Research shows that more and more Americans are turning to non-journalistic sources for their information. Americans who voted for Donald Trump were especially unlikely to get their information from j...
Patricia Campos Mello
Patrícia Campos Mello is an editor-at-large and columnist at Folha de São Paulo, the largest newspaper in Brazil. For over 25 years, she has been covering international relations, technology, and politics, and has reported from over 60 countries. She was awarded the Columbia University Maria Moors Cabot award, the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Vladimir Herzog Special Award for Democracy and Justice, the International Committee of the Red Cross Prize for humanitarian journalism, and the King of Spain Journalism Prize.
She has been covering influence operations and tech regulation in Brazil, India and the US since 2014. Her investigative reporting led to changes in the electoral law in Brazil. She was Washington correspondent for the Estado de S. Paulo newspaper between 2006 and 2010. She covered the 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020 US elections, and the 9/11 attacks in New York in 2001. She covered the 2014, 2019 and 2024 elections in India.
Patrícia has a degree in Journalism from the University of São Paulo and a Master’s from New York University. She was an associate researcher at Columbia University in 2021/2022, working on a project about internet regulation and electoral disinformation. In the last few years, she spent time in Ukraine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Turkey, Afghanistan and Kenya reporting on conflict and refugees. In 2024, she covered the fall of Assad in Syria and the war in Lebanon. She was the only Brazilian reporter to cover the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, in 2014 and 2015.
She is the author of Lua de Mel em Kobane, a book about Syrian refugees who resisted the Islamic State siege in Kobane, and Máquina do Ódio, about influence operations and freedom of the press.
Eventi IJF 2025
Enemy of the people? The role of the media in an era of rising authoritarianism
The media plays a critical role in upholding democracy: presenting facts, promoting civic engagement and holding power to account. Despite journalists’ best efforts, we continue to see an alarming t...
The weaponisation of nostalgia is a pernicious trend infecting democratic deliberation and affecting the outcome of elections around the world. ICFJ's Disarming Disinformation project has tracked thi...
Social media, intelligenza artificiale ed elezioni: prospettive dal Sud del mondo sull’“Anno della democrazia”
2024 will bring more voters to the polls than ever in history, with elections planned in at least 64 countries, many of them in key global south countries with fragile information ecosystems. Technolo...
This panel presents the first insights from the new global research project Disarming Disinformation, which has seen researchers embedded in multiple international newsrooms to study their responses t...
Freedom of the press is considered a fundamental pillar of successful democracies, yet trust in independent media is being eroded by the nefarious application of political power to manipulate public o...
Australia’s path-breaking 2021 legislation, which got Google and Meta to pay more than 300 million dollars to media outlets, is being watched by countries around the world that want to emulate it. H...
The 2022 Brazilian elections worked as a battlefield for the new type of war against democracy: the use of coordinated, highly-funded and state-supported networks of misinformation to win and then sub...
La violenza online contro giornaliste: una piaga globale che richiede azioni urgenti
Le giornaliste sono sempre più spesso bersaglio di violenze online, legate a campagne di disinformazione orchestrate da Stati, attori politici, reti complottiste e misogini. Sono diventate bersaglio ...
Mentre le minacce al giornalismo indipendente continuano ad aumentare, la legge è usata come arma per compromettere la sicurezza dei giornalisti e censurarne i lavori. I media liberi e indipendenti ...
L'amministrazione di Bolsonaro ha costruito una macchina di disinformazione conosciuta come il "gabinetto dell'odio", gestito dai figli del presidente e da consiglieri, allo scopo di diffondere diffon...
Sconfiggere i troll: polarizzazione, disinformazione e giornalisti presi di mira
Nel 2019, la giornalista brasiliana Patricia Campos Mello, che in passato aveva lavorato come inviata da zone di conflitto, ha assunto la sua prima guardia del corpo come conseguenza di una spietata c...
Last year, Brazilian political journalist Patricia Campos Mello, who had previously reported from hot spots and conflict zones around the world, hired her first ever bodyguard in the wake of a relentl...
Il Brasile di Bolsonaro, la deriva autoritaria e l'attacco ai media indipendenti
La presidenza di Jair Bolsonaro in Brasile ha visto un inasprimento degli attacchi ai giornalisti e alla libertà di informazione. Minacce, intimidazioni, denunce pretestuose, campagne di diffamazione...
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