Maria Moors Cabot prize
Encyclopedia
The Maria Moors Cabot Prizes are the oldest international awards in the field of journalism
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

. They pick what the Trustees of Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 see as journalistic contributions to inter-American
Americas
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 understanding.

Award

The prizes are awarded annually since 1939 by the Trustees of Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 in the City of New York on recommendation of the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

 and the Cabot Prize Board, which is composed of journalists and educators.

Recipients

Three to four medalists from the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

, and Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 are selected each year. Prize winners receive the Cabot medal and a $5,000 honorarium, plus travel expenses to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 and hotel accommodations for the presentation ceremony. Medalists' news organizations receive a bronze plaque.

Ceremony

The winners are announced between May and July, and the prizes are presented by the President of Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 at an awards ceremony in the fall.

Prize winners

Year Honorees Country
2009 Anthony DePalma
Christopher Hawley
Merval Pereira
Yoani Sánchez
Yoani Sánchez
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2008 Carmen Aristegui Flores
Sam Quiñones
Gustavo Sierra
Michael Smith
Michael Smith (journalist)
Michael Smith is a journalist for Bloomberg News.He was a freelance journalist covering Chile.He graduated from University of North Carolina.He worked at the Daily Record in Morristown, New Jersey and the Associated Press....

2007 Alfredo Corchado
José Vales
Maria Teresa Ronderos
Gary T. Marx
Gary T. Marx
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2006 Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Ginger Thompson
José Hamilton Ribeiro
Matt Moffet
2005 Miriam Leitão
Tim Padgett
Mabel Rehnfeldt
S. Lynne Walker
La Nación
2004 Gerardo Reyes
Daniel Santoro
Elena Poniatowska
Elena Poniatowska
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Joel Millman
Alberto Ibargüen
Alberto Ibargüen
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2003 João Antônio Barros
Raúl Kraiselburd
Mac Margolis
Michael Reid
Sociedad de Periodistas Manuel Márquez Sterling
2002 David C. Adams
Sergio Luis Carreras
Michele Montas-Dominique
Robert J. Rivard
2001 Monica Gonzalez
Mónica González
Mónica González de Listorti is an Argentine professional theater dancer and vedette, as well as the pare of TV Host and comedian José Mariá Listorti...

Jorge Ramos
Clóvis Rossi
Sebastian R. Rotella
2000 Eloy O. Aguilar
Paul Knox
Paul Knox
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Francisco Santos
Francisco Santos
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Ricardo Uceda
Ricardo Uceda
Ricardo Uceda Perez is a Peruvian journalist notable for his award-winning coverage of military and government corruption.-Background:...

Lloyd Williams
1999 James McClatchy
James McClatchy
James McClatchy was an American newspaper editor.Although he is thought of as founder of The Sacramento Bee, which grew into The McClatchy Company, James McClatchy was actually the newspaper's second editor, taking over just days after the newspaper began publication as The Daily Bee in February...

Raúl Rivero
Raúl Rivero
Raúl Rivero Castañeda is a Cuban poet, journalist, and dissident. Rivero was born in 1945 in Morón, Camagüey, in central Cuba.In his youth, he was an ardent follower of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. He was among the first generation of journalists to graduate after the triumph of the...

Linda Robinson
Juan Tamayo
Jorge Zepeda Patterson
1998 J. Jesús Blancornelas
Edmundo Cruz Vílchez
Andres Oppenheimer
Andrés Oppenheimer
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William Lawrence Rohter, Jr.
1997 Gerardo Bedoya
Gerardo Bedoya
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José de Córdoba
Jorge Fontevecchia
Julia Preston
Enrique Santos Castillo
Hernando Santos Castillo
1996 Dudley Althaus
Ramón Garza García
Timothy Jay Johnson
Eduardo Ulibarri
Eduardo Ulibarri
Eduardo Ulibarri Bilbao is an award winning Costa Rican journalist.- Early life :Eduardo Ulibarri was born in Remedios, Cuba on February 3, 1952...

