Colby College to Recognize Alfredo Corchado From the Dallas Morning News for Coverage... -- PRNewswire/ --: "Colby College has announced that Alfredo Corchado, Mexico Bureau Chief for the Dallas Morning News, will receive the 2010 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism. The convocation is scheduled for Sunday, September 26, 2010, at 5 p.m. in Lorimer Chapel on the Colby College campus.
"It's never been more dangerous to practice journalism in Mexico," Corchado said. "Journalists have been kidnapped, co-opted, disappeared and killed. It's not just the lives of journalists at stake here, but freedom of expression, a key pillar for any functioning democracy." Corchado said he would accept the Lovejoy award "in the memory of many courageous Mexican colleagues, and dedicate it to those who continue to risk their lives to document one of the most important stories of our time."" Sept 21, 2010
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