Caco Barcellos

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.

Caco Barcellos
Born (1950-03-05) 5 March 1950
Porto Alegre, Brazil
NationalityBrazilian
OccupationJournalist, reporter and writer

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". portaldosjornalistas.com.br (in Portuguese). Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  2. "Prêmio 2004 – 59º Prêmio Jabuti 2017". 59º Prêmio Jabuti 2017 (in Portuguese). 10 March 2014. Archived from the original on 20 March 2018. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  3. "Escritores recebem hoje o Prêmio Jabuti – Cultura". Estadão (in Portuguese). Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  4. "Caco Barcellos". Trip (in Portuguese). Retrieved 4 October 2017.
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