Dec 4th, 2008
Miren Gutierrez interviews SYLVIA BORREN, Co-Chair of the GCAP
Sylvia Borren
Credit:Sabina Zaccaro/IPS
ROME, Dec 4 (IPS) – The Doha Financing for Development Conference is over and many are now wondering how it went and what really happened. Sylvia Borren, co-chair of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), was there.
In an email interview with IPS, Borren [...]
Dec 2nd, 2008
Estoy dando clases como profesora invitada en la Universidad de Navarra de Comunicación International, en castellano e inglés. En varias sesiones hablo de temas como propaganda, la cobertura de la guerra en Irak, la crisis de los medios de comunicación tradicionales, la concentración de la propiedad de los medios, y la ausencia de mujeres en los estratos [...]
From 1990 until 1996, Miren Gutiérrez was based in Hong Kong as an EFE correspondent, covering the South East Asia, Korea and Pacific region, in charge of a group of contributors. She then spent five years in Panama in charge of the business section of La Prensa, the Panamanian newspaper of record. Miren coordinated or edited investigative business stories. Several of these stories were award-winners. A year of free-lancing in New York followed, writing for different media, such as El País, The Nation, UPI, Gatopardo and Offshore Alert. She covered the Sep. 11 attacks for El País. She joined IPS as Editor in chief in January 2003. She published her first novel in 2007.