2007- 2010

CRISTINA ABY-AZAR
The Wall Street Journal
New York, New York

DAVID ADAMS
St. Petersburg Times
St. Petersburg, Florida

GILBERTO ARIAS
Editora Panamá-América, Panamá
Panama City

ELIZABETH BALLENTINE
Durango Herald
Durango, Colorado

SIDNEI BASILE
Editora Abril
São Paulo, Brasil

JAIME CAMARA, JR
O Popular
Goiania, Brasil

FELIPE T. EDWARDS
La Segunda
Santiago, Chile

ARMANDO GONZALEZ R.
La Nación
San José, Costa Rica

ANDERS GYLLENHAAL
The Miami Herald
Miami, Florida

JOSE SANTIAGO HEALY
Diario San Diego
Chula Vista, California

SATURNINO HERRERO
Clarín
Buenos Aires, Argentina

JUAN PABLO ILLANES
El Mercurio
Valparaiso, Chile

SILVIA MIRÓ QUESADA
El Comercio
Lima, Perú

BARTOLOMÉ MITRE
La Nación, Buenos Aires
Argentina

DAVID NATERA FEBRES
Correo del Caroni
Guayana, Venezuela

DONALD PODESTA
The Washington Post Newspaper
Washington, DC

ROBERT RIVARD
San Antonio Express-News
Texas

RAUL RIVERO
CubaPress
La Habana, Cuba

JORGE ANDRES SAIEH
La Tercera
Santiago, Chile

JAYME SIROTSKY
RBS
Porto Alegre, Brasil

2005– 2008

H. BRANDT AYERS
The Anniston Star
Anniston, Alabama

CLEMENTE VIVANCO
Diario La Hora
Quito, Ecuador

BRUCE BRUGMANN
San Francisco Bay Guardian
San Francisco, California

ROBERT J. CALDWELL
The San Diego Union-Tribune
San Diego, California

MILTON COLEMAN
The Washington Post
Washington, DC

JUAN FRANCISCO EALY ORTIZ
El Universal
Mexico, DF

AGUSTIN J. EDWARDS
El Mercurio
Santiago, Chile

LUIS F. ETCHEVEHERE
El Diario
Paraná, Argentina

LUIS ALBERTO FERRE RANGEL
El Nuevo Día
San Juan, Puerto Rico

GERARDO GARCIA GAMBOA
Novedades de Mérida
Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico

MARIO ALBERTO GUSMãO
Jornal NH
Novo Hamburgo, Brazil

JUAN FERNANDO HEALY
Periódicos Healy
Hermosillo, Mexico

MIGUEL HENRIQUE OTERO
El Nacional
Caracas, Venezuela

ANDRÉ LUIS JUNGBLUT
Gazeta do Sul
Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil

JAIME MANTILLA ANDERSON
Diario Hoy
Quito, Ecuador

GONZALO MARROQUIN
Prensa Libre
Guatemala, Guatemala

WILLIAM O. NUTTING
Wheeling News Register
Wheeling, West Virginia


LOUIS (Skip) PEREZ
The Ledger
Lakeland, Florida

NELIDA RAJNERI
Diario Río Negro
General Roca, Argentina

PEDRO ZAMBRANO LAPENTTI
El Diario - Manabita
Portoviejo, Ecuador

Sixty individuals shall be elected by the annual General Assembly of the Association to compose the Board of Directors and hereinafter will be called the elected directors. Vacancies occurring on the Board shall be filled by election by the Board. Members include: 1) the honorary officers and all past Presidents of the Inter American Press Association, 2) all past Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Association, and all past officers of the Association, all past Chairman of the Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information, all past past Presidents and Chairmen of the Inter American Press Scholarship, Inc., provided they have served a total of at least five years in either one or more of these capacities.

At each General Assembly twenty directors shall be elected for a term of three years. Each elected director must be elected for a term of three years. Each elected director must be a qualified representative of an Active or Corporate member of the Association.

Elected members of the Board of Directors shall assume office immediately following the termination of the meeting at which they were elected, and as soon thereafter as practicable the Board shall hold a meeting for which no notice need be given at which the Board shall elect a President, two Vice Presidents, a Treasurer, a Secretary and a Chairman and members of the Executive Committee; none of the aforementioned officers has to be an elected member of the Board. The directors shall have power to fill vacancies in the Board occurring as a result of any cause between annual meetings of the members.

The Board of Directors shall hold a regular semi-annual meeting approximately six months after the annual meeting. It will also hold regular meetings, for which no notice shall be required, immediately before and after the annual meeting of the members. The place and time of the annual meeting of the members will be determined by the Board.

Special meetings of the Board and/or the Advisory Council may be called by the President or any 20 directors. Notice of all special meetings shall be given by telephone, cablegram or regular mail to each director at least 30 days before the date of the meeting.

The Board of Directors shall have the power to make all rules and regulations for conducting the business and affairs of the Association, to establish the business and affairs of the Association, to establish an office or offices as required either within or without the State of Delaware, to employ and discharge essential staff and fix compensation, and generally to do all acts and things deemed necessary for the best interests of the Association, including the fixing of dues and assessments.

The Board of Directors shall submit at each Annual Meeting a full report of the condition and finances of the Association together with a full review of its acts annually for the approval and ratification of the membership.