The IAPA’s major meeting, to be held October 10-14, will not only focus on developments affecting freedom of the press but will also deal with other issues facing the news industry, such as the growing influence of Hispanics in the United States and the need to capture new readers.
The various panel discussions and series of five seminars to be held during the meeting will feature such topics as how to increase newspaper readership, with input from professors from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, presenting case studies showing how The Wall Street Journal of New York, El Nuevo Día of Puerto Rico and Prensa Libre of Guatemala, among others, have achieved success.
In addition to the seminars that will deal with such topics as the change in the demographic makeup of the United States and its impact on the news media there will be a teleconference on human rights, with the participation of a U.S. expert, reporters and correspondents from Brazil, Colombia, Cuba and Mexico.
As in previous years, the IAPA will present awards to journalists individually and collectively in recognition of their battle to uphold the principles of a free press in the Americas. The Venezuelan press will be awarded the organization’s highest honor, the IAPA Grand Prize for Press Freedom and there will be an honorary mention for the beleaguered Cuban press. Anthony Lewis, a columnist for The New York Times, will receive the Chapultepec Grand Prize for his distinguished work in defense of press freedom.
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