GENERAL INFORMATION

• Registration North Carolina Room, The Mayflower Hotel
• Staff Room New York Room, The Mayflower Hotel

Tentative Program

Sunday, May 9

9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Registration. North Carolina Room

6:45 p.m. Buses depart for Welcome Reception from hotel entrance on DeSales Street

7:30 p.m. Welcome Reception & Dinner with the U.S. Senate. Remarks by Claudio Grossman, Dean of the American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C. Special guest: CONGRESSMAN. Introduction by IAPA President, Jack Fuller, Tribune Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois. Location: American University Washington College of Law (1801 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.,
6th Floor).

10:00 p.m. Buses return to The Mayflower Hotel

Monday, May 10

7:00 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. Buffet breakfast for all delegates. Special Guest: Kenneth Ferree, FCC Media Bureau Chief, Washington. D.C. Introduction by Rafael Molina, El Nacional, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
East Room (Presentation begins at 8:00 a.m.)

9:00 a.m. Official Inauguration. Grand Ballroom

Summit Coordinator and Chairman of the IAPA’s Chapultepec Committee, Sergio Muñoz, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, introduces the distinguished congressmen and special guests and reviews the Summit format, objectives and agenda.

9:30 a.m. Special presentation on censorship: Floyd Abrams, Cahill Gordon & & Reindel (attorney from the Pentagon Papers). Introduction by Diana Daniels, The Washington Post Company, Washington, D.C., and IAPA Second Vice President.

10:00 a.m. Plenary Session #1: “MEDIA AND LEGAL REGULATION: Legal liability of the media entity, directors and journalists. Criminal libel, privacy and access to the media.” Grand Ballroom

Moderator: Oliver Clarke, The Gleaner, Kingston, Jamaica. Panelists: David Bralow, Tribune Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois; and former Peruvian Human Rights Ombudsman, Jorge Santistevan, Lima, Peru.

11:00 a.m. Coffee Break. Promenade

11:30 a.m. Special presentation by former IAPA President, James McClatchy, McClatchy Newspapers, Sacramento, California, and the video on the Declaration of Chapultepec.

12:00 p.m. Plenary Session #2: “THE EMERGING INTER-AMERICAN DOCTRINE OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.” Grand Ballroom

Moderator: Asdrúbal Aguiar, Universidad Católica Andrés Bellos, Caracas, Venezuela. Panelists: Danilo Arbilla, Búsqueda, Montevideo, Uruguay; Eduardo Bertoni, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression of the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Washington, D.C.; Claudio Grossman, Dean of the American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.

1:00 p.m. Lunch. Special guest: Roger F. Noriega, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Washington, D.C. Introduction by IAPA First Vice President, Alejandro Miró Quesada C., El Comercio, Lima, Peru. East Room

3:00 p.m. Plenary Session #3: “ACCESS TO INFORMATION: Policy and Drafting.” Grand Ballroom

Moderator: Raúl Kraiselburd, El Día, La Plata, Argentina. Panelists: Legal Counsel on FOIA, Department of Justice; Barbara Petersen, Florida First Amendment Foundation; Carol Melamed, Vice President of Government Relations for The Washington Post newspaper, Washington, D.C.; and Miguel Treviño, El Norte, Monterrey, Mexico.

5:30 p.m. Buses depart for Reception at Library of Congress from hotel entrance on DeSales Street

6:00 p.m. Reception. Great Hall, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress.
Welcome remarks by Rubens Medina, Law Librarian of the Library of Congress. Introduction by Claudio Grossman. Co-sponsored by the American University Washington College of Law and Law Library of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

8:00 p.m. Buses return to The Mayflower Hotel

Tuesday, May 11

7:00 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. Buffet breakfast for all delegates. East Room

9:00 a.m. Workshop on FOIA. Former IAPA President, Tony Pederson, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Grand Ballroom

Case Study: Mexico. Miguel Carbonell, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico.

10:30 a.m. Coffee Break. Promenade

11:00 a.m. Closing Remark by IAPA President Jack Fuller

Final Conclusions. Future Action. Sergio Muñoz, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California.

12:00 p.m. Buses depart for U.S. Capitol

12:30 p.m. Closing Luncheon with the U.S. House of Representatives. Caucus Room, Cannon Building of the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Capitol (S. Capitol Street and Independence Avenue, S.E.).

Remarks by U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL). Introduction by Alejandro Aguirre, Diario Las Américas, Miami, Florida.

Appreciations and final words, by former IAPA President, Edward Seaton, Manhattan Mercury, Kansas.

2:30 p.m. Official Summit Photograph. Front Steps of U.S. Capitol Building

2:45 p.m. Visits to House and Senate Chamber Galleries. U.S. Capitol Building

3:45 p.m. Buses return to The Mayflower Hotel