texas-moody

Alessandra Monnerat

Recent Articles

Brazilian creates innovative tool to measure journalism's impact on society

From the start, journalists are taught that the profession is important for society and for the defense of democracy. But how can that relevance be measured in people’s everyday lives?

Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism celebrates 15 years with record-setting congress

The 977 participants of the 12th International Congress of Investigative Journalism, held between June 28 and July 2, set a record for the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) as it celebrated its 15-year anniversary.

Brazilian site teaches journalists how to protect sources and personal data from digital attacks

Metadata? Encryption? Backdoor? Tor Browser? VPN? PGP? When it comes to digital security for journalists, the amount of technical terms and acronyms can be scary. But tools to ensure online privacy can be crucial to protecting sources, which is why the site Privacidade para Jornalistas (Privacy for Journalists) has been launched in Brazil.

Platform publishes hyperlocal news produced by network of content producers in Recife and wants to expand across Brazil

A lost dog in Setúbal, a Taiwanese restaurant in Espinheiro, a 91-year-old barber from Jardim São Paulo. These are the kinds of hyperlocal issues specific to neighborhoods in the metropolitan neighborhoods of Recife, Brazil that one-year-old news platform PorAqui aggregates for thousands of readers throughout the capital of Pernambuco state.

Jornalistas brasileiros organizam congresso pioneiro para fortalecer jornalismo de educação no país

Um ano depois de lançar a Associação de Jornalistas de Educação (Jeduca), a organização vai promover seu primeiro Congresso de Jornalismo de Educação para debater os desafios que a atividade jornalística enfrenta no atual cenário da cobertura de notícias.

Brazilian journalists host pioneering congress to strengthen education journalism in country

One year after the launch of Brazil’s Association of Education Journalists, also known as Jeduca, the organization is hosting its inaugural Congress on Education Journalism to address the challenges facing the reporting specialization in the current news environment.

Chicas Poderosas to launch incubator for entrepreneurial women journalists in Brazil in 2018

Women journalists, communicators, programmers and designers in Latin American media are like diamonds forming under great pressure, according to CEO and founder of Chicas Poderosas, Mariana Santos. Her organization wants to bring these gems to the surface with a new incubator for women media entrepreneurs.

Brazil's First Lady drops suit against newspapers O Globo and Folha de S. Paulo

The first lady of Brazil, Marcela Temer, has dropped her case against newspapers O Globo and Folha de S. Paulo, according to O Globo.

The bet on fact checking: journalists create more initiatives to verify public discourse and reveal fake news

The FARC will receive government aid of 1.8 million Colombian pesos for five years. The combatants will not spend a day in jail. Timochenko, the top leader of the armed group, could become the president of Colombia.

Journalists from Mexico, Cuba and U.S. are among the winners of El País’ Ortega y Gasset Awards

Journalists from Mexico and Cuba took home Ortega y Gasset journalism awards from Spanish newspaper El País announced on April 6. The 2017 edition was the 34th year of the award. The ceremony will be on May 11 in Madrid, and will crown the best reports in the Spanish language produced last year.