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Times' Adams awarded for Latin America coverageBy Times staff and wire reports© St. Petersburg Times published June 21, 2002 David Adams, Latin America correspondent for the St. Petersburg Times, has been selected by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism to receive a 2002 Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting on Latin America. The Cabot awards are presented to reporters and editors who have covered the Western Hemisphere and, through their coverage, demonstrated commitment to freedom of the press and inter-American understanding. Founded in 1938 and first awarded in 1939 by the late Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston as a memorial to his wife, the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes are the oldest international awards in journalism, according to the university. Adams, 41, was recognized for his reports on political unrest in Venezuela and the growing U.S. involvement in Colombia's fight against drug trafficking. He has reported from Latin America for the past 15 years; first as a freelance correspondent covering Central America, and for the past eight years as a roving staff correspondent for the Times.
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