APPRECIATION
WHEREAS
our Host Committee, chaired by José Santiago Healy Loera of El Imparcial,
and formed by Juan Francisco Ealy Ortiz of El Universal, Andrés García,
Novedades de Quintana Roo, Andrés García Lavín, Novedades
de Mérida, Juan Fernando Healy Loera, El Imparcial, Gonzalo Leaño
Reyes, Ocho Columnas, Luis Enrique Mercado, El Economista, Rómulo O´Farril,
Novedades Editores, and Alberto Salinas, El Diario de Coahuila, provided a
hospitable and friendly environment conducive to professional and social activities
WHEREAS
The Midyear Meeting received the generous support of the following organizations
which sponsored hospitality events and provided useful and informative material:
ABITIBI CONSOLIDATED, AEROMEXICO, AGENCIA DE NOTICIAS NOTIMEX, CEMEX, LANIX
COMPUTADORAS, INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES DE MONTERREY,
and PRODAPLAG
WHEREAS
The President of Mexico, Vicente Fox Quesada, and the First Lady, Martha Sahagún,
accepted the invitation of the Inter American Press Association to address
the members and their guests
WHEREAS
Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez attended the
meeting as a special guest and participated in an interesting narrative of
journalistic experience
WHEREAS
prominent experts on communications gave important seminars, such as José
Luis Figueroa (“Trends in Information Technologies”); Ignacio
Icaza (“How Technology Will Impact Readers: The Smart Newspaper and
Digital Journalism”); Oscar Romero (“The Digital Era in the Media”);
Enrique Haro, Javier Gómez Tagle Rangel (“Vision of Competitive
Mexico”); Gabriela Vargas gave a talk on “The Secrets of Communication”
WHEREAS
a number of important people participated on interesting panels, such as Luis
Enrique Mercado, Jorge Ramos and Ricardo Rocha (“Challenges for Journalism
in the Hemisphere”), Edward Seaton, Danilo Arbilla, Claudio Grossman,
Sergio Muñoz (“Ten Years Since the Declaration of Chapultepec”),
Luis Gabriel Cano, Bartolomé Mitre, Jaime Abello, Jack Fuller (“Training
and Quality of Journalists”); Alejo Miró Quesada, Roberto Rock,
María Marván Laborde and Juan Francisco Escobedo (“Transparency
and Access to Information and Mexico”)
WHEREAS
the Midyear Meeting was a resounding success
THE MIDYEAR MEETING OF THE IAPA RESOLVES
that the president, officers,
directors and members express their deepest gratitude and appreciation to
all who have contributed and provided support to this Midyear Meeting.
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