SoJ Web Report | April 14, 2011
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The international conference, “Transparency as Modernization of the State: Experiences, Key Actors and Challenges,” is at the Extension Center for Catholic University of Chile in Santiago. The annual conference recognizes the passage of Chile’s Transparency Law, that country’s version of the Freedom of Information Act, in 2009.
Fargo will be one of the speakers at a workshop, “Journalism and Access to Public Information.” He also will talk to journalism and mass communication students about legal issues related to newsgathering at Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, the University of Concepcion in Concepcion, the Universidad del Desarrollo in Concepcion and Alberto Hurtado University in Santiago.
During the week, Fargo will take part in a roundtable discussion with School of Communications and School of Law professors at the University of the Andes in Santiago. He’s schedule to participate in a roundtable discussion with television journalists and editors at Channel 13 in Santiago and to discuss legal issues with journalists at El Sur (The South) newspaper in Concepcion. Students from Catholic University of the Holy Conception also will participate in the roundtable at El Sur.
He also will be interviewed for a radio program, “Dimension Internacional,” by a press officer at the American Embassy. The program is distributed weekly to 100 radio stations throughout Chile.
Fargo and other conference speakers also have been invited to a luncheon at the Presidential Palace in Santiago on the last day of the conference, April 21.
The trip is arranged and funded by the U.S. State Department, the American Embassy in Santiago and Chile’s Council for Transparency.
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