The multimedia report “How a road can tear the heart of the Amazon”by Micael Pereira, José Cedovim Pinto and Alberto César Araújo, published in Expresso in June 2023, won the third edition of the Fundação Mestre Casais/CEiiA Journalism for Sustainability Awards, in the digital journalism category.
The work is an investigation into a road measuring almost 900 kilometers long, built during the Brazilian military dictatorship, in the 1970s, and swallowed by the jungle less than 20 years later, which successive governments have tried to rebuild, threatening an area of 300 thousand kilometers squares in the still well-preserved heart of the Amazon.
The journalist from Christiana Martins Express won second place in the television categorywith a major report on illegal gold mining on the Madeira River, in the Amazon, “Dirty Gold”, produced for SIC with image reporter José Silva and Rui Berton, Diana Matias and Pedro Morais.
Both works — about the road and about gold mining — are part of the Bruno and Dom Projectan investigation coordinated by the Forbidden Stories consortium and funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Dom Phillips, a British journalist living in Brazil, and Bruno Pereira, an expert on indigenous peoples of the Amazon, were murdered in a remote area near the border with Peru on June 5, 2022.
In the television category, first place in the Fundação Mestre Casais/CEiiA Journalism for Sustainability Awards went to another great SIC report, “What we’re going to wear tomorrow”, by Miriam Alves, Rogério Esteves, Rui Berton, Diana Matias and Patrícia Reis .
In the press category, first place went to the work “Monumental trees: the stories of three green giants in Portugal”, by Aline Flor and Tiago Bernardo Lopes, and second place awarded to an article published in Notícias Magazine by Ana Tulha and Reinaldo Rodrigues , “The desert is not that far away.”
In the radio category, awards were won, ex-aequo, by a report by Cristina Lai Men, from TSF, “Bicycle train extended to more schools”, and “Sea of all of us”, by Lília Almeida and Tiago Matias, from RDP Açores.
Still in the digital category, second place was given to a documentary produced by Público, “Coastal erosion: what if in a few years our beach is no longer there?”, by Tiago Bernardo Lopes, Aline Flor, Andréia Azevedo Soares, Clara Barata , Nicolau Ferreira, Patrícia Carvalho and Renata Mendes.
