Caco Barcellos

Caco Barcellos
Born (1950-03-05) March 5, 1950
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Nationality Brazilian
Occupation 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

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

Books

  • 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

  • 2007- Osama:The Suicide Bomber of Rio (co-written with Célia Helena for the Conexões project)

References

  1. ↑ "Caco Barcellos - Portal dos Jornalistas". www.portaldosjornalistas.com.br (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-10-04.
  2. ↑ "Prêmio 2004 - 59º Prêmio Jabuti 2017". 59º Prêmio Jabuti 2017 (in Portuguese). 2014-03-10. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
  3. ↑ "Escritores recebem hoje o Prêmio Jabuti - Cultura - Estadão". Estadão (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-10-04.
  4. ↑ "Caco Barcellos". Trip (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-10-04.
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