Mario Vargas Llosa: "Journalism is the most important guarantor of liberty"

Posted by John Burke on October 24, 2006 at 10:33 AM

Famed Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has been practicing journalism since the age of 15. Recently awarded Columbia University's Cabot Prize for Outstanding Reporting on Latin America along with three other journalists, Vargas Llosa told the prize ceremony's New York audience that journalism "is the best tool for improving democracy."

Vargas Llosa, an eternal defender of the right to free speech, feels that "Information should be objective, stick to the facts, and systematically search out the truth and journalists to establish a clear boundary between information, opinion and interpretation so that readers can form their own opinion as to what's happening."

The World Editors Forum is honored to have Mr. Vargas Llosa as the keynote speaker at the 14th World Editors Forum in Cape Town, South Africa, June 3-6, 2007.

Source: Periodistas Digital (in Spanish), Columbia News

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