Check out the complete Series of community media profiles here. “I never took courses in layout, design, branding or audiovisual presentation,” Michel Silva will tell you. “I learned everything on the go.” When Silva founded the online community […]
Clique aqui para Português Check out the complete Series of community media profiles here. Sixteen communities. 130,000 residents. 40,000 newspaper copies. These kinds of numbers demand a highly organized operational strategy, and that is just what Silvia Noronha […]
On Thursday August 28, the Favela Observatory hosted a seminar in Complexo da Maré to launch the official publication of the Right to Communication & Racial Justice project. The project promotes community access to media production […]
Clique aqui para Português Check out the complete series of community media profiles here. On Saturday August 23, staff from Jornal O Cidadão (‘The Citizen’ Newspaper) distributed copies of the newspaper across the sixteen favelas that form Complexo da […]
The World Cup 2014 and the preceding leadup have seen an unprecedented level of attention to Brazil’s favelas. Much of the conversation has been productive, magnifying and expanding debates around top-down interventions, police violence, favela tourism, gentrification processes […]