From the Newsroom*
São Paulo – The Brazil-Arab News Agency (ANBA) is a finalist in the Massey Ferguson Journalism Award for the third consecutive time. Article “The food that sprouts in the drought”, by journalist Isaura Daniel, was chosen as a finalist in the Internet category in the seventh edition of the award. Last year ANBA won the award in the category for article “The race for the perfect chicken”, also by senior editor Isaura Daniel.
In 2007, an article by executive editor Alexandre Rocha, about the quality of beef produced in Rio Grande do Sul, was also among the finalists. In 2006, reporter Geovana Pagel was also among the finalists with an article about flower production in northeastern Brazil.
The names of the finalists of this edition of the Massey Ferguson Journalism Award were disclosed on Wednesday (30), during the Agrishow, an agribusiness fair that is taking place in the city of Ribeirão Preto, in the interior of the state of São Paulo. Apart from ANBA, other articles competing in the Internet category are “Coffee – 2206, the year of producers”, by journalist Lessandro Carvalho, from Agência Safras, and article “Cotton – Agência Safras shows the map of boll weevils in Brazil”, by journalist Rodrigo Vargas, from the same agency. The winner should be announced in the month of July, in an event in São Paulo.
Apart from Internet, the award also includes categories TV, photographic journalism, newspaper and magazine. In the TV categories the finalists include César Furlan Dassie and Priscila Brandão, of program Globo Rural, on Globo TV, and Manoel Dirceu Martins, of EPTV, from Ribeirão Preto. In photographic journalism those competing are Antonio N. de Almeida, of newspaper Pioneiro, from Rio Grande do Sul, Edimar Soares, of newspaper O Povo, from Cerá, and Tadeu Vilani, of newspaper Zero Hora, also from Rio Grande do Sul.
In the newspaper category the finalists are journalists Evandro Bittencourt, of Jornal da Bioenergia, from the midwestern Brazilian state of Goiás, Fernando Canzian da Silva, of Folha de S. Paulo, and Maristela Crispim, of newspaper Diário do Nordeste, from Ceará. In the magazine category those competing are Antonio Moreira and Elizabeth Costa, from Panorama Rural, and Martha Rita Batista, from Produtor Rural.
ANBA has already won seven journalism awards since it was established, in September 2003. In 2004 and 2005, the ANBA team won the National Confederation of Transport (CNT) award in the Internet category. In 2006, the agency won the National Association of Railway Transport (ANTF) award in the website category and the Brazilian Machinery Manufacturers Association (Abimaq) award in the online category.
In that same year, it ranked among the three finalists for the online category of the Massey Ferguson Award, which it won in the 2007 edition. Also last year, the agency was granted the CNC 25 Years Special Report Award, in the internet category, granted by the National Coffee Council (CNC), was a finalist for the Alexandre Adler Award for Journalism in Health, and won the Embrapa Journalism Award in the internet category
*Translated by Mark Ament
