Danilo Arbilla

Danilo Arbilla Frachia ( born February 7, 1943 in Casupá, Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan journalist.

From 1963 to 1981 worked Arbilla, which came into existence as a television and radio journalist, notably for the newspapers Hechos, El Diario, La Mañana, Correo de los Viernes and opinar. Between 1984 and 1989 he took over as co-host of the program on Canal 10 prioridad Arbilla was also the founder and President of the Club de Prensa Extranjera. He was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from the Escuela Superior de Periodismo Columbia University in 1992. In 1998 he assumed the position of director of journalism at the weekly Búsqueda Zung, for which he served as editor in chief, publisher and executive director before. By 2009, he held this position. After early as 1994, two years the Commission for the press and freedom of information the Inter-American Press Association Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (SIP) board and from 1997 exercised the office of the Vice - President of the SIP to 1999, he was elected in November 2000 as its president. As such, he worked until 2001. The Appointed Arbillas on this position, from 1972 worked at the beginning of the military dictatorship until 1975 as Head of News and Information Centre of the Uruguayan president in the tenure Juan María Bordaberrys, was for the Uruguayan newspaper La República, which is now set magazine POSDATA and the evening paper El Diario occasion to withdraw from this organization. He later became vice-president of the Executive Committee of the SIP. Also took Arbilla president of two other Commission within the organization ( Por la Paz and Nominaciones ). In 2001 he received the Premio " Mons. Leonidas Proaño the Asociación Latinoamericana de Derechos Humanos ( ALDHU ).