Maria Moors Cabot Prizes

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The Maria Moors Cabot Prizes are the oldest international awards in the field of journalism.[1] They are presented each fall by the Trustees of Columbia University to journalists in the Western hemisphere who are viewed as having made a significant contributions to upholding freedom of the press in the Americas and Inter-American understanding. Since 2003, the prize can be awarded to an organization instead of an individual.[2]

## History

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The American Boston industrialist and philanthropist, Godfrey Lowell Cabot, who founded the Cabot Corporation and was also a major benefactor of both MIT and Harvard, where the general science library is named in his honor, established the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes in 1938, in memory of his wife.[2] The prizes have been awarded annually since 1939, by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, on recommendation of the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism and the Cabot Prize Board, which is composed of journalists and educators.

## Board

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The awards board consists of the following persons:

Tracy Wilkinson, from the Los Angeles Times where she covered the Iraq War, among others.

Carlos Dada, Salvadoran journalist, founder and director of El Faro. He won the Maria Moors Cabot Prize in 2011.

John Dinges, The Godfrey Lowell Cabot Professor of Journalism at Columbia University is an author and journalist specializing in Latin America. He received a Maria Moors Cabot Prizes medal in 1992.

Juan Enriquez Cabot, Authority on economic and political impacts of life sciences. Best-selling author; speaker; investor/co-founder in multiple start up companies; board member for both private and public companies/non-profits. Former founding Director of Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business School.

June Carolyn Erlick, editor-in-chief of ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America.

Gustavo Gorritti, Peruvian journalist, the founder of lDL Reporteros. He is a recipient of a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University and a winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize in 1992 and the FNPI Gabriel García Marquez award. Expert in Peruvian internal war and anti corruption investigation.

Carlos Lauría, Americas Program Coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Julia Preston, national correspondent for The New York Times. Preston received a Maria Moors Cabot Prize in 1997.

María Teresa Ronderos, Serves as Director of VerdadAbierta.com. Ronderos is an editorial advisor to Semana. She received the King of Spain Ibero-American Award in 1997 and received a Maria Moors Cabot Prize in 2007.

Paulo Sotero, director of the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.[3]

## Recipients

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Three to four medalists from the United States, Latin America, and Canada are selected each year. Prize winners receive the Cabot medal and a $5,000 honorarium, plus travel expenses to New York City and hotel accommodations for the presentation ceremony.

As of 2014, 273 Cabot gold medals and 56 special citations have been awarded to journalists from more than 30 countries in the Americas.[needs update][4]

