Carl W. AckermanW
Carl W. Ackerman

Carl William Ackerman was an American journalist, author and educational administrator, the first dean of the Columbia School of Journalism. In 1919, as a correspondent of the Public Ledger of Philadelphia, he published the first excerpts of an English translation of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion but changed the text so that it appeared to be a Bolshevik tract.

Anderson Cooper 360°W
Anderson Cooper 360°

Anderson Cooper 360° is an American television news show on CNN and CNN International, presented by CNN journalist and news anchor Anderson Cooper.

Carmen AristeguiW
Carmen Aristegui

María del Carmen Aristegui Flores is a Mexican journalist and anchorwoman. She is widely regarded as one of Mexico's leading journalists and opinion leaders, and is best known for her critical investigations of the Mexican government. She is the anchor of the news program Aristegui on CNN en Español, and writes regularly for the opinion section of the periodical Reforma. In March 2015, she was illegally fired from MVS Radio 102.5 FM in Mexico City following a report on the conflict of interests by then Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, with a state contractor who would have built a millionaire residence for the mandatory and his family. She manages her own news website and hosts an online morning newscast, which is also broadcast on Grupo Radio Centro's XERC-FM.

Arizona Daily StarW
Arizona Daily Star

The Arizona Daily Star is the major morning daily newspaper that serves Tucson and surrounding districts of southern Arizona in the United States.

Austregésilo de AthaydeW
Austregésilo de Athayde

Austregésilo de Athayde was a writer and journalist born in Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brazil. His career includes being invited by Assis Chateaubriand to work at a top position at the Diários Associados. Later he became an emblematic figure for the Academia Brasileira de Letras as he served as President of the organization for 34 years.

David BelnapW
David Belnap

David Foster Belnap was an American journalist, foreign correspondent, director of Latin American press services for United Press International (UPI) and Foreign Desk Editor of the Los Angeles Times. He won the 1970 Ed Stout Award of the Overseas Press Club for his series of articles on political changes in Chile and the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University in 1973 for his Latin American coverage.

Jesús BlancornelasW
Jesús Blancornelas

J. Jesús Blancornelas was a Mexican journalist who co-founded the Tijuana-based Zeta magazine, known for its reporting on corruption and drug trafficking. His work encompassed an extensive research on how the drug industry influences local leaders and the police in the Mexican state of Baja California – topics frequently avoided by the rest of the Mexican media.

James Brooke (journalist)W
James Brooke (journalist)

James Bettner Brooke, an American journalist, is currently editor in chief of the Ukraine Business News, an English-language subscription news site based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Previously, he was editor in chief of the English-language Khmer Times newspaper, in Cambodia. From 2010 to 2014, he was the Russia/former Soviet Union Bureau Chief for Voice of America, based in Moscow. For VOA, he wrote Russia Watch, a weekly blog. Previously, he worked as Moscow Bureau Chief for Bloomberg. Before Bloomberg, he reported for 24 years for The New York Times, largely overseas in countries such as Japan, South Korea, Ivory Coast and Brazil.

Alejandro CarriónW
Alejandro Carrión

Alejandro Carrión Aguirre was a poet, novelist and journalist. He wrote the novel La espina (1959), the short story book La manzana dañada (1983), and numerous poetry books. As a journalist he published many of his articles under the pseudonym "Juan Sin Cielo." In 1956 he founded, along with Pedro Jorge Vera, the political magazine La Calle. He directed the literary magazine Letras del Ecuador. He received the Maria Moors Cabot prize (1961) from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as well as the Ecuadorian National Prize Premio Eugenio Espejo (1981) for his body of work. He was the nephew of Benjamín Carrión and Clodoveo Carrión.

Assis ChateaubriandW
Assis Chateaubriand

Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo, also nicknamed Chatô, was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, politician and diplomat. He was founder and director of the then main press chain of Brazil, the Diários Associados: 34 newspapers, 36 radio stations, 18 television stations, one news agency, one weekly magazine, one monthly magazine as well as many magazines for children.

Carlos DávilaW
Carlos Dávila

Carlos Gregorio Dávila Espinoza, was a Chilean political figure, journalist, Chairman of Government Junta of Chile in 1932, and Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1954 until his death in 1955.