1995 Roberto Eisenmann
Douglas Farah
Canute James
Geri Smith
José Zamora Marroquín
1994 James Brooke
James Brooke
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Mauricio Funes
Mauricio Funes
Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena is the President of El Salvador. He won the 2009 presidential election as the candidate of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front political party and took office on 1 June 2009.-Biography:Funes is married to Dr. Vanada Pignado, who was involved in...

Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas
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Oscar Serrat
1993 Pamela Constable
Manuel de Dios
Edward Seaton
Patricia Verdugo
Patricia Verdugo
Patricia del Cármen Verdugo Aguirre was a Chilean journalist, writer and human rights activist. She focused much of her investigative reporting on the human rights abuses committed by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.-Early life:Verdugo was born in 1947...

1992 Danilo Arbilla
Sam Dillon
John Dinges
John Dinges
John Dinges was special correspondent for Time, Washington Post and ABC Radio in Chile. With a group of Chilean journalists, he cofounded the Chilean magazine APSI...

Gustavo Gorriti
Gustavo Gorriti
Gustavo Gorriti is a Peruvian journalist who has worked extensively on coverage pertaining to the politics, culture, and social issues of Central and South America, and the Caribbean...

1991 Ricardo Arnt
Gilberto Dimenstein
Gilberto Dimenstein
Gilberto Dimenstein is a Brazilian journalist. He is currently a columnist at the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, of which he is also a member of the editorial counsil. He also keeps a column at CBN radio....

Otavio Frias Filho
Eduardo Gallardo
Alejandro Junco de la Vega
Alejandro Junco de la Vega
Alejandro Junco de la Vega was born August 28, 1948 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. He is a distinguished Mexican journalist. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 1969....

1990 Richard Boudreaux
Huascar Cajias Kauffman
Elsie Etheart
Alma Guillermoprieto
Alma Guillermoprieto
Alma Guillermoprieto is a Mexican journalist who has written extensively about Latin America for the British and American press. Her writings have also been widely disseminated within the Spanish-speaking world.-Life:...

Carlos Lins da Silva
Lucia Newman
Lucia Newman
Lucia Newman is a British reporter for Al Jazeera English and former reporter for CNN. In 1991, she received the Maria Moors Cabot prize from Columbia University for contributing to "the advancement of press freedom and inter-American understanding".In March 1997, Newman became the first United...

1989 Felipe López Caballero
Humberto Rubín Schvartzman
Juan M. Vazquez
Arturo Villar
1988 Nicholas Clark Asheshov
Roberto Civita
Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzer is a United States author and newspaper reporter. He is a veteran New York Times correspondent who has reported from more than fifty countries on five continents. During the 1980s he covered revolution and social upheaval in Central America...

Hermenegildo Sábat
Hermenegildo Sábat
-Early career in journalism:Hermenegildo Sábat was born in the oceanfront Pocitos section of Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1933. Named after a grandparent who had been a noted local artist in his day, Hermenegildo was known as "Menchi," from early childhood...

1987 Luis Camacho (posthumous)
Guillermo Cano Isaza
Guillermo Cano Isaza
Guillermo Cano Isaza was a Colombian journalist.The editor of the daily El Espectador, he was murdered in front of the paper's offices by two hitmen linked to Colombia's drug cartels...

 (posthumous)
Raúl Echavarría Barrientos
Guy Gugliotta
Luis Levy
Roberto Muller
Paulo Sotero
1986 Dario Arizmendi
Alfonso Chardy
Hugh O'Shaughnessy
Hugh O'Shaughnessy
Hugh O'Shaughnessy is an Irish journalist who has worked for over 40 years for major British newspapers including The Observer, The Independent, the Financial Times and most frequently The Guardian. He has also published a number of books focusing on Latin America. He was a friend of Salvador Allende...

Julio Rajneri
Guillermo Sánchez Borbón
Gavin Scott
Gavin Scott
Gavin Scott is a novelist, broadcaster and writer of the Emmy-winning mini-series The Mists of Avalon, Small Soldiers, Working Title’s The Borrowers and Sci Fi’s Legend of Earthsea, spent ten years making films for British television before becoming a screenwriter, creating more than two hundred...

