Media in Latin America: Transparency, Special Interests and Accessibility

 On Monday October 24th, The Poverty and Power Research Initiative (PPRI) held its first speaker event of the PPRI Speaker Series for 2011 revolving around the theme of "Media and its Relations with Power Structures". PPRI presented Mr.Fernando Berguido, a current Nieman Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, and publisher of the newspaper La Prensa in Panama. Mr. Berguido lead a discussion on Media in Latin America: Transparency, Special Interests and Accessibility. focusing on the role of media in influencing political power structures, while also being an influential power-institution itself.