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JURY
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Members of the juror during meeting in Rio de Janeiro, June, 2007.
 Tina Rosenberg - The New York Times
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He is a leader writer for The New York Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for his book “The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts after Communism. In 1987 he was the first free-lance journalist to be awarded the MacArthur Fellowship Grant, which rewards talented individuals who show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work. He has published the book “Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America” (1991), as well as numerous contributions in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Affairs, Rolling Stone, The New Republic and other media. |
Marcelo Beraba - O Estado de S. Paulo
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He is the Director of Grupo Estado and of the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalists. He has been the ombudsman for the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, where he was also Editor of the Rio de Janeiro branch of the paper. He has also been Director of the Freedom of Expression Committee of Brazil’s National Newspapers Association.
He has been the Chief of the Political section and Editor in Chief of the Folha de S. Paulo, Executive Editor of Jornal do Brasil, in Río de Janeiro, and Executive Editor at TV Globo, in Sao Paulo. He directs the workshop “Fundamentos de Reportaje”.
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Gustavo Gorriti - Revista Caretas
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He has been a columnist for Caretas magazine and a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). He has been president of IPYS and has directed the program Periodistas, on Peruvian TV station Frecuencia Latina.
He has been Deputy Director of the newspaper La Prensa, in Panamá, and Co-director of the newspaper La Pepública, in Perú. He has directed numerous investigations for the Peruvian weekly magazine Caretas, among them the one that proved the links between drug trafficking and Vladimiro Montesinos. In 1990 he published “Sendero”, a book about the explosion of Maoist guerrilla during the eighties.
In 1992 he received the “Maria Moors Cabot Prize”, awarded by the University of Columbia, for his professional career. In 1998, in New York, the Committee to Protect Journalists awarded him the International Press Freedom Award, in appreciation for his courage in defending his investigations.
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Giannina Segnini - diario La Nación
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She is Editor in Chief of the newspaper La Nación, in Costa Rica. She supervises the newspaper’s sections on Investigations, Economy, Politics and Society and Services. Since 1999 she has been in charge of the coordination of the same newspaper’s Investigations Unit. Under her coordination, the Investigations Unit revealed the cases of corruption that sent two former Costa Rican presidents to prison.
She studied Collective Communications Sciences at the University of Costa Rica (UCR) and was Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (2001-2002). For the last ten years she has taught courses on investigative journalism and Computer-Assisted Journalism (CAJ) in Latin America, to several international organizations and media outlets. She is Investigative Journalism professor at the University of Costa Rica (UCR).
She has been awarded the “National Journalism Award Jorge Vargas Gené” three times by Costa Rica’s Journalists Association, and international awards such as the “Ortega y Gasset Prize”, IPYS and Transparency International’s “Prize to the Best Journalistic Investigation into a Case of Corruption", and a special mention of the "Maria Moors Cabot Prize".
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Gerardo Reyes - El Nuevo Herald, Miami
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He is a Colombian lawyer and journalist. He works for Miami newspaper El Nuevo Herald, covering Latin America and drug trafficking and corruption issues. He formerly worked for The Miami Herald, where he was the co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for an investigation into the electoral fraud in Miami, in 1999.
He has been editorial consultant of the magazines Semana, Gatopardo and Poder. He has been member and director of the prestigious Investigations Unit of the newspaper El Tiempo, of Bogotá. He is a member of Instituto Prensa y Sociedad’s Regional Council.
He is the author of the books “Investigative Journalism” (Periodismo de Investigación, Editorial Trillas, México 1996), “Made in Miami” (Planeta, Bogotá 2000), “Who to vote for?” (¿Por Quién Votar? Oveja Negra, 1982), “Don Julio Mario, Non-authorized Biography” (Don Julio Mario, biografía no autorizada), “Our Man in the DEA” (Nuestro Hombre en la DEA, Premio Planeta 2007), and co-author, as well as editor, of “The Owners of America” (Los Dueños de América).
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Michael Reid - The Economist (de licencia)
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He has been editor of The Economist’s section on the Americas since 1999. He was the magazine’s South American correspondent, based in Sao Paulo (1996-9), and the correspondent for México and Central America (1990-3). He was previously The Guardian’s correspondent in Perú and other Andean countries, and co-editor of The Peru Report, in Lima.
He writes a weekly column about Latin American current affairs for Valor Económico, in Brazil. He is author of “Peru: Paths to Poverty”, edited by London’s Latin American Bureau. He has just published the book “The forgotten continent. The Fight for Latin America’s Soul” (La lucha por el alma de América Latina, Bogotá, Norma, 2009).
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