Olympic Legacy Coverage: A Year Since the Games
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 [...]
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.
REPORT LAUNCH: ‘Favelas in the Media: A Comparison of Eight Global Outlets’
Clique aqui para Português REPORT LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 4, 2017—One year after the Olympics, Catalytic Communities (CatComm) has published a new report [...]
“Favelas in the Media: How the Global Narrative on Favelas Changed in Rio’s Mega-Event Years” Report Launched with Panel at Casa Pública
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 [...]
RELEASE: Catalytic Communities Launches Final “Favelas in the Media” Research Report
Clique aqui para Português December 2016—Catalytic Communities’ longitudinal study on international media portrayals of Rio’s favelas ahead of the 2016 Olympics [...]
The Tiny NGO That Changed Reporting on Rio’s Favelas – CatComm Featured in The Development Set
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 [...]
CatComm’s Theresa Williamson Visits Santa Marta Favela with Matt Lauer and The TODAY Show
Watch Theresa Williamson with Matt Lauer, visiting the Santa Marta favela on The TODAY Show [...]
Olympics Press Materials: Favela contacts, stories, events for great Rio2016 coverage
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 [...]
What is a Favela? [ANIMATED VIDEO]
July 19, 2016–Catalytic Communities launched ‘What is a Favela,’ a short animated educational video describing the historic and socio-cultural basics of [...]
CatComm Supports Critical Vox Video “2016 Olympics: What Rio doesn’t want the world to see”
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 [...]
Guernica Interviews CatComm Executive Director Theresa Williamson
On June 15, 2016, Guernica Magazine published an in-depth interview with Catalytic Communities‘ Executive Director Theresa Williamson. Interviewed by writer and [...]