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Patrick Butler

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Secretario

Patrick Butler es el vicepresidente de contenidos y comunidades del Centro Internacional Para Periodistas (ICFJ).

Antes de empezar con el ICFJ, estuvo por cinco meses en Nicaragua en 1999, capacitando a periodistas como becario en el programa de Becas Internacionales de Prensa Knight. Laboró por diez años como reportero y redactor del diario The State, de Columbia, en Carolina del Sur, donde cubrió temas generales, economía, finanzas y noticias especiales. Realizó reportajes sobre América Latina y África. Antes de su ingreso a The State, Butler se desempeñó como periodista en los diarios Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald-Journal, St. Louis Post-Dispatch y San Jose Mercury News.

En 1999, la Facultad de Periodismo de la Universidad de Columbia, en Nueva York, reconoció su proyecto sobre la inmigración latina a la región sur de los Estados Unidos como uno de los mejores ejemplos de cobertura de temas raciales y étnicos del año.

Es licenciado en Periodismo y Español por la Universidad de Missouri.

Secretary

Patrick Butler is the vice president of content and community at the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), overseeing ICFJ’s work with a global network of journalists, as well as the organization’s overall communications strategy.

Before working at ICFJ, he spent five months in Nicaragua in 1999, training journalists as an ICFJ Knight Fellow. He also worked for ten years as a reporter and editor for The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, where he worked on general assignment, economy, finance and special news stories. His time at those newspapers also included stories reported from Latin America and Africa.

Before joining The State, Butler worked as a journalist at the Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald-Journal, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the San Jose Mercury News. In 1999, the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York recognized his reporting on Latino immigration to the southern United States as one of the year’s best examples of coverage of racial and ethnic issues.

He has a degree in journalism and Spanish from the University of Missouri.