Jorge Délano FrederickW
Jorge Délano Frederick

Jorge Délano Frederick was a Chilean cartoonist, screenwriter, film director, and actor. He was a caricaturist for La Nación, and he won the María Moors Cabot International Journalism Prize in 1952 and the National Prize for Journalism in 1964.

Karen DeYoungW
Karen DeYoung

Karen DeYoung is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, and is the associate editor for The Washington Post.

El Diario de El PasoW
El Diario de El Paso

The El Diario de El Paso is the primary Spanish-language newspaper for the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas. The paper was founded on May 16, 2005 by El Diario de Juárez. It originally started out as a Mexican newspaper circulated throughout Ciudad Juárez under the name Diario de Juárez. In 1982 Diario de Juárez entered into the El Paso business community by opening a small sales and circulation office. The company became incorporated in Texas as Editora Paso del Norte, Inc..

Gilberto DimensteinW
Gilberto Dimenstein

Gilberto Dimenstein was a Brazilian journalist. He was the publisher of Catraca Livre, appointed by Financial Times as one of the most inspiring applications of digital technology for social good. He also kept a column at CBN radio.

Alberto DinesW
Alberto Dines

Alberto Dines was a Brazilian journalist and writer. With a career spanning over five decades, Dines directed and launched several magazines and newspapers in Brazil and Portugal. He has taught journalism since 1963, and was a visiting professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism in 1974.

Agustín Edwards EastmanW
Agustín Edwards Eastman

Agustín Iván Edmundo Edwards Eastman was a Chilean newspaper publisher, and one of the richest people in Chile. He inherited his family's newspaper company El Mercurio SAP, which publishes Chile's leading national dailies El Mercurio and La Segunda among others, when his father died in 1956. He has been described as a media baron, and is known for his right-wing views. Throughout his time as publisher, he has used El Mercurio SAP's newspapers to influence public opinion in Chile, and he supported the 1973 coup d'état to oust socialist President Salvador Allende.

Agustín Edwards Mac-ClureW
Agustín Edwards Mac-Clure

Agustín Edwards Mac-Clure was a Chilean lawyer, diplomat and businessman, and founder of the Santiago edition of El Mercurio newspaper.

Mauricio FunesW
Mauricio Funes

Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena is a Salvadoran politician who was President of El Salvador from 1 June 2009 to 1 June 2014. He won the 2009 presidential election as the candidate of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) political party and took office on 1 June 2009. In July 2019, Funes became a naturalized citizen of Nicaragua, where he and his immediate family have been residing in exile since 2014.

Gustavo GorritiW
Gustavo Gorriti

Gustavo Andrés Gorriti Ellenbogen is a Peruvian journalist known for his reporting on rebel groups, government corruption, and drug trafficking. In 2011, the European Journalism Centre described him as having "been awarded more prizes than probably any other Peruvian journalist".

Andrew HeiskellW
Andrew Heiskell

Andrew Heiskell was chairman and CEO of Time Inc. (1960–1980), and also known for his philanthropy, for organizations including the New York Public Library. He was President of the Inter American Press Association (1961–1962).

Alberto IbargüenW
Alberto Ibargüen

Alberto Ibargüen is President and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami, Florida. He is the former publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald in Miami, Florida. Under his leadership, The Miami Herald won three Pulitzer Prizes; El Nuevo Herald won Spain's Ortega y Gasset Prize for excellence in journalism.

Stephen KinzerW
Stephen Kinzer

Stephen Kinzer is an American author, journalist and academic. A former New York Times correspondent, he has published several books, and writes for several newspapers and news agencies.

John S. KnightW
John S. Knight

John Shively Knight was an American newspaper publisher and editor based in Akron, Ohio.

La Nación (San José)W
La Nación (San José)

La Nación is a Costa Rican newspaper. It is published in San José, Costa Rica. The newspaper is a general purpose newspaper, and circulates daily all year long, except on three Costa Rican holidays, Good Friday and the following Saturday, and the day after the New Year's Day.

Carlos LacerdaW
Carlos Lacerda

Carlos Frederico Werneck de Lacerda was a Brazilian journalist and politician.

