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Speaker: Martin Sivak, Director of ElDiario.Ar
Moderated by: Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Sivak will address the experience of conceiving and launching a new national newspaper at the peak of the pandemic and the challenges facing an independent media outlet in Latin America. The model of the newspaper —inspired by the Spanish newspaper eldiairioes, a partner of elDiarioAR—is based on the goal of empowering its community of readers, who pay a monthly fee, combined with the organizing principle of transparency that differentiates it from the opacity that has characterized the history of newspapers in Argentina. elDiarioAr has been recognized for having risen to the challenge of remaining faithful to its sense of journalistic purpose in the context of extreme political polarization.
Martin Sivak, PhD in Latin American History, is the Director of elDiarioAR, a daily national newspaper in Argentina, and the author of eight books of non-fiction, including the international bestsellers El salto de Papá and Evo Morales, the extraordinary rise of the First indigenous president of Bolivia, and the two-volume history of the largest media conglomerate in Latin America, Clarín. Una historia (soon to be published in English by Duke University Press).
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