Author: Mary A. Gardner
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477304118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has been a pioneer in the concept of an inter-American professional, independent, and self-sufficient pressure group that acts on its own initiative and subsists on its own resources. This study first traces the development of IAPA from the initial meeting in 1926 through the mid-1940’s, when a small group of dedicated Latin American and United States journalists began the fight to wrest the IAPA from the control of government lackeys and Communist agents. Previously scarce accounts of the early annual meetings, often noisy and disorganized and sometimes violent, give the reader an insight into the problems and animosities faced by the democratically oriented members. Mary A. Gardner then describes a reorganization in 1950, after which IAPA actively fought for the freedom of newspaper workers tyrannized by Latin American dictators, such as Argentina’s Perón, Colombia’s Rojas Pinilla, Cuba’s Batista, and the Dominican Republic’s Trujillo. Even while IAPA was fighting for freedom of the press it began several services for its member newspapers: It set up a circulation auditing service, created a scholarship fund, undertook a newsprint study, and established a technical center. It also began the administration of the Mergenthaler Awards—prizes awarded yearly to outstanding Latin American journalists. Gardner also analyzes the merits of IAPA, basing her conclusions on data obtained from her own observations, from letters written by others long associated with operations of the organization, and from interviews with Latin American and North American journalists. She concludes that IAPA apparently surmounted the barriers of nationalism, of cultural and political differences, and of personal prejudices, thus succeeding in its attempt to unite its members in the fight for freedom of the press and for the propagation of democracy in the hemisphere.
The Inter American Press Association
Author: Mary A. Gardner
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477304118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has been a pioneer in the concept of an inter-American professional, independent, and self-sufficient pressure group that acts on its own initiative and subsists on its own resources. This study first traces the development of IAPA from the initial meeting in 1926 through the mid-1940’s, when a small group of dedicated Latin American and United States journalists began the fight to wrest the IAPA from the control of government lackeys and Communist agents. Previously scarce accounts of the early annual meetings, often noisy and disorganized and sometimes violent, give the reader an insight into the problems and animosities faced by the democratically oriented members. Mary A. Gardner then describes a reorganization in 1950, after which IAPA actively fought for the freedom of newspaper workers tyrannized by Latin American dictators, such as Argentina’s Perón, Colombia’s Rojas Pinilla, Cuba’s Batista, and the Dominican Republic’s Trujillo. Even while IAPA was fighting for freedom of the press it began several services for its member newspapers: It set up a circulation auditing service, created a scholarship fund, undertook a newsprint study, and established a technical center. It also began the administration of the Mergenthaler Awards—prizes awarded yearly to outstanding Latin American journalists. Gardner also analyzes the merits of IAPA, basing her conclusions on data obtained from her own observations, from letters written by others long associated with operations of the organization, and from interviews with Latin American and North American journalists. She concludes that IAPA apparently surmounted the barriers of nationalism, of cultural and political differences, and of personal prejudices, thus succeeding in its attempt to unite its members in the fight for freedom of the press and for the propagation of democracy in the hemisphere.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477304118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has been a pioneer in the concept of an inter-American professional, independent, and self-sufficient pressure group that acts on its own initiative and subsists on its own resources. This study first traces the development of IAPA from the initial meeting in 1926 through the mid-1940’s, when a small group of dedicated Latin American and United States journalists began the fight to wrest the IAPA from the control of government lackeys and Communist agents. Previously scarce accounts of the early annual meetings, often noisy and disorganized and sometimes violent, give the reader an insight into the problems and animosities faced by the democratically oriented members. Mary A. Gardner then describes a reorganization in 1950, after which IAPA actively fought for the freedom of newspaper workers tyrannized by Latin American dictators, such as Argentina’s Perón, Colombia’s Rojas Pinilla, Cuba’s Batista, and the Dominican Republic’s Trujillo. Even while IAPA was fighting for freedom of the press it began several services for its member newspapers: It set up a circulation auditing service, created a scholarship fund, undertook a newsprint study, and established a technical center. It also began the administration of the Mergenthaler Awards—prizes awarded yearly to outstanding Latin American journalists. Gardner also analyzes the merits of IAPA, basing her conclusions on data obtained from her own observations, from letters written by others long associated with operations of the organization, and from interviews with Latin American and North American journalists. She concludes that IAPA apparently surmounted the barriers of nationalism, of cultural and political differences, and of personal prejudices, thus succeeding in its attempt to unite its members in the fight for freedom of the press and for the propagation of democracy in the hemisphere.
The Inter American Press Association and Its Fight for Freedom of the Press
Author: Mary A. Gardner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The Inter American Press Association: Its Fight for Freedom of the Press, 1926--1960
Author: Mary A. Gardner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781477304129
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781477304129
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Conclusions, Country-by-country Report and Resolutions of the Inter American Press Association Approved at the IAPA Midyear Meeting
Author: Inter-American Press Association. Midyear Meeting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Inter American Press Association: a Brief History
Author: Mary A. Gardner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Conclusions and Country-by-country Report of the Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information Approved by the Inter American Press Association at is Midyear Meeting
Author: Inter-American Press Association. Midyear Meeting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Charter, By-laws, and Rules
Author: Inter-American Press Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Report [to The] Inter American Press Association, XVIII General Assembly, Santiago, Chile, Oct., 1962
Author: Inter-American Press Association. Committee on Freedom of the Press
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Censorship
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Censorship
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
IAPA News
Author: Inter-American Press Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Centuries of Silence
Author: Leonardo Ferreira
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313383375
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The history of Latin American journalism is ultimately the story of a people who have been silenced over the centuries, primarily Native Americans, women, peasants, and the urban poor. This book seeks to correct the record propounded by most English-language surveys of Latin American journalism, which tend to neglect pre-Columbian forms of reporting, the ways in which technology has been used as a tool of colonization, and the Latin American conceptual foundations of a free press. Challenging the conventional notion of a free marketplace of ideas in a region plagued with serious problems of poverty, violence, propaganda, political intolerance, poor ethics, journalism education deficiencies, and media concentration in the hands of an elite, Ferreira debunks the myth of a free press in Latin America. The diffusion of colonial presses in the New World resulted in the imposition of a structural censorship with elements that remain to this day. They include ethnic and gender discrimination, technological elitism, state and religious authoritarianism, and ideological controls. Impoverished, afraid of crime and violence, and without access to an effective democracy, ordinary Latin Americans still live silenced by ruling actors that include a dominant and concentrated media. Thus, not only is the press not free in Latin America, but it is also itself an instrument of oppression.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313383375
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The history of Latin American journalism is ultimately the story of a people who have been silenced over the centuries, primarily Native Americans, women, peasants, and the urban poor. This book seeks to correct the record propounded by most English-language surveys of Latin American journalism, which tend to neglect pre-Columbian forms of reporting, the ways in which technology has been used as a tool of colonization, and the Latin American conceptual foundations of a free press. Challenging the conventional notion of a free marketplace of ideas in a region plagued with serious problems of poverty, violence, propaganda, political intolerance, poor ethics, journalism education deficiencies, and media concentration in the hands of an elite, Ferreira debunks the myth of a free press in Latin America. The diffusion of colonial presses in the New World resulted in the imposition of a structural censorship with elements that remain to this day. They include ethnic and gender discrimination, technological elitism, state and religious authoritarianism, and ideological controls. Impoverished, afraid of crime and violence, and without access to an effective democracy, ordinary Latin Americans still live silenced by ruling actors that include a dominant and concentrated media. Thus, not only is the press not free in Latin America, but it is also itself an instrument of oppression.