São Paulo – ANBA is a finalist for this year’s edition of the CNT Journalism Prize, of the National Federation of Transport. The article “The train that doesn’t progress” was written by the journalist Alexandre Rocha, published on August 14th, and is competing in the Internet category. The CNI released the shortlist this Wednesday (3rd).
The piece shows that the size of the Brazilian railway grid has barely increased over the last few years, and the industry’s share in the country’s transport matrix, even though major projects have been announced. The material was published on the eve of the government’s announcement of a new concession program for railways and roads.
The agency is running up against four other finalists in the category: Admilson Veloso da Silva, of Minas Gerais’ Hoje em Dia portal, , with the story “Vida de caminhoneiro” (Life as a truck driver); Bianca Pyl, of São Paulo’s Repórter Brasil News Agency, with “Caminhoneiros são os trabalhadores que mais morrem no Brasil” (Truck drivers are the workers who die the most in Brazil); Ed Wanderley, of the Diário de Pernambuco website, with “Recifense vai de carro até a esquina” (Recife citizens drive their cars even to the nearest corner); and Roberta Soares, of Pernambuco’s JC Online & NE10, with a special report on the obstacles to mobility.
The prize also includes Print, Radio, Environment, Photography, and Television categories. Each has five finalists, except for the last two, with six each.
The jury comprises journalists André Luiz Costa and Fernando Mitre, both from Grupo Bandeirantes, economics journalist Luís Nassif, of Agência Dinheiro Vivo, Blog do Nassif and website Brasilianas.org, engineer Neise Ribeiro, who specializes in environment and transport, and journalism professor Nilson Lage. CNT has informed that the winners should be announced in the first half of November.
ANBA has won the CNT Prize’s Internet category twice, in 2004 and 2005, the first one with an overview of logistics in Brazil, and the second with a story on crop transport in Mato Grosso. In all, the agency has won 11 different journalism prizes since it was launched by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, in 2003.
