By Camilo H. Smith
Four award-winning journalists working in Latin America joined Maria Moors Cabot Prize director Joshua Friedman in October for a panel discussion on the challenges of working as an independent journalist. The event was moderated by Sandro Mairata (J ´11). The panelists offered advice on thriving as a U.S. journalist abroad and the economic challenges such a venture entails. Accounts of covering government corruption, censorship and violence filled the discussion. These topics make up much of the work of the Cabot award winners on the panel, which included Norman Gall, Tyler Bridges (above), Joaquim Ibarz and Carlos Fernando Chamorro.The idea of sacrificing for your craft was repeated during the panel, especially from expat journalists such as Bridges and Gall. It’s a challenge that´s shaped by every reporter´s own path, said Bridges.