Year | Honorees | Country

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2021  | Eliane Brum |  Brazil
Adela Navarro Bello |  Mexico
Mary Beth Sheridan |  United States
Adriana Zehbrauskas |  United States/ Brazil
Regina Martínez Pérez and The Cartel Project |  Honduras
Contracorriente |  Honduras
2020  | Ricardo Calderón Villegas |  Colombia
Patrícia Campos Mello |  Brazil
Stephen Ferry |  United States
Carrie Kahn |  United States
2019  | Angela Kocherga |  United States
Pedro Xavier Molina |  Nicaragua
Boris Muñoz |  United States
Marcela Turati |  Mexico
2018  | Hugo Alconada Mon |  Argentina
Jacqueline Charles |  United States
Graciela Mochkofsky |  United States
Fernando Rodrigues |  Brazil
Meridith Kohut |  United States
2017  | Martín Caparrós |  Argentina
Dorrit Harazim |  Brazil
Nick Miroff |  United States
Mimi Whitefield |  United States
2016  | Rodrigo Abd |  Peru
Rosental Alves |  United States
Margarita Martínez |  Colombia
Óscar Martínez |  El Salvador
Marina Walker Guevara and the Panama Papers Reporting Team  |  United States
2015  | Lucas Mendes |  Brazil
Raúl Peñaranda |  Bolivia
Simon Romero |  United States
Mark Stevenson |  United States
Ernesto Londoño |  United States
2014  | Frank Bajak |  United States
Paco Calderón |  Mexico
Giannina Segnini |  Costa Rica
Tracy Wilkinson |  United States
Tamoa Calzadilla |  Venezuela
Laura Weffer |  Venezuela
2013  | Jon Lee Anderson |  United States
Donna de Cesare |  United States
Mauri König |  Brazil
Alejandro Santos Rubino |  United States
2012  | Teodoro Petkoff |  Venezuela
Miguel Ángel Bastenier |  Colombia
Juan Forero |  United States
David Luhnow |  United States
El Universo |  Ecuador
2011  | Arizona Daily Star |  United States
El Diario de Juárez |  Mexico
Ríodoce |  Mexico
Carlos Dada |  El Salvador
Jean-Michel Leprince |  Canada
2010  | Tyler Bridges |  United States
Carlos Fernando Chamorro |  Nicaragua
Norman Gall |  United States
Joaquim Ibarz |  Spain
Signal FM radio station  |  Haiti
CNN and Anderson Cooper 360° |  United States
2009  | Anthony DePalma  |  United States
Christopher Hawley |  United States
Merval Pereira |  Brazil
Yoani Sánchez |  Cuba
2008  | Carmen Aristegui Flores |  Mexico
Sam Quiñones |  United States
Gustavo Sierra |  Argentina
Michael Smith |  United States
2007  | Alfredo Corchado |  Mexico
José Vales |  Mexico
María Teresa Ronderos |  Colombia
Gary T. Marx  |  United States
2006  | Mario Vargas Llosa |  Peru
Ginger Thompson  |  United States
José Hamilton Ribeiro |  Brazil
Matt Moffet |  United States
2005  | Miriam Leitão |  Brazil
Tim Padgett |  United States
Mabel Rehnfeldt |  Paraguay
S. Lynne Walker |  United States
La Nación |  Costa Rica
2004  | Gerardo Reyes (journalist) |  United States
Daniel Santoro |  Argentina
Elena Poniatowska |  Mexico
Joel Millman |  United States
Alberto Ibargüen |  United States
2003  | João Antônio Barros |  Brazil
Raúl Kraiselburd |  Argentina
Mac Margolis |  United States
Michael Reid |  United Kingdom
Sociedad de Periodistas Manuel Márquez Sterling |  Cuba
2002  | David C. Adams |  United States
Sergio Luis Carreras |  Argentina
Michèle Montas |  Haiti
Robert J. Rivard |  United States
2001  | Monica Gonzalez |  Chile
Jorge Ramos |  United States
Clóvis Rossi |  Brazil
Sebastian R. Rotella |  United States
2000  | Eloy O. Aguilar |  Mexico
Paul Knox |  Canada
Francisco Santos |  Colombia
Ricardo Uceda |  Peru
Lloyd Williams |  Jamaica
1999  | James McClatchy |  United States
Raúl Rivero |  Cuba
Linda Robinson |  United States
Juan Tamayo |  United States
Jorge Zepeda Patterson |  Mexico
1998  | Jesús Blancornelas |  Mexico
Edmundo Cruz Vílchez |  Peru
Andrés Oppenheimer |  United States
William Lawrence Rohter, Jr. |  United States
1997  | Gerardo Bedoya |  Colombia
José de Córdoba |  United States
Jorge Fontevecchia |  Argentina
Julia Preston |  United States
Enrique Santos Castillo |  Colombia
Hernando Santos Castillo |  Colombia
1996  | Dudley Althaus |  United States
Ramón Garza García |  Mexico
Timothy Jay Johnson |  United States
Eduardo Ulibarri |  Costa Rica
1995  | Roberto Eisenmann |  Panama
Douglas Farah |  United States
Canute James |  Jamaica
Geri Smith |  United States
José Zamora Marroquín |  Guatemala
1994  | James Brooke |  United States
Mauricio Funes |  El Salvador
Susan Meiselas |  United States
Oscar Serrat |  Argentina
1993  | Pamela Constable |  United States
Manuel de Dios |  United States
Edward Seaton |  United States
Patricia Verdugo |  Chile
1992  | Danilo Arbilla |  Uruguay
Sam Dillon |  United States
John Dinges |  United States
