On Sept. 7, Brazil commemorated the bicentennial anniversary of its independence. But a new media project aims to highlight how that independence — and how Brazil has evolved up to the present day — was built on slavery. Inspired … Read more
Fabiano Maisonnave, NF ’16, on the importance of reporting on the rainforest’s destruction I was about to attend a welcome meeting in a remote Arara tribe village when the call miraculously came in through the unreliable internet antennae. The connection … Read more
“Please never go into the Amazon rainforest again.” The message blinked on my phone right after the news of the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips started coming out. Phillips was working on a book in … Read more
It is almost impossible to overestimate the importance of the Amazon basin to Brazil. At approximately five million square kilometers, the region represents 59 percent of the country’s territory, an area just over 10 times larger than California. The … Read more
When the committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) launched its 2015 Global Impunity Index—a survey of countries with the worst records for solving the murders of journalists—it was no surprise that Mexico, a country with a long track … Read more
When the World Cup kicks off in Brazil in June, the government of President Dilma Rousseff will be celebrating the country’s emergence as a global powerhouse. The event, to be staged at sites across the country, will put the nation’s … Read more