Edward Seaton

Heroes and Scoundrels (eBook, ePUB)

Five Decades of Flashpoints, Conflicts and Compromises Supporting Press Freedom in Latin America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The past five decades have witnessed a flourishing of democracy and press freedom in Latin America. When Edward Seaton began his crusade in the 1970s on behalf of journalists and newspapers throughout the region, 80 percent of the countries were without either. Today most countries have an independent press and credible elections.

While the change reflects a worldwide wave, the individuals portrayed here were in their countries the locomotives of change. These courageous, modern-thinking journalistic leaders risked in many cases their businesses and even their lives to tell truth about government and society. They faced Iberian traditions that made their accomplishments even more impressive.

Organized in this book by geographic regions, their histories are related one country at a time. The people in these stories are heroes who helped build their emerging democracies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Seaton Publishing Co., Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 275
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781733332958
• Artikelnr.: 59228408

Autorenporträt

Edward Seaton is former president of the Inter American Press Association and of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board for nine years, including as its chairman. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as chairman of Harvard's Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities. A graduate of Harvard, he studied on a Fulbright fellowship at Ecuador's Universidad Central. He serves as chairman of Seaton Publishing Company, Manhattan, Kansas. He received Columbia University's Maria Moors Cabot Award and is a knight-commander of the Order of Christopher Columbus, Dominican Republic.