Main Seminar: THE BBC IN LATIN AMERICA: Aligning Journalism and Academia to Make Sense of Today's World

Convener(s): Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Speaker(s): Nathalia Passarinho, BBC

Nathalia Passarinho is an editor at BBC Americas, part of the BBC World Service. She coordinates a visual journalism team and leads editorial initiatives and investigative reporting focused on Latin America. Nathalia joined the BBC in London in 2017 after completing an MSc in Latin American Studies at the University of Oxford. At BBC Brasil, she oversaw coverage of the 2022 presidential election and produced a documentary exploring why evangelical women voted for Jair Bolsonaro. Prior to joining the BBC, Nathalia spent eight years as a political correspondent in Brasília for G1/TV Globo, covering the Presidency, the National Congress, and the Supreme Court. Her international reporting includes coverage of the UN General Assembly in New York, G20 summits in South Korea and Japan, COP26 and COP27 in Glasgow and Sharm El Sheikh. In 2019, she received the Roche Health Journalism Award for her investigation into DIY abortion in WhatsApp groups.