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Topic: Miscellaneous items
Date/Time: 6/22/2006 4:30:53 PM
Title: Cabot Prize winners named
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
Press release
The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University Announces Winners of 2006 Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Outstanding Reporting on Latin America

New York, June 21, 2006 – The Graduate School of Journalism today announced the winners of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting on Latin America. The Cabot Prize honors journalists who have covered the Western Hemisphere and, through their reporting and editorial work, have demonstrated a commitment to freedom of the press and inter-American understanding.

This year’s winners are: Independent journalist and writer Mario Vargas Llosa; Ginger Thompson, Mexico City Bureau Chief for The New York Times; Jose Hamilton Ribeiro, Special Reporter for TV Globo, Brazil; and Matt Moffett, South American Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger will present the Cabot Prizes at a dinner and ceremony on Wednesday, October 11, at 7:00 p.m. in the rotunda of Low Memorial Library. Each prize winner will receive a Cabot medal and a $5,000 honorarium. News organizations that employ the winners receive bronze plaques.

"This year's winners exemplify the Cabot Prize standard – the highest level of professional and probing journalism in the pursuit of inter-American understanding – from sweeping commentary to grassroots reporting," said Nicholas Lemann, dean of the school. "The journalism school is proud of its 68-year history of awarding these prizes, and we applaud the winners that were selected this year."

The 2006 Cabot winners are described below.

Mario Vargas Llosa, independent journalist and author
Vargas Llosa, a world-renowned author, novelist, critic, essayist and thinker, has made a distinguished contribution to journalism. As a relentless print and broadcast reporter, careful crafter of words, and chronicler of human achievement and folly, Vargas Llosa has spent a lifetime defending democratic values and promoting inter-American understanding.

Ginger Thompson, Mexico City Bureau Chief, The New York Times
For nearly 15 years, Thompson, as The New York Times’ Mexico City Bureau Chief, has been indispensable reading for those who want to understand the intimate and sometimes painful relationship between the United States and its near neighbors of Mexico, Central America and Haiti.

José Hamilton Ribeiro, Special Reporter, TV Globo, Brazil
Ribeiro has become a role model for generations of young Brazilian journalists because of his unflagging energy and commitment to journalism he has shown in his 50-year career.

Matt Moffett, South America Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
Moffett has shown bravery, consistency, humor and excellence in nearly two decades of covering Latin America’s homes and crises, growth and stagnation.

Founded in 1938 by the late Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston as a memorial to his wife, the Maria Moors Cabot Prize is the oldest international award in journalism. The prize has been awarded 249 times, and 55 special citations have been conferred on journalists from more than 30 countries. The prizes are administered by the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University under the guidance of Josh Friedman, director of international programs at the school.

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