Alberto Ibargüen became president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in mid-2006. Before that, he was publisher of the Miami Herald and of El Nuevo Herald . During his tenure, TMH won three Pulitzer Prizes and ENH won Spain's Ortega y Gasset Prize for excellence in journalism.

He studied at Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Between college and law school, he served in the Peace Corps in Venezuela's Amazon Territory and in Colombia. He practiced law in Hartford, Connecticut until he joined the Hartford Courant , then Newsday in New York before moving to Miami.

For his work to protect journalists in Latin America as part of the Inter American Press Association, Ibargüen received a Maria Moors Cabot citation from Columbia University and George Washington University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters.

Listen to Ibargüen about his background.