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Faculty news: Buckman visits Guatemala, reports for Washington Post, Dallas Morning News
Bobby Jindal, a 36-year-old Republican, was elected governor without a runoff in a field of eight candidates. He will become the country's youngest governor in January, and the first of Asian-Indian heritage. Buckman filed an advance story on the election that ran on Friday, Oct. 19, then filed an election-night story on a tight deadline that appeared on Sunday. Oct. 21. It was the fourth gubernatorial election he has covered for the Times. It was also the fifth time he has covered a Guatemalan election for different newspapers, beginning in 1990. The first round of voting was on Sept. 9. Alvaro Colom of the center-left National Unity of Hope and retired Brig. Gen. Otto Pérez Molina of the center-right Patriot Party led a field of 14 candidates. Colom, who was making his third bid for the presidency, won the runoff with 52.8 percent of the vote. Buckman had interviewed Colom during his first run in 1999. Another purpose of Buckman's trip was to collect information for the next edition of his annually revised reference book on Latin America. "I always say that every four years I have to cover elections in two banana republics for the Washington Times--Guatemala and Louisiana," Buckman said. He filed two versions of an advance story on the election that appeared in the Times and the Dallas News on Sunday, Nov. 4. His election-night story on Colom's victory was in the Morning News on Monday. He attended Colom's news conference on Monday and filed follow stories to both newspapers, including a 1,200-word analytical piece for the Times. "I always welcome the opportunity to get out of the ivory tower from time to time to engage in real-world journalism again," Buckman said. "It offers the chance for a little adventure, and it proves to my students that the old man can still cut the mustard and knows what he's talking about."
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Robert Buckman, coordinator of the print journalism sequence, covered
Louisiana's gubernatorial open primary on Oct. 20 for the Washington Times,
then flew to Guatemala to cover the presidential runoff on Nov. 4 for
the Washington Times and the Dallas Morning News.