COMMUNICATION: Uruguayan Journalist, New Director-General of IPS

By IPS Correspondents Reprint | | Print |

ROME, Oct 4 2002 (IPS) - Uruguayan reporter Mario Lubetkin was named director-general of the IPS international news agency, the central office in the Italian capital announced this week.

Lubetkin, who has held the post of interim director-general since April, is also IPS regional director for Latin America, based in Montevideo.

Lubetkin was offered the post by former Portuguese head of state Mario Soares, the chair of the IPS Board of Directors, at a meeting of the Board held in The Hague, Netherlands early this week, in which former United Nations secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a member of the IPS Committee of Trustees, was also present.

Soares reported that the proposal represented a unanimous decision by the 17 members of the Board.

Lubetkin thus becomes the third director-general of IPS in its 38 years of history, after Argentine-Italian journalist Roberto Savio (the founder and director of the agency until 2000, and the current chair of the IPS Committee of Trustees), and U.S.- Zimbabwean reporter Patrica Made, who stepped down in April due to personal reasons.

IPS is an international association of journalists that runs a news agency specialising in sustainable development issues, with correspondents and stringers across the globe.

The IPS Board is chosen by the members of the association in assemblies held every three years, and is representative of the association’s geographic, cultural and gender spread.

Lubetkin is assuming the post during a phase of strategic reformulation of the agency, prompted by the profound changes in the international media market, as well as the emergence of a powerful global civil society movement, which IPS has historically served as an important channel of communication and information.

IPS was founded in 1964 as a communications bridge between Europe and Latin America, but swiftly took shape as a news agency of the developing world.

The agency has consultant status as a Category I non- governmental organisation in the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Lubetkin joined IPS in 1980, in the central office in Rome, and was transferred to Montevideo as a correspondent in 1984.

Since 1995, he has served as director of the Latin American regional office, one of the strongest links in the international IPS network. In the past two years, he has also held the post of IPS marketing director.

COMMUNICATION: Uruguayan Journalist, New Director-General of IPS

By IPS Correspondents Reprint | | Print |

ROME, Oct 4 2002 (IPS) - Uruguayan reporter Mario Lubetkin was named director-general of the IPS international news agency, the central office in the Italian capital announced this week.
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COMMUNICATION: Uruguayan Journalist, New Director-General of IPS

By IPS Correspondents Reprint | | Print |

ROME, Oct 4 2002 (IPS) - Uruguayan reporter Mario Lubetkin was named director-general of the IPS international news agency, the central office in the Italian capital announced this week.
(more…)