Centre for International Studies
CIS Development Seminar
Wings of Desire:
Detecting truth and bias
in news media under the
leftist winds in Latin
America
Speaker: Elizabeth Carvalho
TVGlobo, Brazil
Chair: Harriet Friedmann
Department of Sociology, University of Toronto
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
108N - Seminar Room, North House
Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place
Register online at:
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=2772
Elizabeth Carvalho is Interviewer and Executive Editor of Milenio, a program
dedicated to the discussion of important ideas of the 21st century, and broadcast by
Globonews, the Brazilian national 24-hour cable television of TV Globo, the largest
network in Brazil. She currently serves as her networks special reporter on emerging
events in Latin America.
Centre for International Studies
CIS Development Seminar
Carvalho has interviewed thinkers as well as political leaders across contemporary
Latin America, including Presidents Evo Morales of Bolivia, Michelle Bachelet of
Chile, Nestor Kirschner of Argentina and Luis Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil. As a print
journalist, Carvalho has written for <i>Correio da Manhã, Jornal do Brasil, Veja,
Revista Afinal, O Globo</i> and <i>O Estado de São Paulo</i>. She was a
correspondent for <i>Veja Magazine</i> and <i>Jornal do Brasil in Paris</i> in 197071. Her prizes include VII Prêmio Abril de Jornalismo and VII Prêmio Vladimir Herzog
for Amnisty and Human Rights. Carvalho co-authored the series <i>Os Anos 70</i>
writing about Journalism on TV along this decade, and she translated from Spanish to
Portuguese the novel <i>El Vuelo del Gato</i> by the Cuban writer Abel Prieto. She
is concluding the researches for a new project -<i>Lessons from a Plural
Movement</i> - a book about the results, new tendencies and proposals that have
arisen in the last 5 years of struggle against neo-liberal globalization, focusing upon
the first and largest assembly of a global left, the World Social Forum.
Carvalho's past television experience includes research at the Centre de
Documentation de la Radio Telévision Algerienne, in Algiers. She also worked as
Editor of the evening news at TV Globo Network, Executive Editor of Journalism at
TV-Bandeirantes Network and documentarist for different Brazilian channels. She
wrote several scripts for a series broadcast by the public education network of Brazil.
Carvalho has studied Journalism at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and
Mass Communication with Edgard Morin at École Pratique d´Hautes Études, Paris.
Co-Sponsored by Latin American Studies