Gustavo Gorriti |  Peru
1991  | Ricardo Arnt |  Brazil
Gilberto Dimenstein |  Brazil
Otavio Frias Filho |  Brazil
Eduardo Gallardo |  Chile
Alejandro Junco de la Vega |  Mexico
1990  | Richard Boudreaux |  United States
Huascar Cajias Kauffman |  Bolivia
Elsie Etheart |  Haiti
Alma Guillermoprieto |  Mexico
Carlos Lins da Silva |  Brazil
Lucia Newman |  United States
1989  | Felipe López Caballero |  Colombia
Humberto Rubín Schvartzman |  Paraguay
Juan M. Vazquez |  United States
Arturo Villar |  United States
1988  | Nicholas Clark Asheshov |  Peru
Roberto Civita |  Brazil
Stephen Kinzer |  United States
Hermenegildo Sábat |  Argentina
1987  | Luis Camacho (posthumous)  |  Colombia
Guillermo Cano Isaza (posthumous)  |  Colombia
Raúl Echavarría Barrientos |  Colombia
Guy Gugliotta |  United States
Luis Levy |  Brazil
Roberto Muller |  Brazil
Paulo Sotero |  Brazil
1986  | Dario Arizmendi |  Colombia
Alfonso Chardy |  United States
Hugh O'Shaughnessy |  United Kingdom
Julio Rajneri |  Argentina
Guillermo Sánchez Borbón |  Panama
Gavin Scott |  United States
1985  | Shirley Christian |  United States
Dery Dyer |  Costa Rica
Richard Dyer |  Costa Rica
William H. Heath |  United States
Rafael Herrera |  Dominican Republic
Andrew Morrison |  Guyana
Aldo Zuccolillo |  Paraguay
1984  | William Buzenberg |  United States
Kenneth Gordon |  Trinidad and Tobago
John Hoagland (posthumous)  |  United States
Harold Hoyte |  Barbados
Alister Hughes |  Grenada
Cynthia Hughes |  Grenada
Frank Manitzas |  United States
1983  | Jack Fendell |  United States
Emilio Filippi |  Chile
Everett Martin |  United States
Marcel Neidergang |  France
1982  | Frances Grant |  United States
William R. Long |  United States
Daniel Samper |  Colombia
1981  | Karen DeYoung |  United States
Marlise Simons |  Netherlands
Stanley Swinton |  United States
Jacobo Timerman |  Argentina
1980  | Richard T. Baker |  United States
Guido Fernández |  Costa Rica
Penny Lernoux |  United States
Alan Riding |  United States
Bill Stewart (posthumous)  |  United States
1979  | Leslie Ashenheim |  Jamaica
Jerry Hannifin |  United States
Andrew Heiskell |  United States
Jeremiah O'Leary |  United States
Juan Zuleta Ferrer |  Colombia
1978  | Joseph Benham |  United States
Carlos Castelo Branco |  Brazil
Robert Cox |  Argentina
Carl Migdail |  United States
1977  | Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal |  Nicaragua
Jonathan Kandell |  United States
Joseph A. Taylor |  United States
Anita von Kahler Gumpert |  United States
1976  | Robert U. Brown |  United States
Bernard Diederich |  United States
Germán Ornes |  Dominican Republic
Jorge Remonda-Ruibal |  Argentina
1975  | Walter Everett (journalist) |  United States
Norman Ingrey |  Argentina
David Kraiselburd (posthumous)  |  Argentina
Sam Summerlin |  United States
Enrique Zileri Gibson |  Peru
1974  | Donald Bohning |  United States
William Montalbano |  United States
Fernando Pedreira |  Brazil
1973  | David F. Belnap |  United States
Donald Casey |  United States
Diana Julio de Massot |  Argentina
1972  | Pedro Beltrán |  Peru
Tom Steithorst |  United States
Arturo Uslar Pietri |  Venezuela
1971  | Juan Carlos Colombres (Landrú) |  Argentina
Georgie Anne Geyer |  United States
Julio Scherer García |  Mexico
1970  | Alberto Dines |  Brazil
John Goshko |  United States
John Harbron |  Canada
1969  | Alceu Amoroso Lima |  Brazil
Edward W. Barrett |  United States
George Beebe |  United States
Luis Gabriel Cano |  Colombia
1968  | Robert Bellerez |  United States
Alberto Gainza Paz |  Argentina
Guillermo Gutiérrez |  United States
Argentina Hills |  Puerto Rico
José Joaquin Salcedo |  Colombia
1967  | Peter Aldor |  Colombia
James S. Copley |  United States
James Goodsell |  United States
M.F. Nascimento Brito |  Brazil
Ramón J. Velásquez |  Venezuela
1966  | Alberto Cellario |  United States
Agustín Edwards Eastman |  Chile
Paul Kidd (journalist) |  Canada
1965  | Gesford Fine |  United States
Roberto Marinho |  Brazil
Victoria Ocampo |  Argentina
Paul Sanders |  United States
1964  | Hugo Fernández Artucio |  Uruguay
Bertram Johansson |  United States
Enrique Nores |  Argentina
Virginia Prewett |  United States
1963  | Germán Arciniegas |  Colombia
William Barlow |  United States
Jorge Fernández |  Ecuador
Juan de Onis |  United States
Juan Valmaggia |  Argentina
1962  | Raúl Fontaina |  Uruguay
John R. Herbert |  United States
Rodolfo Junco de la Vega |  Mexico
John Shively Knight |  United States
1961  | Alejandro Carrión |  Ecuador
Fernando Gómez Martínez |  Colombia
Albert Nevins |  United States
