born in 12/29/1981

PEDRO AGUIAR Brazilian, single, no

children
JOURNALIST São Paulo, Brazil
contacts:
PROFESSIONAL GOALS: World News, Foreign Reporting, News +55 11 9566-6644
Agencies and Wire Services, Foreign Correspondence
pedreco@gmail.com
TIONEDUCA

EDUCATION:
Master’s degree, Communications - UFRJ (University of Rio de Janeiro)
research on News Agencies and the Third World. 2008.1-2009.2. Brazilian govt scholar
Bachelor’s degree/undergraduate, Journalism - UFRJ (University of Rio de Janeiro)
2002.1-2006.2
Bachelor’s degree/undergraduate, Film - UFF (University of Niterói)
2002.1-2007.1 (unfinished)

OTHER COURSES:
Covering War Zones – practical+theoretical course held by the Brazilian Army (Center
for Training Peacecorps, CIOpPaz) and the United Nations office in Rio de Janeiro
(UNIC-Rio), taught by military, diplomats and journalists (Rio, May/2009) (certified)

TOL Summer 2006 Foreign Correspondent Training Course – two-weeks course

aimed at Central/Eastern Europe and former USSR, held by Transitions Online (TOL)
and taught by professionals of the BBC, The Economist and The Boston Globe (Prague,
Czech Republic, July/2006) (certified)

LANGUAGES: Portuguese (native speaker)

English (fluent in writing/speech/translation)
Spanish (fluent in writing/speech/translation)
Serbian/Bosnian/Montenegrin (basics, written understanding)
RCAREEROOMNEWS

• Opera Mundi (2009/Oct.-present) – deputy editor; world news website

• Carta Capital (2009/Feb.13) – “A meio caminho” (6-page story on the first anniversary
of the independence of Kosovo, from Priština; nation-wide weekly news magazine)
• TV Globo (2008/Feb.-Jul.) – writing and researching for website
www.memoriaglobo.com.br; articles on world news TV coverage, correspondents and
editors, etc.
• EFE news agency (2007/May-Dec.) – junior editor; international news service
• Folha de S.Paulo (2006/Sep.3) – “Ataques na Turquia trazem à tona nova
organização curda”, free lance story on new Kurdish terrorist group (from Istambul);
leading Brazilian daily newspaper
• Jornal do Brasil (2006/Apr.-Jun.) – reporter/staff writer at Foreign News Desk

• O Globo + CBN radio network (2005/Feb.-Dec.) – intern (print+broadcast)

• EFE news agency (2004/Jun.-2005/Jan.) – intern

CURRICULUM VITÆ PEDRO AGUIAR 1

RCAREEINGTEACH • Teaching Assistent for International Journalism course at UFRJ, teaching
undergraduate students (2008-2009)

• teaching classes as guest lecturer at UFRJ and UFF –International Journalism (2009)

• teaching workshops Networked Alternative Reporting – practical+theoretical

workshop conceived and taught twice: Free Media Forum (July/2008) and Intercom
Sudeste (May/2009), both held at UFRJ; how to use new info-com technologies and
social media to distance reporting, alternative media, gatekeeping, web 2.0, twitter

• undergraduate teaching assistent for International Journalism course at UFRJ

(2005-2006)
CTIONPRODUARSCHOL

BOOK
• AGUIAR, P. (2008). Jornalismo Internacional em Redes [Networked International
Journalism]. Rio de Janeiro: Prefeitura do Rio/Secretaria Especial de Comunicação
Social, 120 p.

SCHOLAR ACTIVITY
• researcher at PEIC – Study Group on Political Economy of Information and
Communication, at University of Rio de Janeiro (since 2008)
• Master’s level scholarship by the Brazilian government (CNPq) – (2008-2010)
• undergraduate scholarship by academic excellence through the Programa Especial
de Treinamento (Special Training Program, Ministry of Education, Brazil); research on
Communication & Culture, working on Geopolítical Conflicts (2002-2006).
• SBPJor 2009 – 7th National Convention of Journalism Researchers (University of
São Paulo, Brazil) – presenting paper News Agency Journalism vs. Internet: dialogue
and conflict (in Portuguese), co-authored with Rafael Pereira do Rego.
• ULEPICC 2009 – 7th International Congress of the Latin Union of Political
Economy of Information, Communication and Culture (Madrid, Spain) – presenting
paper Marx explains Reuters: notes on the political economy of news agencies
(Universidad Carlos III).
• Intercom 2009 – 32nd Brazilian Congress of Communications Science (Curitiba,
Brazil), presenting paper Strategies for Space in South-South Communication: from
non-alignment to collaborative production (in Portuguese).
• Rede AlCar 2009 – 7th National Congress of Media History (Fortaleza, Brazil) –
presenting paper Footnotes for a History of News Agency Journalism (in Portuguese).
• CONECO 2008 – 3rd Congress of Graduate Students of Communication (Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil) presenting paper South-South Cooperation in Communication as
hegemony stategy: the Grupo de Diarios América (in Portuguese).
• Rede AlCar 2008 - 6th National Congress of Media History (Niterói, Brazil)
presenting paper For a History of World News Journalism in Brazil. (in Portuguese)
• FNPJ 2006 – 9th Convention of the National Forum of Journalism Teachers
(Campos, Brazil) – presenting paper New Practice for Teaching International Journalism:
the UFRJ experience (in Portuguese), co-authored with Mohamed ElHajji, PhD.

CURRICULUM VITÆ PEDRO AGUIAR 2