Agência Brasil’s 33rd-anniversary challenge: promote public journalism
Wednesday, May 10, marks the 33rd anniversary of Agência Brasil, the public news agency that provides Brazilian citizens with free, high-quality information on matters of public interest in a contextualized manner.Agência Brasil was established in 1990 as a government news agency linked to Radiobras, the federal government's communications company. Its website was launched in 1996. During the first Lula government in 2003, the agency expanded its editorial line to cover not only government-related news but also social participation in the development of public policies and citizenship.After four years, Agência Brasil became a part of a public communication conglomerate called Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC), which was established to put into practice the concept of complementarity ...