Media Center
Catalytic Communities supports journalists committed to deepening understanding and knowledge on favelas in constructive ways that support their inclusive development. We do this both by speaking directly with journalists as a source, providing story ideas, and connecting journalists with a range of community voices on-the-ground, and by publishing RioOnWatch, through which media outlets can keep abreast of favela perspectives and latest events, gain nuance and perspective from researchers and observers, and get ideas for stories that have yet to be told.
One year after the Olympic Games, the legacy for the city of Rio is not what was promised by the Mayor, the Brazilian Olympic Committee, and the IOC. Below we compile
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Clique aqui para Português REPORT LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 4, 2017—One year after the Olympics, Catalytic Communities (CatComm) has published a new report
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On Thursday, December 15, Catalytic Communities (CatComm), the NGO that publishes RioOnWatch, released its report Favelas in the Media: How the Global Narrative on Favelas
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Clique aqui para Português December 2016—Catalytic Communities’ longitudinal study on international media portrayals of Rio’s favelas ahead of the 2016 Olympics
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The article below about Catalytic Communities’ work with journalists in the years leading up to and during the Olympics was published on August 24, 2016, in The
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Watch Theresa Williamson with Matt Lauer, visiting the Santa Marta favela on The TODAY Show
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With 16 days to the start of the Rio Olympic Games, it’s crunch time for reporting on the city of Rio and the transformations that have taken place since Rio was
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July 19, 2016–Catalytic Communities launched ‘What is a Favela,’ a short animated educational video describing the historic and socio-cultural basics of
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Catalytic Communities was thrilled to collaborate with the production of this critical 8-minute documentary viewed over 1.1 million times in two days on Facebook and 1.4
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On June 15, 2016, Guernica Magazine published an in-depth interview with Catalytic Communities‘ Executive Director Theresa Williamson. Interviewed by writer and
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