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IAPA elects new slate of officers for 2001-02 MIAMI, Florida (October 24, 2001) -The new president of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), Robert J. Cox, today announced the new officers of the hemisphere free-press organization who will work with him during his term of office ending in October 2002. Cox, assistant editor of The Post and Courier, Charleston, South Carolina, was elected president during the IAPA's 57th General Assembly held recently in Washington, D.C. He succeeds Danilo Arbilla, editor of the Montevideo, Uruguay, news weekly Búsqueda. Cox will be joined in his term of office by 1st Vice President Andrés García Gamboa, Novedades de Quintana Roo, Cancún, México and by the 2nd. Vice President Jack Fuller, Tribune Publishing Company. Treasurer is Earl Maucker, The Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Secretary, Robert J. Caldwell, The San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego, California; and Executive Director, Julio E. Muñoz. The Honorary Chairman of the Executive Committee is Robert U. Brown, Editor & Publisher, Nueva York; President, Diana Daniels, The Washington Post Company, Washington, D.C., and Vice President Danilo Arbilla, Búsqueda, Montevideo, Uruuguay. The President of the Scholarship Fund is Alejandro J. Aguirre, Diario Las Américas, Miami Florida; Vice-Chairmen, Rosario Arias de Galindo, El Panamá América, Panamá, Panamá; Francisco Montes, El Diario de Cuyo, San Juan, Argentina, and Paul K. Scripps, E.W. Scripps Company, San Diego, California. Treasurer, André Luis Jungblut, Gazeta do Sul, Santa Cruz do Sul, Brasil; Secretario, Bartolomé Mitre, La Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Executive Director Julio E. Muñoz. The Chairman of the Board of the Press Institute is Raúl E. Kraiselburd, El Día, La Plata, Argentina; President, Júlio C.F. de Mesquita, O Estado de S. Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Vice-Presidents, Eduardo Alemán, El Carabobeño, Valencia, Venezuela; Jaime Câmara Júnior, O Popular, Goiânia, Brasil; Bruce Brugmann, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco, California; José Santiago Healy, El Imparcial, Hermosillo, México; Roger Parkinson, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canadá; Bob Rivard, San Antonio Express-News, San Antonio, Texas. Treasurer, Aldo Zuccolillo, ABC Color, Asunción, Paraguay; Secretary, Luis Alberto Ferré, El Nuevo Día, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Executive Director, Julio E. Muñoz, and Director, Ricardo Trotti. The following are the presidents of the IAPA committees: Freedom of the Press and Information: Rafael Molina, Ahora, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; 1st. Vice Chairman, Jaime Câmara, Jr., O Popular, Goiânia, Brasil; 2nd. Vice Chairman, Roberto Romero, El Tribuno, Salta, Argentina. Awards: Saturnino Herrero Mitjans, Clarín, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 1st. Vice Chairman, Bob Rivard, San Antonio Express-News, Texas; 2nd. Vice Chairman, Eduardo Urueña, El Popular, Toronto, Canadá. Chapultepec: Alejo Miró Quesada Cisneros, El Comercio, Lima, Perú; Vice Chairman, James McClatchy, McClatchy Company, Sacramento, California. Finances: Jaime Mantilla Anderson, Diario
Hoy, Quito, Ecuador; 1st. Vice Chairman, Felipe T. Edwards, El Mercurio,
Santiago, Chile; 2nd. Vice Chairman, Argentina S. Hills, Angel Ramos Foundation,
San Juan, Puerto Rico. Future Sites: Bruce Brugmann, San Francisco Bay Guardian, California; Vice Chairman, Demócrito Dummar, Jornal O Povo, Fortaleza, Brasil. Impunity: Alberto Ibargüen, The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida; 1st. Vice Chairman, Gonzalo Marroquín, Prensa Libre, Guatemala. International Affairs: Horacio Aguirre, Diario Las Américas, Miami, Florida; 1st. Vice Chairman, Bartolomé Mitre, La Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Legal: Héctor Dávalos, Novedades de Acapulco, México; 1st. Vice Chairman, Antonio Ornes, El Nacional, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Membership (USA & Canadá): Scott C. Schurz, Hoosier Times, Inc., Bloomington, Indiana; 1st. Vice Chairman, Peter G. White, National Post (Southam Inc.), Toronto, Canada. Membership (Latin America & the Caribbean): Bartolomé Mitre, La Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 1st. Vice Chairman, Harold Hoyte, The Nations, Barbados. Membership (Orientation): Juan Luis Correa, La Prensa, Panamá, Rep. de Panamá; 1st. Vice Chairman, José Santiago Healy, El Imparcial, Hermosillo, México. Newspaper In Education: Roger Parkinson, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canadá; 1st. Vice Chairman, Elvira Calle de Antequeda, Diario Los Andes, Mendoza, Argentina Nominations: Danilo Arbilla, Búsqueda, Montevideo, Uruguay. Program: Andrés García Gamboa, Novedades de Quintana Roo, Cancún, México; Vice Chairman Raúl E. Kraiselburd, El Día, La Plata, Argentina; Oliver F. Clarke, The Daily Gleaner, Kingston, Jamaica. Inter - American: Jayme Sirotsky, RBS,
Porto Alegre, Brasil; Co-Chairmen, Horacio Aguirre, Diario Las Américas,
Miami, Florida; Luis Gabriel Cano. The Inter American Press Association is a non-profit
organization among whose objectives is the defense of freedom of expression
and of the press in the Americas, the protection and defense of the interests
of the press and journalism, the fostering of high standards of professionalism
and business conduct, the promotion of the exchange of ideas and information
leading to the technical and professional development of the press, and
the dissemination of the fundamental principles of a free society and individual
liberty.
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