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Topic: Miscellaneous items
Date/Time: 7/10/2007 1:51:56 PM
Title: Maria Moors Cabot Prizes announced
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
Columbia U. news release

Graduate School of Journalism Announces Winners of 2007 Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Outstanding Reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean

New York, July 10, 2007—The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism today announced the 2007 winners of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean, honoring journalists who have covered the Western Hemisphere and, through their reporting and editorial work, have furthered inter-American understanding.

The 2007 winners are: Alfredo Corchado, Mexico bureau chief, the Dallas Morning News; Gary Marx, foreign correspondent, Chicago Tribune; Maria Teresa Ronderos, editorial advisor, Semana Magazine (Colombia); and Jose Vales, Latin American correspondent, El Universal (Mexico).

"This year, we had an especially lively and competitive field of nominees for the Cabot Prize," said Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Journalism School. "This is welcome and wonderful news for the Americas, a region which desperately needs the kind of professional, courageous, and enterprising journalism exemplified by our 2007 winners."

Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger will present the prizes at a dinner and ceremony on Tuesday, Oct. 9, on Columbia’s Morningside campus. Each prize winner will receive a medal and a $5,000 honorarium. News organizations that employ the winners will receive bronze plaques.

Alfredo Corchado, Mexico bureau chief of the Dallas Morning News, covers a deadly beat that scares off most other journalists—drug-related crime and violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, now considered one of the world’s most dangerous places to practice journalism. In this savage climate, Corchado has refused to back down, instead continuing to produce exclusive stories about drug dealers, police and government corruption, the epidemic disappearance of women, and the spread of organized crime among Mexican drug cartels into Dallas and Houston.

Gary Marx, Latin American correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, has been one of a small group of U.S. reporters working out of permanent bureaus the Cuban government allowed to be established there in the late 1990s. In February, after five years reporting from Havana, Marx was told by the Cuban government that his press credentials would not be renewed and he must leave the island. Their reason: His stories were too “negative.” But in the view of the Cabot Prize Board, Marx’s reporting was devoid of the ideological side-taking that often taints journalistic stories about Cuba. He was just telling the story of Cuba to his readers—the good and the bad—and telling it honestly and skillfully.

Maria Teresa Ronderos, editorial advisor at Semana Magazine of Colombia, is an exemplar of the highest standards of ethics, professionalism, and dogged reporting in another of the world’s most dangerous countries to practice journalism. Reporter, editor, teacher, and defender of press freedom, Ronderos has been a mentor to many young journalists in Colombia and a key player in fighting to restore peace and civil society to the country, which has been ravaged by drug-related violence.

Jose Vales, Latin American correspondent for El Universal of Mexico, provides readers in the Americas with a steady diet of stories about important Latin American issues and scoops about corruption and human rights abuses from his post in Buenos Aires. In 2000, Vales’ relentless investigative reporting led to the revelation that a notorious torturer during Argentina’s dirty war was hiding in plain sight in Mexico, leading to arrest and extradition to Spain in 2003.

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