Otero declared that his newspaper had complied with all the steps to obtain dollars required by the foreign exchange control in place for more than a decade and he stressed that he will not change his stance critical of the government. Otero was accompanied by the editor of El Impulso, which is also threatened with closure. Carlos Carmona said that his 110-year-old newspaper has had to resort to a newsprint for magazines that is 30%more expensive in order to circulate with just one section, given the impossibility of obtaining foreign currency for importation. n

According to an announcement by the chairman of the IAPA’s Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information, Claudio Paolillo, the Venezuela case will be one of the major discussions that the organization will have during its Midyear Meeting in Barbados.

March 7 - The precautionary measures ruled by a judge against the executives of the Venezuelan newspaper TalCual demonstrate, according to the IAPA, a strategy of governmental censorship within all the branches of government, with the aim of infringing freedom of expression and the people’s right to information. Paolillo said that “this act of censorship of an independent media outlet does not derive from a whim of a judge, but a governmental strategy that over more than a decade has demonstrated a pattern of effective censorship of traditional news media and in frank violation of the people’s rights to seek and receive information.”

March 6 - Consternation at multiple violations of the practice of journalism in a context of general repression of press freedom and criminalization of public protest, one of the forms of freedom of expression. The National Workers Union denounces the arrest of 78 journalists during coverage of the February 12 to March 3 protests. It added that 19 had their equipment seized by police and pro-government armed civilians.

February 24 - Condemnation of the news censorship applied by President Nicolás Maduro that is manifested in the hostile treatment national and foreign journalists and news media. The pressure and harassment of media and journalists since the protests began on February 12 had resulted in 61 cases of violations of freedom of expression, according to figures compiled by the National Journalists Guild, National Press Workers Union and the non-governmental organization Espacio Público. Concerning incidents against the official press Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) complained that the headquarters of this public TV channel was attacked with explosive devices and that in those attacks journalist Mayra Cienfuegos was shot at and injured.

Chronology of IAPA official press releases on Venezuela

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February 13 - - The IAPA said that the indefinite blockage of the TV channel NTN24 in Venezuela is a “gross censorship” by the government to silence all independent, informative or critical voices. National television channels abstained from showing pictures of the protests. These are bound by legal and administrative dispositions that do not allow them to broadcast acts of violence under threat of hefty fines and sanctions. President Maduro says that the measures seek to end the “yellow journalism” of violence and the “propaganda” against his regime.

February 10 - The IAPA expressed its support for a march called by press organizations in Venezuela to demand that the government grant newspapers access to foreign currency needed for the importation of newsprint and other production supplies. According to press reports from September 2013 to that date in inland Venezuela 10 newspapers had stopped printing. Another 29 media outlets in the country’s capital and interior have reduced the number of their pages and stopped publishing supplements and weekend magazines. Paolillo stressed that the obstacles to accessing foreign currency and permits to import newsprint and other supplies are part of an official strategy aimed at punishing independent media.

January 7 - The IAPA blamed the government of Venezuela for the potential shutdown of the newspaper El Impulso, prevented from importing newsprint and other supplies as part of an official strategy aimed at punishing independent media. The newspaper, Venezuela’s oldest that on January 1 celebrated its 110th anniversary, said that this situation could affect the quality of information and could be forced to have to halt its distribution.n

“We are concerned the situation in Venezuela, where complying with the duty of the news media to keep the population informed has become, in the view of the government, an act of opposition.”CLAUDIO PAOLILLO

De izq. a der., el director ejecutivo de la SIP, Julio E. Muñoz; el copresidente de la Comisión de Recaudación de Fondos de la SIP, Fabricio Altamirano; el presidente de la SIP (2010-2011), Gonzalo Marroquín; la directora de Comunicaciones de Avianca-Taca, Claudia Arenas Bianchi; Milton Coleman, presidente de la SIP (2011-2012) y el presidente de la Comisión de Asuntos Internacionales de la SIP, Jorge Canahuati.

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In November 2013 nearly 60 editors of female magazines from 15 countries met in Miami. Under the title “Female Magazines: The Luxury of Latin American Newspapers” it was the first presentation of the Press Institute on this subject and the response in terms of attendance was encouraging. In another unprecedented topic in the Institute programs some 30 journalists specializing in finance met in January 2014 in Panama for a seminar titled “World Trade: Challenge to Journalism” and in mid-March there was held in San Salvador, El Salvador, the annual seminar for news editors under the title of “Newsrooms, Audiences and Leaders of Digital Newspapers.” Some 80 people attended these two seminars, the majority of them editors of newspapers in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Peru, Panama, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, United States and Ecuador n

Press Institute Calendar

iN-PERSON-SEMINARS> Strategies and Tools For A Better Journalism in Social MediaGuatemala City, Guatemala/ May

> Narrative Journalist: A Key to Add ReadersMiami, Florida/ May 28,29,30

> Monetization of Digital PlatformsSanto Domingo, Dominican RepublicMay 5 and 6

> 8th Meeting of Popular Papers and Community MarketingBuenos Aires, Argentina / August

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> Journalists Coverage of World TradeJosep Bosch, WTO, Geneva, SwitzerlandMarch 21

> Audiovisual Content to Increase AudiencesFernando Golscher, Grupo Dutriz, El SalvadorMarch 27

> Advice for Blogging Successfully in NewspapersGuadalupe López, La Nación, ArgentinaApril 9

> Integration of Newsrooms at La Nación, Costa RicaJuan Pablo Ferrari, La Nación, Costa RicaApril 17

> The Time of Narrative JournalismDaniel Ulanovsky Sack, Clarín, ArgentinaApril 24

In Panama (l. to r.) Josep Bosch, spokesman of the World Trade Organizations; Fernán Molinos, sub director and executive editor of La Prensa, Panama, who is also the chairman of the Board of the IAPA Press Institute; Rolando Rodríguez, associate director of La Prensa, Panama, and Edwin Cabrera, director of information of Radio Panamá.

