Caco Barcellos
Caco Barcellos | |
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| Born | 5 March 1950 |
| Occupations | Journalist, reporter and writer |
Cláudio Barcellos de Barcellos, known as Caco Barcellos, (born 5 March 1950) is a Brazilian journalist, television reporter and writer, specialized in investigative stories and documentaries about human rights, denouncing social injustice and violence.[1] He presents the program Profissão:Repórter at TV Globo.
Barcellos was awarded two times with Prêmio Jabuti on reporting, with the books Rota 66:a história da polícia que mata (1992) and Abusado: o dono do Morro Dona Marta (2004).[2][3]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Barcelos was born in Porto Alegre, in the Vila São José do Murialdo neighborhood. He worked as a taxi driver and graduated in journalism at the Pontifical Catholic University.[4] Barcellos started as a reporter for the Porto Alegre newspaper Folha da Manhã, having also written as a freelancer for the magazines Verus, ISTOÉ and Veja and the newspaper Coojornal, of the Rio Grande Do Sul Journalist's Union. In 1979, Barcellos reported about the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua; in the book Nicarágua:a revolução das crianças.
In 1982 he was hired by TV Globo, where he currently works.
Works
[edit | edit source]Books
[edit | edit source]- 1979 – Nicarágua: a revolução das crianças.
- 1992 – Rota 66: a história da polícia que mata
- 2004 – Abusado: o dono do Morro Dona Marta
Stage play
[edit | edit source]- 2007 – Osama: The Suicide Bomber of Rio (co-written with Célia Helena for the Conexões project)
References
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External links
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