Call For Nominations Lasa Media Award

New Deadline: November 1, 2008

The Latin American Studies Association is pleased to announce its competition for the year 2009 LASA Media Awards for outstanding media coverage of Latin America.  These awards are made every eighteen months to recognize long-term journalistic contributions to analysis and public debate about Latin America in the United States and in Latin America, as well as breakthrough journalism.  Nominations are invited from LASA members and from journalists.  Journalists from both the print and electronic media are eligible.  The Committee will carefully review each nominee’s work and select an award recipient.  The award will be announced at the Award Ceremony of the LASA2009 business meeting, and the awardee will be publicly honored.  LASA may invite the awardee to submit materials for possible publication in the LASA Forum.  Recent recipients of the awards include:

Gustavo Gorriti of Caretas, Lima, Peru (1998)
Patricia Verdugo Aguirre of Conama, Chile and Diario 16, Spain (2000)
Guillermo González Uribe of Número, Bogotá (2001)
Eduardo Anguita, freelance journalist, Buenos Aires (2003)
Julio Scherer, journalist, Mexico (2004)
Maria Ester Gilio (2006)
Hollman Morris of Morris Producciones y Comunicaciones, Colombia (2007)

To make a nomination, please send one copy of the journalist’s portfolio of recent relevant work by November 1, 2008 to:

Milagros Pereyra-Rojas
LASA Executive Director
LASA Secretariat
416 Bellefield Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

E-mail: lasa@pitt.edu 

Members of the Media Award committee are: Christy Thornton, North American Congress on Latin America, Chair; Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archive/George Washington University; Fred Moehn, Stony Brook University; and Blanche Petrich, La Jornada, México.