Agência Pública is a Brazilian investigative and independent journalism agency. It was founded in 2011 by the reporters Marina Amaral, Natália Viana and Tatiana Merlino.
It is currently run by Marina Amaral and Natália Viana.
Agência Pública has received multiple awards for having produced excellent reports on subjects of public interest
with the objectives of strengthening the right to information, helping to qualify the democratic debate, and promoting human rights.
The agency distributes its content free of charge, including to other sites and platforms to republish their reports, under the
Creative Commons Attribution NonDerivative license.
Projects
Support for independent journalism
In addition to its own reports, Pública distributes grants to: independent reporters to develop their stories, incubate journalism initiatives and launch the Independent Journalism Map in 2016.
The Agência Pública office is located in São Paulo and, since 2016, the organization has run the Casa Pública, the first Cultural Center of Journalism in Brazil.
Truco
Since 2014, the Agência Pública maintains a
fact-checking
Fact-checking is the process of verifying factual information, in order to promote the veracity and correctness of reporting.
Fact-checking can be conducted before (''ante hoc'') or after (''post hoc'') the text is published or otherwise dissem ...
project, Truco.
The project is dedicated to checking the rhetoric of politicians and personalities when they make relevant statements that lead to debates about the society. Truco checked the
2014 presidential elections and the
2016 municipal elections. It is one of fact checking projects which has the facts verification mark from
Google
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.
Funding
Pública is funded by various foundations, such as the
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is an American private foundation with the stated goal of advancing human welfare. Created in 1936 by Edsel Ford and his father Henry Ford, it was originally funded by a US$25,000 gift from Edsel Ford. By 1947, after the death ...
, Betty and Jacob Lafer Foundation, the
Open Society Foundations
Open Society Foundations (OSF), formerly the Open Society Institute, is a Grant (money), grantmaking network founded and chaired by business magnate George Soros. Open Society Foundations financially supports civil society groups around the wo ...
, the Oak Foundation, and when required, resorts to ''
crowdfunding
Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, typically via the internet. Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing and alternative finance. In 2015, over was raised worldwide by crow ...
'' to fund reporting.
Awards
Pública was the third most awarded Brazilian communication vehicle in 2016, a first of its kind feat for an independent publication according to the site "Mais Premiados."
In that same year, its director, Natália Viana was the most awarded reporter, for the rewards ''Comunique-se'' of Written Media Reporter,
''Gabriel Garcia Marquez'' in the category Text
and
Vladmir Herzog in the category Internet by special "100".
It was the first Brazilian media vehicle nominated to Freedom of the Press Award from
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RWB; french: Reporters sans frontières; RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization with the stated aim of safeguarding the right to freedom of information. It describes its advocacy as found ...
.
2016
*
Vladimir Herzog Award
Vladimir Herzog Award ( Portuguese: ''Prêmio Jornalistico Vladimir Herzog de Anistia e Direitos Humanos'') is a Brazilian award for journalists who excel in the coverage of human rights issues in the national press. It was created in 1979 by t ...
* Prêmio Gabriel Garcia Marquez
* Prêmio Comunique-se
* Prêmio José Lutzenberger de Jornalismo Ambiental
*
Troféu Mulher Imprensa
* Prêmio Délio Rocha
* Prêmio Petrobrás de Jornalismo
* Prêmio República
* Prêmio Direitos Humanos de Jornalismo
2015
* Prêmio Tim Lopes
* Prêmio Petrobrás de Jornalismo
* Prêmio Roche de Jornalismo em Saúde
* Online Journalism Awards
* Prêmio Direitos Humanos de Jornalismo
2014
* Prêmio SindhRio de Jornalismo e Saúde
* Prêmio MPT de Jornalismo
* Prêmio Direitos Humanos de Jornalismo
2013
* Prêmio HSBC – Jornalistas & Cia
* Troféu Mulher Imprensa
2012
* Prêmio HSBC – Jornalistas & Cia de Jornalismo Ambiental
* Prêmio Allianz Seguros de Jornalismo Ambiental
* Prêmio Direitos Humanos de Jornalismo
References
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External links
Official site
News agencies based in Brazil
Investigative journalism
Brazilian journalism