"The British journalist Dom Phillips has been laid to rest in Brazil, exactly three weeks after he was gunned down while journeying through the Amazon with the Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. Pereira and Phillips, a longtime Guardian contributor, disappeared while travelling on the Itaquaí River on Sunday 5 June. […] Scores of mourners gathered at […]
"Forensic analysis confirmed on Sat. June 18, that the second body found on Wed. June 15 in the Amazon is that of Bruno Pereira, a 41-year-old father of three children. The day before, British journalist Dom Phillips, 57, a contributor to The Guardian newspaper who had been living in Brazil for 15 years, was identified. […]
"The undersigned organizations call on Brazilian society to express deep indignation and sadness at the confirmation of the deaths of Indian affairs expert Bruno Araújo Pereira and British foreign correspondent Dom Phillips, in Vale do Javari, Amazonas, whose bodies are undergoing expert analysis. [...] On Wed., June 15, the president of Brazil preferred to spend […]
"Police in the Brazilian Amazon have found the bodies of two men in the area close to where British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira went missing 10 days ago. At a press briefing late on Wednesday, regional police chief Eduardo Fontes said one of the two men arrested in connection with the […]
"Around 6:30 p.m. on May 28, a group of about 15 people gathered in front of the building where freelance photojournalist Caio Castor lives with his family in the city of São Paulo, attempted to enter the building, and threatened to “break everything” in his apartment, according to news reports and the journalist, who spoke […]
"A tool created by OCCRP, an international consortium of investigative journalism, Aleph groups more than 500 databases that can be cross-referenced. (...) Entitled "project_abraji", the Aleph directory created as a result of the partnership groups a series of data from Brazil, among them those related to beneficiaries of Emergency Aid and Bolsa Família; aircraft owners, […]
"On National Press Freedom Day, Judge Tamara Hochgreb Matos, from the 24th Civil Court of the city of São Paulo, sentenced President Jair Bolsonaro to pay R$100,000 [USD 20,400] as compensation for collective moral damage to journalists. This ruling can be appealed. The sentence stems from a public civil action filed against Bolsonaro on April […]
"Editors and journalists from some of the world’s biggest news organisations have written to the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, to ask that he “urgently step up and fully resource the effort” to find missing British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira. Led by the Guardian and the Washington Post, two newspapers for […]
"More than 40 international correspondents and friends of British journalist Dom Phillips, who went missing in the Amazon on Sunday in the company of Indigenous issues expert Bruno Araújo Pereira, sent GLOBO a letter in which they say they refuse to give up hope that the pair will be found safe and sound. The group […]
"Indigenist Bruno Araújo Pereira, from the National Indian Foundation (Funai), and English journalist Dom Phillips, a contributor to The Guardian newspaper, disappeared in Vale do Javari, in the Amazon, while traveling between the Ribeirinha São Rafael community to the city of Atalaia do Norte. The information was confirmed to GLOBO by the Union of Indigenous […]
"(...) The payment for news content was a hushed addition to a draft legislation whose stated aim is to mitigate the effects of disinformation. Dubbed the “Fake News Bill,” it would force tech giants to have an office in Brazil and to be more transparent and accountable about their users in the country as well […]
"A feature story by Luigi Mazza, published in the May issue of Piauí, shows how President Jair Bolsonaro has politically biased the Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC), whose main outlet is TV Brasil. The story, which interviewed 29 employees and former employees of the station, as well as former managers, talks about the constant presence […]