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Latin American Media Shows Their Strength

Friday 29. May 2015 - A delegation of nearly 100 Latin American media executives will be joining the upcoming World News Media Congress in Washington, D.C., reflecting the region's growing influence among the world's newspapers and news publishers.

The World News Media Congress, World Editors Forum, World Advertising Forum and World Media Policy Forum, to be held from 1 to 3 June at the Washington Hilton, are the annual global summit meetings of the world’s press.
The events are organized by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), which plans to open a Latin American representation in Mexico City later this year, and is welcoming increasing numbers of Latin American publishers and editors into its membership and management.
The list of media companies to be present in Washington reads like a who’s who of prominent Latin America media: Grupo Clarín, La Nación and Perfil from Argentina; Grupo Expansión from Mexico; El Tiempo and El Espectador from Colombia; Jornal O Globo, RBS Group and Estado de Sao Paulo from Brazil; COPESA from Chile; PRISA from Spain; Grupo OPSA from Honduras; GFR Media from Puerto Rico; and El Universo from Ecuador, amongst many others.
To reflect their growing presence and influence, WAN-IFRA has offered special rates for Latin American delegates, and has organised an exclusive Latin American lunch on 1 June to be addressed by WAN-IFRA President Tomas Brunegård. Full details are available through the conference website at http://wan-ifra.org/dc2015 or by contacting Rodrigo Bonilla, LATAM Manager, at rodrigo.bonilla@wan-ifra.org.
Publishers, CEOs, managing directors, chief editors and other senior newspaper and news publishing executives from more than 80 countries are expected in Washington for the events. There is still time to join them.
Latin America is also well represented on the programme. Speakers include: Leo Prieto, one of the region’s most innovative tech and media leaders and founder of FayerWayer, Betazeta Networks, Aardvark Labs, and ImageMaker Studios in Chile, Marta Gleich, Executive Editor of Zero Hora in Brazil: Daniel Dessein, Director of La Gaceta de Tucumán, President of the DYN news agency in Argentina and Vice President of the country’s newspaper association ADEPA; Marcelo Rech, Executive Director of Journalism at RBS Group in Brazil, and Carolina Rossini, Vice President for International Policy and Strategy at Public Knowledge in Brazil.
Mr Rech is also set to become the new President of the World Editors Forum, the organization within WAN-IFRA for chief editors and other senior newsroom executives.
At least seven WAN-IFRA Board members from the region will also be present in Washington: Ricardo Hepp, President of the Asociación Nacional de la Prensa (ANP) in Chile, Café Lindenberg, Director General of Rede Gazeta in Brazil, Daniel Dessein of Argentina, Jorge Rendo, President of Grupo Clarín in Argentina, Luis Miguel De Bedout, President of El Colombiano in Colombia, Jose Roberto Dutriz, Executive President of Grupo Dutriz in El Salvador, and César Pérez, publisher of El Universo and President of AEDEP, the Ecuador Association of Newspaper Publishers.
In addition to the Congress, WAN-IFRA is also organizer of Latin America’s premier digital news media event, Digital Media LATAM 15 to be held in Mexico City on 23 and 24 October.