The Latin American Studies Association is pleased to
announce its competition for the year 2012 LASA Media Awards for outstanding
media coverage of Latin America. These awards are made at every LASA Congress
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 LASA2012 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, Colombia (2007)
Mario Osava, América Latina Inter Press Service (2009)
Carlos Dada, El Faro (2010)
To make a nomination, please send one copy of the journalist’s portfolio of recent relevant work
by July 15, 2011 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 Peter Hakim, Inter-American Dialogue, Chair; Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; and Graciela Mochkofsky, Revista Digital El Puerco Espín.