Please Join COHA and the Newspaper Guild-CWA in

Honoring Semana Magazine and the Work of Its

Director, Mr. Alejandro Santos

Friday October 16 at 10 a.m. at COHA’s Offices, Suite 1C, 1250 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington D.C. 20036

On Friday, October 16, 2009, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) and The Newspaper Guild-CWA will present the inaugural bestowal of the Charles A. Perlik Jr. Award for Excellence in the Field of Print Journalism Throughout Latin America, to Mr. Alejandro Santos Rubino, director of Semana Magazine. Larry Birns, COHA Director, and Ricardo Gjivoje, a COHA Senior Research Fellow and former Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, together with Bernard Lunzer of the Newspaper Guild-CWA, represented by Melissa Nelson (the Director of Collective Bargaining), will host the award ceremony. Please join the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, The Newspaper Guild-CWA, Larry Birns, Ricardo Gjivoje, Melissa Nelson and our other distinguished guests in the conference room on Friday, October 16 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

The Charles A. Perlik, Jr. Award was created to honor the memory of the late Council on Hemispheric Affairs chairman, who also served as president of the Newspaper Guild. Mr. Perlik was a dedicated advocate for journalistic integrity, equality of opportunity, and freedom of the press throughout the hemisphere. He was the longest-serving president of the Newspaper Guild, a media union that currently has over 34,000 U.S. and Canadian members. Mr. Perlik became chairman of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in 1982. In keeping with the legacy of Chuck Perlik and his deep concern for the right of journalists to practice their profession unencumbered by threats or acts of intimidation, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs and The Newspaper Guild-CWA honor the courageous and distinguished professionalism in journalism so prominently demonstrated by Semana.

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