From the Newsroom*
São Paulo – The Brazilian National Confederation of Transport (CNT) held last night (15) the ceremony for the CNT Journalism Award 2005. In all, according to the entity, 220 pieces competed in the categories printed press, radio, television, photography and internet. ANBA won in the internet category for the second year in a row.
The journalist Alexandre Rocha, author of the winning article, won the prize from the CNT vice president, Newton Gibson. The contemplated piece was a series of reports about the transport infrastructure in the midwestern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, entitled "Mato Grosso: Private sector invests to overcome logistics bottlenecks".
At the ceremony, commanded by journalist Chico Pinheiro, from TV station Globo, were awarded also Fabio Schivartche and Alencar Izidoro, from the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, with the article "Fraud in Transports Tenders in São Paulo"; Emerson Maurício Ferraz, from TV Globo, with the report "Clandestine Trip"; Custódio Coimbra, from the newspaper "O Globo" with the picture "Boi na Linha" (which is a play on words, meaning "problems in sight" and also "oxen on the railway track"); and Cid Martins, from the radio of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, Rádio Gaúcha/RBS, with the article "BR 116 – A Time Bomb", referring to the highway BR 116.
The winner of the Great CNT Journalism Award was the photography reporter from the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo, José Luis da Conceição, for the picture "In the mud on Cuiabá-Santarém highway"
The jury was formed by Liliane Cardoso, from TV Globo; Luiz Recena Grassi, newsroom director at the newspaper Tribuna do Brasil; Márcia Detoni, from Radiobras (Agência Brasil); Carlos Henrique Rocha, professor in the masters course in transportations at the University of Brasilia (UNB); and Rosângela Vieira Rocha, journalism professor at UNB.
The CNT Journalism Award exists for about 12 years. Last year, the entity included for the first time the internet category. ANBA won with the series of articles "Transport in Brazil is twice as expensive as in developed countries", written by journalists Alexandre Rocha, Giuliana Napolitano, Geovana Pagel and Isaura Daniel.
*Translated by Silvia Lindsey