1985 Shirley Christian
Dery Dyer
Richard Dyer
William H. Heath
Rafael Herrera
Andrew Morrison
Andrew Morrison
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Aldo Zuccolillo
1984 William Buzenberg
Kenneth Gordon
Ken Gordon (Trinidad)
Kenneth "Ken" Gordon is a Trinidadian businessman and former politician.He went to Saint Mary's College and went away to study in the United States and United Kingdom to further his studies. He went into broadcasting in the early 1950s as a radio announcer for Radio Trinidad. He later became...

John Hoagland
John Hoagland
John Hoagland was a war photographer and photojournalist noted for his documentation of civil conflicts in Nicaragua, Lebanon, and El Salvador....

 (posthumous)
Harold Hoyte
Alister Hughes
Cynthia Hughes
Frank Manitzas
1983 Jack Fendell
Emilio Filippi
Everett Martin
Everett Martin
Everett Wayne Martin , also known as Bigfoot Martin is a former professional boxer. He is a journeyman heavyweight best known for his performances against more notable contenders.-Pro Boxing Career:...

Marcel Neidergang
1982 Frances Grant
William R. Long
Daniel Samper
1981 Karen DeYoung
Karen DeYoung
Karen DeYoung is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, and is the associate editor for The Washington Post.DeYoung was born in Florida and she grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida. She received Bachelor degrees in journalism and communications from the University of Florida.After graduation,...

Marlise Simons
Marlise Simons
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Stanley Swinton
Jacobo Timerman
Jacobo Timerman
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1980 Richard T. Baker
Guido Fernández
Penny Lernoux
Penny Lernoux
Penny Lernoux was an American journalist and author.Lernoux was born into a comfortable Roman Catholic family in California and excelled in school...

Alan Riding
Bill Stewart (posthumous)
1979 Leslie Ashenheim
Jerry Hannifin
Andrew Heiskell
Andrew Heiskell
Andrew Heiskell was chairman and CEO of Time Inc. , and also known for his philanthropy, including for the New York Public Library...

Jeremiah O'Leary
Jeremiah O'Leary
Jeremiah O'Leary was an American newspaper reporter and columnist.He grew up in northwest Washington, DC, then served as a U.S. Marine in the Pacific theater during World War II and fought in the invasions of New Britain, Guam and Peleliu...

Juan Zuleta Ferrer
1978 Joseph Benham
Joseph Benham
Joseph Benham, son of Captain Robert Benham, was born in Kentucky.In 1815, Joseph graduated from the Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, its first graduation class....

Carlos Castello Branco
Robert Cox
Robert Cox (journalist)
Robert J. Cox, also known as Bob Cox, is a British journalist who worked as editor of the Buenos Aires Herald newspaper, an English daily in Argentina. Cox became famous for his criticisms of the military dictatorship . He was detained and jailed and was later released and forced to leave Argentina...

Carl Migdail
1977 Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal
Jonathan Kandell
Joseph A. Taylor
Anita von Kahler Gumpert
1976 Robert U. Brown
Bernard Diederich
Germán Ornes
Jorge Remonda-Ruibal
1975 Walter Everett (journalist)
Norman Ingrey
David Kraiselburd
David Kraiselburd
-Life and times:David Kraiselburd was born into a working-class Ukrainian Jewish family in Berisso, a suburb north of La Plata, Argentina, in 1912. In his teens, a high-school writing contest earned him an internship in La Plata's main daily, El Día, after the end of which he was hired by the paper...

 (posthumous)
Sam Summerlin
Enrique Zileri Gibson
1974 Donald Bohning
William Montalbano
Fernando Pedreira
1973 David F. Belnap
David F. Belnap
David Foster Belnap was an American journalist and foreign correspondent in Latin America from 1955 to 1980 who won a 1970 Overseas Press Club award for his reporting....

