Patrícia Campos Mello
Brazilian journalist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patrícia Campos Mello is a Brazilian journalist. She works at Folha de S.Paulo as a news reporter and columnist. In 2020, she received the Maria Moors Cabot Award, from Columbia University. In 2019, she received the International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists. In 2018, she received the King of Spain International Journalism Award. And in 2020 she was awarded the Ordre National du Mérite by the government of France. In 2016, she received the Troféu Mulher Imprensa award.[1][2]
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In 2018, she published a series on a supposedly illegal financial scheme in support of Jair Bolsonaro’s candidature for the Presidency of Brazil, involving massive use of social media.[3] In this context, she was targeted by hate messages on the internet.[4] In 2018, the US news magazine Time selected "The Guardians and the War on Truth" as "Person of the Year", honoring investigative journalists worldwide. Mello was also explicitly mentioned in the tribute.[5]
For her work, in 2019 she received the International Press Freedom Award from the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ).[6][7] In 2017, she received the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Award. And in 2018, she received together with her team the King of Spain International Journalism Award and the V Petrobras Journalism Award.[8][6][9]
She was reported from several conflict zones, such as Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan. She covered the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.[8] She covered the 2020-2021 covid-19 pandemic in Brazil, reporting from public hospitals and shelters. She is the author of the best-selling book "Máquina do Ódio - notas de uma repórter sobre fake news e violência digital", and "Lua de Mel em Kobane".