Around the world, media pioneers and researchers are exploring new forms of ‘co-creational’ news media, where communities are actively involved in producing the news. At its best, co-creational me...
Natalia Viana
Natalia Viana is the co-founder and executive director of Agência Pública, Latin America’s largest nonprofit newsroom. She leads long-term investigations and multimedia projects about human rights violations and Big Tech harms. Her team won 90 national and international awards for its excellence in journalism. A 2022 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, she is the author and co-author of five books about political violence and social issues in Latin America. Her latest, O Vazamento (The Leak) brings a personal perspective of the WikiLeaks release of US Diplomatic Cables in 2010.
Natalia is a board member of the Gabo Foundation, an organization founded by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez dedicated to promoting better journalism and the stimulation of creativity, of the Center of Media Integrity, of CLIP (the Latin American Investigative Journalism Center), and of Conectas Direitos Humanos, Brazil's largest Human Rights NGO. In 2025, Natalia received the Maria Moors Cabot Award from Columbia University.
Once upon a time, what we knew, the news we read and heard and watched, was gathered and processed and shaped in beautiful buildings on landmark sites in the centre of town. The owners of these buildi...
Technology dominates our daily lives, from how we communicate to how we make sense of the world. Big Tech companies and their leaders have major sway in national and global politics, an influence that...
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The 2022 Brazilian elections worked as a battlefield for the new type of war against democracy: the use of coordinated, highly-funded and state-supported networks of misinformation to win and then sub...
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