Rómulo O'Farrill |  Mexico
John T. O'Rourke |  United States
1960  | James Canel |  United States
José Dutriz, Jr. |  El Salvador
Rodolfo Luque |  Argentina
William M. Pepper, Jr. |  United States
Eduardo Santos |  Colombia
1959  | Ricardo Castro Beeche |  Costa Rica
Clement Hellyer |  United States
Juan A. Ramírez |  Uruguay
Tad Szulc |  United States
Hernane Tavares de Sá |  Brazil
1958  | Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta |  Mexico
Eduardo Cardenas |  United States
Jesús Hernández Chapellín |  Venezuela
Miguel Angel Quevedo |  Cuba
1957  | Paulo Bittencourt |  Brazil
Luis Franzini |  Uruguay
Harry W. Frantz |  United States
John Shively Knight |  United States
Miguel Lanz Duret |  Mexico
Carlos Mantilla |  Ecuador
Roberto Marinho |  Brazil
Guillermo Martínez Márquez |  Cuba
Herbert Moses |  Brazil
John T. O'Rourke |  United States
René Silva Espejo |  Chile
James Geddes Stahlman |  United States
Tom Wallace |  United States
1956  | Carl W. Ackerman |  United States
Jesús Alvarez del Castillo |  Mexico
Roberto García Peña |  Colombia
Herbert Matthews |  United States
David Torino |  Argentina
1955  | Pedro Beltrán |  Peru
Breno Caldas |  Brazil
John Oliver LaGorce |  United States
Roberto Noble |  Argentina
A. T. Steele |  United States
1954  | Gabriel Cano |  Colombia
Sidney Fletcher |  Jamaica
Danton Jobim |  Brazil
Carlos Ramirez MacGregor |  Venezuela
Lloyd Statton |  United States
1953  | Crede Clahoun |  United States
Carlos Lacerda |  Brazil
Ismael Pérez Castro |  Ecuador
Arturo Schaerer |  Paraguay
1952  | Antonio Arias Bernal |  Mexico
Austregésilo de Athayde |  Brazil
Jorge Délano Frederick (Coke) |  Chile
Jules Dubois |  United States
Juan B. Fernández |  Colombia
1951  | Elmano Cardim |  Brazil
Julio Garzón |  United States
Ramón León |  Venezuela
Francisco María Núñez |  Costa Rica
1950  | John Brogan |  United States
María Constanza Huergo |  Argentina
Jesús María Pellín |  Venezuela
Joshua Powers |  United States
Ángel Ramos |  Puerto Rico
1949  | Milton Bracker |  United States
Eduardo Rodriguez Larreta |  Uruguay
José Santiago Castillo |  Ecuador
1948  | Manuel Cineros Sánchez |  Peru
Joseph L. Jones |  United States
Orlando Ribeiro Dantas |  Brazil
Alfredo Silva-Carballo |  Chile
1947  | Carlos Aramayo |  Bolivia
Alberto Lleras Camargo |  Colombia
David Vela |  Guatemala
1946  | Grant Dexter |  Canada
Lee Hills |  United States
Miguel Lanz Duret |  Mexico
1945  | Assis Chateaubriand |  Brazil
Luis Teófilo Nuñez |  Venezuela
Tom Wallace |  United States
1944  | Carlos Mantilla Ortega |  Ecuador
Albert McGeachy |  Panama
Jorge Pinto |  El Salvador
1943  | Pedro Cue |  Cuba
Rodrigo de Llano |  Mexico
Edward Tomlinson |  United States
1942  | Lorenzo Batlle Pacheco |  Uruguay
Luis Mitre |  Argentina
1941  | Paulo Bittencourt |  Brazil
Sylvia de Arruda Botelho Bittencourt |  Brazil
Carlos Dávila |  Chile
José Ignacio Rivero |  Cuba
1940  | Agustín Edwards Mac Clure |  Chile
James Irving Miller |  United States
Enrique Santos Montejo |  Colombia
Rafael Heliodoro Valle |  Honduras
1939  | Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra |  Peru
José Santos Gollan |  Argentina

## Ceremony

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The winners of the award are announced between May and July, and the prizes are presented by the President of Columbia University each fall, at a ceremony in the rotunda of Low Memorial Library.

## Yoani Sánchez case

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In 2009, 34-year-old Cuban writer Yoani Sánchez became the first blogger to win the Maria Moors Cabot Prize. The award was given for her blog, Generación Y, which contained much criticism of the Cuban regime. Sánchez was denied an exit visa to travel to New York to receive her prize.[5]

## References

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1. ^ "History of the Cabot Prize". Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2011-04-12.
2. ^ a b "Cabot Prize". Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2016-01-16.
3. ^ "Cabot Prizes: Board of Judges". Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Archived from the original on 2012-12-21.
4. ^ "Past Maria Moors Cabot Prizes Winners:" (PDF). Columbia Journalism School. Jan 26, 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on Jun 2, 2023.
5. ^ Larry Rohter (October 17, 2009). "Yoani Sánchez: Virtually Outspoken in Cuba". The New York Times. Archived from the original on Jan 31, 2023.

## External links

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* Official website