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Who's behind the news?
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Use of DataMarcelo Beraba invited another 44 reporters and editors from different vehicles and Brazilian states by email to join together in a new association. It was September 4, 2002.
The seminar Beraba referred to, entitled “Investigative Journalism: Ethics, Technique and Dangers”, had been held in Rio de Janeiro on August 31 of that year as a response to the murder of journalist Tim Lopes, kidnapped and tortured in Complexo do Alemão three months earlier.
In December 2002, around 140 journalists gathered in the Freitas Nobre auditorium, at the USP School of Communications and Arts, raised their hands and decided to join together in what today became Abraji.
The objectives stated in the association's statute remain the same eighteen years later: the professional development of journalists and the dissemination of the concepts and techniques of investigative reporting.
