Dr. Leonardo Ferreira is Professor at the Lee Caplin School of Journalism & Media, member of the Faculty Advisory Board and former Director of the Andean Studies Program of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University (FIU). He has also been a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly for nearly 15 years.
Dr. Ferreira has published works in U.S., British, Spanish, and Latin American academic journals and encyclopedias. His Centuries of Silence: The Story of Latin American Journalism (Praeger, 2006) became a bestseller among U.S. libraries. Choice Magazine of the American Library Association (ALA) called this book: âProbably the most detailed account of the Latin American mass media ever written in Englishâ (May 2007). His second volume, Comparative Media Laws in Latin America, is expected in early fall 2025 (Routledge, United Kingdom). He is also working on a journalism monograph about the indigenous contribution to the field in the Americas (Native Journalism: From Precolumbian to Contemporary Times). The sixth edition of his trilogy on Latin American defamation and privacy (Argentina, Chile, and Mexico) appears in the International Libel & Privacy Handbook (LexisNexis, 2022-2023 Edition).