Donald Casey
Diana Julio de Massot
1972 Pedro Beltrán
Tom Steithorst
Arturo Uslar Pietri
Arturo Uslar Pietri
Arturo Uslar Pietri , was a Venezuelan intellectual, lawyer, journalist, writer, television producer and politician.- Life :...

1971 Juan Carlos Colombres (Landrú)
Juan Carlos Colombres
Juan Carlos Colombres is an Argentine caricaturist and humorist whose work has illustrated articles and editorials in a number of the nation's leading periodicals. He contributions appear under the byline of Landrú....

Georgie Anne Geyer
Georgie Anne Geyer
Georgie Anne Geyer is an American journalist and columnist for the Universal Press Syndicate. Her columns focus on foreign affairs issues and appear in approximately 120 newspapers in North and South America. She is the author of several books, including a biography of Fidel Castro.Geyer was born...

Julio Scherer García
1970 Alberto Dines
Alberto Dines
Alberto Dines is a Brazilian journalist and writer. With a career spanning over five decades, Dines directed and launched several magazines and newspapers in Brazil and Portugal...

John Goshko
John Harbron
1969 Alceu Amoroso Lima
Alceu Amoroso Lima
Alceu Amoroso Lima was a writer, journalist and activist from Brazil. He adopted the pseudonym Tristão de Ataíde in 1919 and wrote under that name. In 1928 he converted to Catholicism and eventually became head of Catholic Action in Brazil...

Edward W. Barrett
Edward W. Barrett
Edward Ware Barrett was a United States journalist who was Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from 1950 to 1952, and Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism from 1956 to 1968, in which capacity he founded the Columbia Journalism Review in 1961.-Biography:Edward W...

George Beebe
Luis Cano
1968 Robert Bellerez
Alberto Gainza Paz
Guillermo Gutiérrez
Argentina Hills
José Joaquin Salcedo
1967 Peter Aldor
James Copley
James Goodsell
M.F. Nascimento Brito
Ramón J. Velásquez
1966 Alberto Cellario
Agustín Edwards Eastman
Paul Kidd (journalist)
1965 Gesford Fine
Roberto Marinho
Roberto Marinho
Roberto Pisani Marinho was the president and founder of the biggest Brazilian TV channel, Globo, a television network with 113 stations and associates...

Victoria Ocampo
Victoria Ocampo
Victoria Ocampo Aguirre was an Argentine writer and intellectual, described by Jorge Luis Borges as La mujer más argentina ....

Paul Sanders
Paul Sanders
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1964 Hugo Fernández Artucio
Hugo Fernández Artucio
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Bertram Johansson
Enrique Nores
Virginia Prewett
1963 Germán Arciniegas
Germán Arciniegas
Germán Arciniegas was a Colombian essayist and historian. Arciniegas wrote over 50 books and many columns in the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo and also taught at Columbia University in New York.- Books :...

William Barlow
Jorge Fernández
Juan de Onis
Juan Valmaggia
1962 Raúl Fontaina
John R. Herbert
Rodolfo Junco de la Vega
John Shively Knight
1961 Alejandro Carrión
Alejandro Carrión
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Fernando Gómez Martínez
Albert Nevins
Rómulo O'Farrill
John T. O'Rourke
1960 James Canel
José Dutriz, Jr.
Rodolfo Luque
William M. Pepper, Jr.
Eduardo Santos
Eduardo Santos
Eduardo Santos Montejo was a leading Colombian publisher and politician, active in the Colombian Liberal Party. He owned the prominent Bogotá newspaper El Tiempo, and served as the President of Colombia from August 1938 to August 1942.Santos was close friends with the Venezuelan Ambassador in...

1959 Ricardo Castro
Ricardo Castro
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Clement Hellyer
Juan A. Ramírez
Tad Szulc
Tad Szulc
Tadeusz Witold Szulc was a reporter and writer of non-fiction books.-Life:Szulc was born in Warsaw, the son of Seweryn and Janina Baruch Szulc. He attended school in Switzerland. In 1940 he emigrated from Poland to join his family in Brazil...

