Maria Moors Cabot prize

The Maria Moors Cabot Prizes are the oldest international awards in the field of journalism.^[1] They pick what the Trustees of Columbia University see as journalistic contributions to inter-American understanding.

Award

The prizes are 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.

Recipients

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. Medalists' news organizations receive a bronze plaque.

Ceremony

The winners are announced between May and July, and the prizes are presented by the President of Columbia University at an awards ceremony in the fall.

Prize winners

Year	Honorees	Country
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
	Maria 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	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
	Michele Montas-Dominique	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	J. Jesús Blancornelas	Mexico
	Edmundo Cruz Vílchez	Peru
	Andres 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	United Kingdom
	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 Castello 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 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 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	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 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 Stahlman	United States
	Tom Wallace	United States
1956	Carl 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
	Belarmino 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 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	Francisco 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	Uruguay
	Luis Mitre	Argentina
1941	Paulo Bittencourt	Brazil
	Sylvia Bittencourt	Brazil
	Carlos Dávila	Chile
	José Ignacio Rivero	Cuba
1940	Agustín Edwards	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

References

1. ^ "History of the Cabot Prize". Columbia University. http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/177-history-of-the-cabot-prize/178. Retrieved 20 November 2011. 

External links

• Information on the prizes at the Columbia Journalism School website