Beyond the Headlines: Environmental Journalism in the Amazon

International award-winning science journalist Marcelo Leite, PhD, will discuss the practice of environmental and scientific journalism in perilous times. The event will be hosted and moderated by Professor Julie Klinger.

Marcelo Leite, PhD is an award-winning science reporter and columnist for Brazil's most important newspaper, Folha de São Paulo. He writes on scientific, environmental, and related political topics in Brazil and internationally. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (1998) and Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan (2012), he has also worked at the science desk of the daily Stuttgart Zeitung in 1989 and covered the reunification of Germany for Folha. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). His dissertation, Total Biology: Hegemony and Information in the Human Genome, was published by São Paulo State University Press (UNESP). He has authored many youth and popular science books, such as Clones Demais (Too Many Clones, fiction), Os Alimentos Transgênicos (Transgenic Foods, 2000), A Floresta Amazônica,(The Amazon Rainforest, 2001), and Darwin (2009), among others. He has won numerous distinguished journalism awards in Brazil and abroad, and comes to Boston University directly from reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

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When 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm on Monday, December 4, 2017
Location 121 Bay State Road