In San Salvador Eduard Ramos Soldevila, one of the seven presenters in the seminar “Integrated Newsrooms, Leaders and Audiences of Digital Newspapers” held in San Salvador, seen with the participants. The event had the support of the Grupo Dutriz group.

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On February 6 in the Dorado Room of the Yellow House, headquarters of Costa Rica’s Foreign Relations and Culture Ministry, Professor Claudio Grossman assumed the Presidency of the General Assembly of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIDH). He succeeded Sonia Picado. Grossman, a Chilean, is a law professor and dean of the American University Washington College of Law and Raymond Geraldson senior lecturer in International and Humanitarian Law. He is president of the United Nations Anti-Torture Committee, has been a member and chairman of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Commission’s rapporteur on the rights of indigenous populations, and rapporteur for the rights of women (1996-2000). n

GROSSMAN BECOMES IIDH PRESIDENT Aguiar: Corresponding

Academic MemberThe Board of Governors of the Hispano-American Royal Academy of Science, Arts and Letters unanimously elected as its Corresponding Academic Member Venezuelan jurist, professor and writer Asdrúbal Aguiar, who is a columnist for various news media in the Americas and Spain and a member of the Inter American Press Association’s Board of Directors. Aguiar, with a doctorate in law and a Corresponding Academic Member of the National Acadamies of Moral and Political Science and of Law and Social Science of Buenos Aires, has been a professor of International Law at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello university in Caracas for nearly four decades and recently in Buenos Aires. He will read his incorporation speech and receive the Royal Academy’s medal in a solemn ceremony to be held in Cádiz, Spain, on June 18. n

Professor Claudio Grossman

Dr. Asdrúbal Aguiar

The Journalism School of Florida International University (FIU) and FIU’s Center for Latin America and the Caribbean on March 27 held the 31st Annual Workshop for Reporters and Editors under the title “How Free Are The News Media In The Americas Today?” The event took place on the University of Miami’s Biscayne Bay campus.

Among the speakers were Raúl Reis, dean of the FIU Journalism School, and Carlos Lauria, of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), who opened the program with a presentation on the state of freedom of expression in the Americas.

One of the panel discussions, “Setting The Pace In In-Depth Reporting In Latin America And The Caribbean,” was moderated by IAPA Press Freedom Director Ricardo Trotti and had the participation of Carlos Dada of the digital newspaper El Faro of El Salvador; Frances Robles of The New York Times and Mario Diament, FIU professor, and Miami journalists

Tim Padgett and Claudia Gurisatti. The following panel discussion, “Legal and Ethical Challenges and Opportunities,” was moderated by Leonardo Ferreira of FIU and was made up of lawyers and journalists, among them Emilio Palacio, columnist with El Universo, Ecuador, exiled in the United States, along with John Virtue and Victor Uribe of FIU and Sergio Otálora of Diario Las Américas, Miami.

In the afternoon sessions Venezuelan jurist Asdrúbal Aguiar and Elizabeth Román of FIU gave the presentation “The Media and the Court of Final Recourse” Study Cases of the Inter-American Human Rights Court.”

Former IAPA president Alejandro J. Aguirre (2009-2010) and Leonardo Ferreira headed the workshop titled “The Impact of the Declaration of Chapultepec: A Retrospective On Its 20th Anniversary.” The moderator was lawyer Thomas Julin of the Hunton & Williams LLP firm. n

University workshop on press freedom

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Work has begun on preparations for the IAPA’s 70th General Assembly October 17-21 in Santiago, Chile. The venue will be the Hotel W, although the possibility has been raised of holding the opening ceremony and other meetings at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA), a United Nations entity

Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet is going to be invited to the opening ceremony and to add her signature to the Declaration of Chapultepec.

The Host Committee, made up of all the newspapers and other publications of the Consorcio Periodístico de Chile (COPESA) and El Mercurio, the oldest Spanish-language newspaper in circulation, founded in 1827, had already completed the first draft of activities and panel discussions for the meeting. Among prominent figures who have been invited, or will be, are writer and journalist Álvaro Vargas Llosa and Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression Catalina Botero. Among the scheduled social activities is a welcoming dinner at the

PROGAM FOR 70TH GENERAL ASSEMBLYIN CHILE NOW TAKING SHAPEFor fifth time that country is the venue of IAPA’s annual meeting

Model of the CopArtes Theater, an extraordinary project of cultural development to be inaugurated in mid 2014 in Santiago.

UPCOMING MEETINGS 2014

70th General AssemblySantiago, ChileOctober 17-21

2015Midyear Meeting

Panama City, PanamaDate and Hotel

T.B.A.

71st General AssemblyCharleston, South Carolina

Date and Hotel T.B.A.

ECLA (CEPAL in Spanish) is the United Nations entity responsible for promoting the region’s economic and social development. Its work is concentrated on the field of economic research. The Deputy Executive Secretary has been Mexican Alicia Bárcena Ibarra. From its headquarters in Santiago two sub-regional offices are coordinated – one for Central America based in Mexico City, created in 1951 by some leading economists such as Ifigenia Martínez, and the other for the countries of the Caribbean, located in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, since 1966.

CorpArtes Theater, to be inaugurated in May this year, another presentation at the Las Condes Municipal Theater and a tour of the vineyards on the outskirts of Santiago. The Chilean capital has been the venue of the IAPA General Assembly times – 1962, 1972, 1987 and 2000. Thus this will be the fifth occasion.

Keep informed about the development of the program of this 70th IAPA General Assembly which promises to be unforgettable. n

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