Danilo Arbilla
Danilo Arbilla Frachia (born February 7, 1943 in Casupá , Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan journalist .
From 1963 to 1981 Arbilla, who also appeared as a television and radio journalist, worked for the newspapers Hechos , El Diario , La Mañana , Correo de los Viernes and Opinar , among others . Between 1984 and 1989 he co-hosted the Prioridad program on Canal 10 . Arbilla was also the founder and president of the Club de Prensa Extranjera . In 1992 he was awarded the María Moors Cabot Prize of the Escuela Superior de Periodismo at Columbia University . In 1998 he took over the position of journalistic director at the weekly newspaper Búsqueda , for which he previously worked as editor-in-chief, publisher and responsible director. He held this position until 2009. After he headed the Commission for Freedom of the Press and Information of the Inter-American Press Association Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (SIP) for two years from 1994 and held the office of Vice-President of the SIP from 1997 to 1999, he was elected as its President in November 2000 . He worked as such until 2001. The inauguration of Arbilla in this position, who worked at the beginning of the military dictatorship from 1972 to 1975 as head of the news and information center of the Uruguayan President during the term of office of Juan María Bordaberry , was for the Uruguayan daily newspaper La República , the now-discontinued magazine Posdata and the evening newspaper El Diario reason to withdraw from this organization. He later became Vice-President of the Executive Committee of the SIP. Arbilla also took over the presidency of two other commissions within the organization ( Nominaciones and Por la Paz ). In 2001 he received the Premio "Mons. Leonidas Proaño of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Derechos Humanos (ALDHU).
literature
- Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya by Miguel Ángel Campodónico , Librería Linardi y Risso, 2003, p. 29
Individual evidence
- ^ President of the SIP with picture on the official website of the SIP
- ↑ "The Presidente de la SIP fue un alto funcionario de prensa de la última dictadura militar en Uruguay"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arbilla, Danilo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arbilla Frachia, Danilo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uruguayan journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Casupá , Uruguay |