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Awards and Opportunities

Ricardo Calderón feature

Knowing that investigations "have served to purge institutions, expose corruption and restore the dignity of victims is more than enough,” says Ricardo Calderón, winner of the Moors Cabot

Colombian journalist Ricardo Calderón was one of the winners of the 2020 Maria Moors Cabot Awards. His investigations have leaded to the removal from office, arrests and prosecutions of dozens of shady officials, and because of that his life has been in danger.

Patricia Campos Mello

'I had to walk with a bodyguard for awhile,' said Patrícia Campos Mello, winner of the Maria Moors Cabot 2020

Brazilian reporter Patricia Campos Mello was one of the winner of the 2020 Maria Moors Cabot. The Columbia Journalism School described Campos Mello as “a fearless investigative reporter.”

Carrie Kahn

NPR correspondent Carrie Kahn, winner of the 2020 Maria Moors Cabot, points to the importance of making “alliances with local journalists”

“It’s a great honor! I’m very amazed and humbled by the award, especially since it comes from my colleagues and peers in the region,” Carrie Kahn said.

Stephen Ferry

"I see my work as a photographer as analogous to forensic anthropology," said photojournalist Stephen Ferry, winner of the 2020 Maria Moors Cabot

Ferry, whose career spans more than three decades, is described as a photojournalist "with the patience of an anthropologist and great humanity" by the Columbia Journalism School.

The four winners of the Cabot Prize

2020 Maria Moors Cabot Prizes recognize reporters from Brazil, Colombia and the United States

Two investigative reporters, one independent photojournalist and a veteran public radio reporter have been named as recipients of the 2020 Maria Moors Cabot Prizes.

Boris Muñoz

Venezuelan journalist Boris Muñoz wins Cabot Prize and says Latin American journalism is living its best moment

It would be silly and a lie to say that I have not made mistakes. But the worst thing a journalist can do is believe that he knows something definitively.

Marcela Turati

‘We are a profession that has had to organize to resist,’ Mexican journalist Marcela Turati, Maria Moors Cabot Prize winner

Journalists arrived from the most dangerous states, and where we began to have contact and awareness of how dangerous it was to be a journalist in Mexico and in some regions.

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Apply now for fellowships at U.S. universities and take time to develop your own reporting project or research idea

We’ve compiled a list of well-known fellowships open to journalists around the world, and some in particular meant for Latin American professionals.

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Media outlets from Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela and U.S. bring home 2019 Gabo Awards

Reports published in media in Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela and the United States were selected as the best in the categories of Text, Coverage, Innovation and Image from 1,730 applications and 12 finalists.

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Cartoonist Pedro X. Molina on Nicaragua: 'Independent journalism has become one of the basic needs of the population'

About 60 independent journalists have gone into exile, which in a country as small as Nicaragua is an important number proportionally speaking.