Alberto Lleras CamargoW
Alberto Lleras Camargo

Alberto Lleras Camargo was the 20th President of Colombia (1958–1962), and the 1st Secretary General of the Organization of American States (1948–1954). A journalist and liberal party politician, he also served as Minister of Government, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and as Minister of National Education in the administrations of President Alfonso López Pumarejo. He briefly attended the National University of Colombia in Bogotá to study politics, but dropped out later to pursue journalism.

Roberto MarinhoW
Roberto Marinho

Roberto Pisani Marinho was a Brazilian businessman who was the owner of media conglomerate Grupo Globo from 1925 to 2003, and during this period expanded the company from newspapers to radio and television.

Lucas Mendes (journalist)W
Lucas Mendes (journalist)

Lucas Mendes Campos is a Brazilian journalist and television presenter. He was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot Award, the oldest international journalism in the United States. In 2015 Campos was one of the 5 recipients of the award for outstanding reporting on the Americas because of his work dedicated to promoting dialogue and democracy in the Americas.

Roberto NobleW
Roberto Noble

Roberto Noble was an Argentine politician, journalist and publisher, perhaps best known for having founded Clarín, long Argentina's leading newsdaily and the most or second-most circulated in the Spanish-speaking world.

Victoria OcampoW
Victoria Ocampo

Victoria Ocampo was an Argentine writer and intellectual, described by Jorge Luis Borges as La mujer más argentina. Best known as an advocate for others and as publisher of the literary magazine Sur, she was also a writer and critic in her own right and one of the most prominent South American women of her time. Her sister Silvina Ocampo, also a writer, was married to Adolfo Bioy Casares.

Rómulo O'FarrillW
Rómulo O'Farrill

Rómulo O'Farrill II was a Mexican multi-millionaire businessman.

Andrés OppenheimerW
Andrés Oppenheimer

Andrés Oppenheimer is the editor and syndicated foreign affairs columnist with The Miami Herald, anchor of "Oppenheimer Presenta" on CNN En Español, and author of seven books, several of which have been published in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. His column, "The Oppenheimer Report," appears twice a week in The Miami Herald and more than 60 U.S. and international newspapers, including the Miami Herald, El Mundo of Spain, La Nación of Argentina, Reforma of Mexico, El Mercurio of Chile and El Comercio of Peru. He is the author of Saving the Americas and six other best-selling books, and is a regular political analyst with CNN en Español. His previous jobs at The Miami Herald included Mexico City bureau chief, foreign correspondent, and business writer. He previously worked for five years with The Associated Press in New York, and has contributed on a free-lance basis to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, the BBC, CBS’ “60 Minutes”, and El Pais of Spain.

Teodoro PetkoffW
Teodoro Petkoff

Teodoro Petkoff Malec was a Venezuelan politician, guerrilla, economist and journalist. One of Venezuela's most prominent politicians on the left, Petkoff began as a communist but gravitated toward liberalism in the 1990s. As Minister of Planning, he oversaw President Rafael Caldera's adoption of neoliberal economic policies in the mid-1990s. He was a prominent critic of President Hugo Chávez and was a candidate to run against him in the 2006 presidential election until he dropped out four months before the vote to support Manuel Rosales. Petkoff launched the newspaper Tal Cual in 2000 and remained its editor until his death in 2018.

Elena PoniatowskaW
Elena Poniatowska

Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska, known professionally as Elena Poniatowska is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered to be disenfranchised especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents, including her mother whose family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape the Second World War. When she was eighteen and without a university education, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns. Despite the lack of opportunity for women from the 1950s to the 1970s, she wrote about social and political issues in newspapers, books in both fiction and nonfiction form. Her best known work is La noche de Tlatelolco about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Although she turned down the title of Princess of Poland that she inherited through her father's royal family, and due to her leftwing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered to be "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.

Ángel Ramos (industrialist)W
Ángel Ramos (industrialist)

Ángel Ramos Torres was a Puerto Rican industrialist. He entered El Mundo during high school years as a typesetter, and went on to become the owner of the newspaper. He also founded Radio El Mundo and WKAQ-TV Telemundo.

Jorge Ramos (news anchor)W
Jorge Ramos (news anchor)

Jorge Gilberto Ramos Ávalos is a Mexican/American journalist and author. Regarded as the best-known Spanish-language news anchor in the United States of America, he has been referred to as "The Walter Cronkite of Latin America". Based in Miami, Florida, he anchors the Univision news television program Noticiero Univision, the Univision Sunday-morning political news program Al Punto, and the Fusion TV English-language program America with Jorge Ramos. He has covered five wars, and events ranging from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the War in Afghanistan.

