The Brazilian Report among finalists for Prêmio Mosca journalism award

The Brazilian Report is delighted to announce that we are among the 16 finalists for the fifth annual Prêmio Mosca journalism award, handed out by renowned Brazilian news agency Livre.Jor.

The Brazilian Report will be represented by our December 2022 exposé into the “renting” of children by poor Brazilian panhandlers.

Published in English and Brazilian Portuguese, Amanda Audi, Lucas Berti, André Chiavassa, Julia Laüer, and Marine Resse documented the rise of hunger in the country and how panhandlers have resorted to renting children in the hope of gathering more money on the street.

Besides hard-hitting on-the-ground reporting, the story also digs into the data on food security, homelessness, literacy rates, school absenteeism, and child labor.

The reporting was supported by a grant from the Early Childhood Reporting Fellowship program from Columbia University’s Dart Center.

The Prêmio Mosca awards evidence-based journalism that “wades through public data and comes back from the mud with pearls of public interest.” Among the other finalists are stories from newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo, Piauí magazine, and The Intercept Brazil. The winner will be announced on November 13.

Last year’s award was won by journalists Juliana dal Piva and Thiago Herdy, for UOL, for their story that found 107 property registrations in the name of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro and members of his family — and that transactions for almost half of these properties were fully or partially paid in cash.

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