“A Changing Cuba and the US Media:
Getting In and Getting It Right”
Organizer: Ted Henken (Baruch College)
Moderator: Joe Torres (ABC News)
Friday, March 14, 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Proshansky Auditorium, The Graduate Center
Media Plenary Slideshow
About the Moderator
Joe Torres reports and anchors the weekend evening news on WABC-TV in New York. Joe is a full-fledged, purebred New Yorker. He earned a B.S. in Communications at SUNY Brockport. Joe joined the Eyewitness News team as a general assignment reporter in 1997. Two days a week Joe sets aside his reporter's pad and heads to the anchor desk. Each Saturday and Sunday Joe serves as the Co-Anchor of Eyewitness News This Weekend. Joe's distinctive storytelling ability garnered him a Peabody Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award for his reports on the world-changing events of September 11th. Joe also earned an Emmy Award for his coverage of the Greenpoint Gas Tank Implosions in 2001.
About the Panelists
 Emily Morris has been working for 12 years in the Economist Intelligence Unit's Latin America team. She writes regular Country Reports on political and economic developments in Cuba, as well as forecasts, risk assessments and comparative structural analysis. She also has responsibility for the development and oversight of the Economist Intelligence Unit's global Country Reports coverage. Before joining the Economist Intelligence Unit she was a lecturer in the Economics of Development at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies and the University of Sussex Institute for Development Studies.
 Soledad O’Brien is an anchor and special correspondent for CNN, focusing on hour-long documentaries and breaking news. O'Brien joined CNN in 2003 as co-anchor of American Morning, CNN's flagship morning program. Her coverage of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina won numerous awards, including a Peabody and a DuPont. She has won many other awards and recognitions. Her documentary on Martin Luther King's never-before-seen writings and diaries won her recognition in January, 2007. O'Brien won an Emmy for her work as anchor on Discovery Channel's Know Zone, and worked as a local reporter, and the Bureau Chief for KRON-TV in San Francisco from 1993-1996. She won a Gracie Award for reporting from Cyprus during the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, a Woman of Power Award in 2007 from the National Urban League, the NAACP President’s award in recognition of her humanitarian efforts and journalistic excellence. In April of 2008 she will receive the first annual “Soledad O’Brien Freedom’s Voice award which was created in her honor by Community Voices at the Morehouse School of Medicine. The award will honor mid-career professionals who serve as catalysts for social change within their fields.
Frances Robles covers Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic for the Miami Herald's World Desk. Since joining the Herald in 1993, she has covered higher education, crime, courts, Central America and was bureau chief in Bogotá, Colombia. A former John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University, she twice was the member of Pulitzer-Prize winning teams. The New York University graduate began her journalism career in 1990 at The Plain Dealer, in Cleveland, Ohio.
 Anthony DePalma was the first foreign correspondent of The New York Times to serve as bureau chief in both Mexico and Canada. Starting in 1993, he covered some of the most tumultuous events in modern Mexican history, including the Zapatista uprising, the assassination of the ruling party’s presidential candidate and the peso crisis. Mr. DePalma has reported from Cuba, Guatemala, Suriname, Guyana, and, during the Kosovo crisis, Montenegro and Albania. His book “Here: A Biography of the New American Continent,” was published in the United States and Canada. From 2000 to 2002, he was an international business correspondent for The Times. At The Times he also has held positions in the Metropolitan and National sections, and has recently written about the working class and the environment in New York City. In 2003, he was awarded a fellowship at Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Affairs, where he began work on his newest book “The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times.” DePalma teaches a graduate seminar, “Latin America and the Media” at Columbia University and NYU. In 2007 he was named a Hoover Media Fellow at Stanford University. He was nominated for a 2007 Emmy for his work in the television documentary “Toxic Legacy.”
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