Raúl RiveroW
Raúl Rivero

Raúl Rivero Castañeda is a Cuban poet, journalist, and dissident. Rivero was born in 1945 in Morón, Camagüey, in central Cuba.

Larry RohterW
Larry Rohter

William Lawrence Rohter, Jr., known as Larry Rohter, is an American journalist who was a South American bureau chief for The New York Times from 1999 to 2007. Previously, he was Caribbean and Latin American correspondent of the Times from 1994 to 1999. He now writes about cultural topics.

Hermenegildo SábatW
Hermenegildo Sábat

Hermenegildo Sábat was an Argentine-Uruguayan caricaturist.

Daniel Samper PizanoW
Daniel Samper Pizano

Daniel Samper Pizano is a Colombian lawyer, journalist, and prolific writer.

Yoani SánchezW
Yoani Sánchez

Yoani María Sánchez Cordero is a Cuban blogger who has achieved international fame and multiple international awards for her critical portrayal of life in Cuba under its current government.

Francisco Santos CalderónW
Francisco Santos Calderón

Francisco Santos Calderón, also known as Pacho Santos, is a Colombian politician and journalist. Santos was elected as Álvaro Uribe's running mate and became Vice President in the Colombian elections of 2002. Santos was re-elected in the presidential elections of 2006 for a second term once again with President Uribe to continue as Vice President of Colombia. His great-uncle Eduardo Santos was President of Colombia from 1938 to 1942 and the succeeding president of Colombia is his cousin. He is currently serving as Ambassador of Colombia to the United States. He presented his credentials to president Donald Trump on September 17, 2018.

Eduardo Santos MontejoW
Eduardo Santos Montejo

Eduardo Santos Montejo was a leading Colombian publisher and politician, active in the Colombian Liberal Party. He owned the prominent Bogotá newspaper El Tiempo, and served as the President of Colombia from August 1938 to August 1942, having been elected without opposition. He was born and died in Bogotá, and was the great-uncle of the 32nd president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos (2010–2018) and former Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos Calderon (2002–2010).

Giannina SegniniW
Giannina Segnini

Giannina Segnini Picado is a Costa Rican journalist recognized for having uncovered two political scandals that led to convictions of former presidents – the ICE-Alcatel and Caja-Fischel cases. She has become a distinguished figure in Latin America for her work in investigative and data journalism.

Bill Stewart (journalist)W
Bill Stewart (journalist)

William D. "Bill" Stewart was an American journalist with ABC News who was murdered by Nicaraguan government National Guard ("Guardia") forces while reporting on the Nicaraguan Revolution as Sandinista rebel forces were closing in on the capital city of Managua in 1979. Footage of his execution was repeatedly broadcast on network television, resulting in an uproar in the United States against the Somoza regime.

Jacobo TimermanW
Jacobo Timerman

Jacobo Timerman, was a Soviet-born Argentine publisher, journalist, and author, who is most noted for his confronting and reporting the atrocities of the Argentine military regime's Dirty War during a period of widespread repression in which an estimated 30,000 political prisoners were disappeared. He was persecuted, tortured and imprisoned by the Argentine junta in the late 1970s and was exiled in 1979 with his wife to Israel. He was widely honored for his work as a journalist and publisher.

Eduardo UlibarriW
Eduardo Ulibarri

Eduardo Ulibarri Bilbao is an award-winning Costa Rican journalist.

El UniversoW
El Universo

Diario El Universo is one of the largest daily newspapers in Ecuador. It was founded in 1921 and the first edition was published September 16 of the same year. Its headquarters are located in Guayaquil.

Arturo Uslar PietriW
Arturo Uslar Pietri

Arturo Uslar Pietri was a Venezuelan intellectual, historian, writer, television producer and politician.

Mario Vargas LlosaW
Mario Vargas Llosa

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist, college professor, and a former politician. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat."

Ramón José VelásquezW
Ramón José Velásquez

Ramón José Velásquez Mujica was a Venezuelan political figure. He served as President of Venezuela between 1993 and 1994. Velásquez was also a historian, journalist, and lawyer.