Natália Viana


Natália Viana is an independent investigative journalist from Brazil. She began her career as a reporter at the age of 21 in Caros Amigos magazine. Today she is the director of the Public Agency for investigative journalism and chosen by Julian Assange to translate and publish first-hand Wikileaks documents about Brazil.

Since 2011, Natália Viana is one of the directors of Public, the country's first investigative journalism agency. Together with reporters Marina Amaral and Tatiana Merlino, her colleagues, she devised the agency to make "pure" journalism and raise the level of public information.

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Natalia Viana graduated from Pontificia Universidad Católica de São Paulo (PUC / SP) in 2001 and began her career in 2002 as a reporter for Caros Amigos magazine. He collaborated with national and international media such as BBC, The Guardian, The Independent, Sunday Times, Folha de São Paulo, O Globo, Carta Capital, Opera Mundi, Pacifica Network and Canadian Broadcast Corporation.

In 2010, it began to coordinate in Brazil the systematization and dissemination of diplomatic documents emptied by Wikileaks and acted as companion of the organization in the country. For the work, won the Women's Trophy Press 2011.

In 2011, he started directing the Public Agency.

In 2013 she received the Trophy Women Press again.

In 2013, with its investigative reporting series on the ousting of President Fernando Lugo in Paraguay, Natalia Viana was a finalist for the Gabriel García Márquez Journalism Award.

In 2013, Natalia Viana was considered by Galileo Magazine as one of the 25 most influential people in the Internet in Brazil.

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