Alberto Ibargüen
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Alberto Ibargüen is president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He is the former publisher of The Miami Herald and of El Nuevo Herald. During his tenure, The Herald won three Pulitzer Prizes and El Nuevo Herald won Spain’s Ortega y Gasset Prize for excellence in journalism.
He studied at Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Between college and law school, he served in the Peace Corps in Venezuela and Colombia. He practiced law in Hartford, Conn., until he joined The Hartford Courant, then Newsday in New York.
For his work to protect journalists in Latin America as part of the Inter American Press Association, Ibargüen received a Maria Moors Cabot citation from Columbia University, and George Washington University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters.