Hernane Tavares de Sá
1958 Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta
Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta
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Eduardo Cardenas
Jesús Hernández Chapellín
Miguel Angel Quevedo
Miguel Ángel Quevedo
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1957 Paulo Bittencourt
Luis Franzini
Harry Frantz
John Shively Knight
Miguel Lanz Duret
Carlos Mantilla
Roberto Marinho
Roberto Marinho
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Guillermo Martínez Márquez
Herbert Moses
John T. O'Rourke
René Silva Espejo
James Stahlman
Tom Wallace
1956 Carl Ackerman
Jesús Alvarez del Castillo
Roberto García Peña
Herbert Matthews
Herbert Matthews
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David Torino
1955 Pedro Beltrán
Breno Caldas
John Oliver LaGorce
Roberto Noble
Roberto Noble
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A. T. Steele
1954 Gabriel Cano
Sidney Fletcher
Danton Jobim
Carlos Ramirez MacGregor
Carlos Ramírez MacGregor
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Lloyd Statton
1953 Crede Clahoun
Carlos Lacerda
Carlos Lacerda
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Ismael Pérez Castro
Arturo Schaerer
1952 Antonio Arias Bernal
Belarmino de Athayde
Jorge Délano Frederick (Coke)
Jules Dubois
Jules Dubois
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Juan B. Fernández
1951 Elmano Cardim
Julio Garzón
Ramón León
Francisco Núñez
Francisco Núñez
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1950 John Brogan
María Constanza Huergo
Jesús María Pellín
Joshua Powers
Ángel Ramos
Angel Ramos
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1949 Milton Bracker
Eduardo Rodriguez Larreta
José Santiago Castillo
1948 Manuel Cineros Sánchez
Joseph L. Jones
Orlando Ribeiro Dantas
Alfredo Silva-Carballo
1947 Carlos Aramayo
Alberto Lleras Camargo
Alberto Lleras Camargo
Alberto Lleras Camargo was an important Colombian diplomat and political figure.He was a member of the Liberal Party of Colombia; he served as congressman , Minister of Education, Minister of the Interior and Minister of Foreign Affairs, during the governments of Alfonso López Pumarejo and Eduardo...

David Vela
1946 Grant Dexter
Grant Dexter
Grant Dexter , was one of Canada's most influential journalists in the mid-20th century. Dexter spent his entire career with the Winnipeg Free Press, which he joined in 1912 at the age of 16. He served in Lord Strathcona’s Horse from 1915 until he was invalided to England in 1917. For many years ...

Lee Hills
Lee Hills (journalist)
Lee Hills was an editor and publisher of the Miami Herald and the Detroit Free Press. He was the first chairman and CEO of Knight-Ridder Newspapers and president of the Knight Ridder news service after he helped arrange the merger of Knight Newspapers and Ridder Publications; later in life, he...

Miguel Lanz Duret
1945 Francisco Chateaubriand
Luis Teófilo Nuñez
Tom Wallace
1944 Carlos Mantilla Ortega
Albert McGeachy
Jorge Pinto
1943 Pedro Cue
Rodrigo de Llano
Edward Tomlinson
1942 Lorenzo Batlle
Luis Mitre
1941 Paulo Bittencourt
Sylvia Bittencourt
Carlos Dávila
Carlos Dávila
Carlos Gregorio Dávila Espinoza , was a Chilean political figure, Chairman of Government Junta of Chile in 1932, and Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1954 until his death in 1955.-Early life:...

José Ignacio Rivero
Jose Ignacio Rivero
José Ignacio Rivero was a Cuban exile and journalist .Rivero was born in Havana, Cuba. He is the grandson of Don Nicolas Rivero, who in 1832 founded the newspaper El Diario de la Marina, and the son of Pepin Rivero, who took over the newspaper upon the death of Don Nicolas in 1944...

1940 Agustín Edwards
James Irving Miller
Enrique Santos Montejo
Rafael Heliodoro Valle
1939 Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra
José Santos Gollan

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