Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking journalists to discuss digital journalism at 5th Ibero-American Colloquium

Journalists, media executives, and scholars from Spain, Portugal and various countries throughout the Americas will gather Sunday, April 22, for the Fifth Ibero-American Colloquium on Digital Journalism, organized by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas.

The round-table event follows the 13th International Symposium on Online Journalism, taking place April 20-21 at the University of Texas at Austin. The objective is to generate a dialogue about the importance of harnessing new technologies available for the development of quality journalism.

During the colloquium, about 40 participants will review the state of digital media in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. One of the main presentations, “Semantic Integration of Journalistic Content – The Alexandria Platform Case,” will come from Daniela Bertocchi, a journalist for Editorial Abril (the largest magazine publisher in Latin America) and doctoral student at Universidade de São Paulo, and Elizabeth Saad Corrêa, full professor and research leader at University of São Paulo.

Also this year Hernán Guaracao, CEO of the newspaper Al Dia of Philadelphia and the portal PonteAldia.com will lead colloquium participants in a discussion about the situation of Spanish-language media in the United States.

Colloquium participants include:
Alexandre Neto, Diarios Associados
Amy Schmitz Weiss, San Diego State University
André Guarienti Almeida, Grupo Diário – Brazil
Angelica Peralta Ramos, La Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Anna Penido, Porvir, Brazil
Antonio Jiménez, Cronkite School of Journalism, Arizona State University
Benny Cohen, Diarios Associados, Brazil
Beth Saad, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Borja Echevarria, El Pais, Spain
Carlos E. Huertas, Consejo de Redacción/Colombia
Cecilia Alvear, UNITY Journalists of Color
Claudia E. Mendez-Arriaza, elPeriodico/Guatemala
Claudia Herrera, La Jornada, Mexico
Daniela Bertocchi, University of Sao Paulo / Editora ABRIL, Brazil
Donna DeCesare. University of Texas at Austin
Fatima Martinez, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Madrid, Spain
Fernanda Ezabella, Folha de Sao Paulo, Brazill
Francisco Esparza R., Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Gilberto Dimenstein, Catraca Livre, São Paulo
Hernán Guaracao, CEO, Al Dia, Philadelphia
Homero Gil de Zuniga, University of Texas at Austin
Joe Straubhaar, University of Texas at Austin
José Carrera, Univision
Luis Assardo, Universidad del Itsmo, Guatemala
Marcos Martinez Chacon, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Margarita Funes, La Prensa Gráfica, El Salvador
Margarita Torres, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
María Elena Fernandez, Universidad Del Istmo, Guatemala
Mariano Caceres, Small World Labs
Marion Strecker, UOL – Folha de S.Paulo
Marisa Treviño, Treviño TodaMedia
Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer
Nadia Venegas, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Pedro Doria, O Globo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Raquel Villarreal, Demand Media
Raul Juste Lores, Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil