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Alberto Ibarguen to be Chairman of the Newseum
Ibarguen leads one of the nation's largest private independent foundations. With assets of $1.9 billion, the Knight Foundation makes grants of more than $90 million annually to promote excellence in journalism. Ibarguen has been a newspaper executive for more than 20 years, first at the Hartford (Conn.) Courant and then at Newsday in New York before joining Knight Ridder. He was publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald until July, when he assumed his current position at the Knight Foundation. During his tenure at The Miami Herald, the newspaper won three Pulitzer Prizes. Alberto Ibarguen was publisher of the Miami Herald and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Venezuela in the 1960's.
Alberto Ibarguen to be Chairman of the Newseum
Newseum Chairman Is Named
Wednesday December 13, 4:12 pm ET
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Alberto Ibarguen, president and chief executive officer of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, will become chairman of the Newseum Jan. 1, 2007, and four nationally known people will join the Newseum board.
The new trustees include three media executives and a former director of the National Park Service:
* Gary L. Ginsberg, executive vice president, corporate affairs, News
Corp.
* George B. Irish, president, Hearst Newspapers, and senior vice
president, Hearst Corp.
* Robert Stanton, former director, National Park Service
* David Westin, president, ABC News
"These moves broaden the base of active support for the Newseum," said Charles L. Overby, who continues as chief executive officer. "When we open in the fall of 2007, the Newseum will have the benefit of both a strong management team and an outstanding board of directors."
Other Newseum trustees include educators, authors, and business and civic leaders.
The Freedom Forum's largest-funded program is the Newseum, a museum of news nearing completion at Pennsylvania Avenue and 6th Street in Washington. The $435-million project is expected to open in September 2007.
Ibarguen leads one of the nation's largest private independent foundations. With assets of $1.9 billion, the Knight Foundation makes grants of more than $90 million annually to promote excellence in journalism. Ibarguen has been a newspaper executive for more than 20 years, first at the Hartford (Conn.) Courant and then at Newsday in New York before joining Knight Ridder. He was publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald until July, when he assumed his current position at the Knight Foundation. During his tenure at The Miami Herald, the newspaper won three Pulitzer Prizes.
Ibarguen is on the Trustee's Council of the National Gallery of Art, the Advisory Council of the Public Accounting Oversight Board and is a member of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is former chairman of the board of the Public Broadcasting Service and has served on the boards of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and other nonprofit organizations and educational institutions.
A graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Venezuela's Amazon territory and in Colombia.
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The Freedom Forum, based in Arlington, Va., is a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The foundation focuses on three priorities: the Newseum, the First Amendment and newsroom diversity.
The Freedom Forum is the principal funder of operations of the Newseum, an interactive museum of news under construction in Washington, D.C.; the First Amendment Center; and the Diversity Institute. The First Amendment Center and the Diversity Institute are housed in the John Seigenthaler Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. The First Amendment Center also has offices in Washington and the Diversity Institute has offices and programs at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.
The Freedom Forum was established in 1991 under the direction of Founder Allen H. Neuharth as successor to a foundation started in 1935 by newspaper publisher Frank E. Gannett. The Freedom Forum is not affiliated with Gannett Co. Its work is supported by income from an endowment of diversified assets.
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