10:30 a.m. |
WELCOMING REMARKS:
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Charlie Clements, Executive Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School |
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Stefanie Friedhoff, Special Projects Manager, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard |
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10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. |
SESSION I: Freedom of Expression in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks
General Assessment: Ricardo Trotti, Press Freedom Coordinator, Inter American Press Association
Round Table:
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Mónica Almeida, Editor, El Universo, Ecuador, 2009 Nieman Fellow |
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Fernando Berguido, Editor, La Prensa, Panama, 2012 Nieman Fellow |
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Boris Muñoz, Venezuelan Journalist, Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 2010 Nieman Fellow |
Moderator: June Erlick, Editor-in-Chief, ReVista, Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard |
12:15 - 1 p.m. |
LUNCH |
1 - 2:30 p.m. |
SESSION II: Journalism and the Media in Latin America: The Good, the Bad and the Powerful
General Assesment: Pablo Corral Vega, Constitutional Lawyer/Photojournalist, Ecuador, 2011 Nieman Fellow
Round Table:
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Claudia Méndez Arriaza, Editor/Staff Writer, El Periódico, and TV co-host “A las 8:45,” Guatemala, 2012 Nieman Fellow |
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Carlos Eduardo Huertas, Investigations Editor, Revista Semana, Colombia, 2012 Nieman Fellow |
Moderator: Jeffrey Seglin, Lecturer in Public Policy and Director, Communications Program, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School |
2:30 - 2:45 p.m. |
BREAK |
2:45 - 4:15 p.m. |
SESSION III: The Future of Information in Latin America: Power Struggles in a New Media Environment
General Assessment: Rosental Alves, Professor at the School of Journalism, the University of Texas at Austin & Director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, 1988 Nieman Fellow
Round Table:
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Graciela Mochkofsky, Co-Founder and Editor, el Puercoespín, Argentina, 2009 Nieman Fellow |
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Marcela Turati, Journalist and Author of “Fuego Cruzado” (Crossfire), Mexico |
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Juanita León, Founder and Editor, La Silla Vacia, Colombia, 2007 Nieman Fellow (via teleconference) |
Moderator: Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University |
4:15 - 4:30 p.m. |
CLOSING REMARKS:
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Leonardo Vivas, Coordinator, LATAM Initiative, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy |
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4:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
RECEPTION |