Journalism Nonprofit CEO To Give First Amendment Talk In Hartford – Hartford Courant

The CEO of a nonprofit journalism foundation will be coming to Hartford later this month to host a conversation on the First Amendment.

Alberto Ibargen, president and CEO of the Knight Foundation, is speaking at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts on May 18 at an event hosted by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

Ibargen, a former Hartford Courant staff writer and Wesleyan University alumnus, will give an address titled "Democracy, Civic Engagement and the Role of the Free Press."

He will discuss "the Knight Foundation's current efforts to support free expression and excellence in journalism to promote informed communities that may better determine their own interests," the foundation said in a news release.

"Knight supports ideas, leaders and initiatives that are helping advance the practice of journalism, including the use of new technology," the foundation said. "Ibargen will also discuss Knight's efforts to support informed and engaged communities, the building blocks of a successful democracy, and to support efforts to make communities more equitable, inclusive and participatory."

Before he joined the Knight Foundation Ibargen was the publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald. During his tenure The Miami Herald won three Pultizer Prizes and El Nuevo Herald won Spain's Ortega y Gasset Prize for excellence in journalism.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information visit http://www.hpfg.org/ibarguen or call 860-548-1888.

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