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The Intelligence: segment on saving rainforests and illegal gold mining in the Amazon, March 17, 2023

ABC: interview on Late Light Live about Lula’s first month, January 25, 2023

Deep Dish Podcast: panel on defending democracy post-insurrection in Brazil, January 19, 2023

News Agents Podcast, interview about the insurrection in Brasília, January 9, 2023

BBC World Service, interview about the insurrection in Brasília, January 9, 2023

The Intelligence: segment on invasion of Brasília by supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, January 9, 2023

The Intelligence: segment on Lula’s inauguration, January 5, 2023

BBC Newshour, interview about Lula’s inauguration, January 1, 2023

World Affairs Council: webinar on results of Brazil’s election, November 2, 2022

BBC World Service, radio interview about Brazil’s election results, October 31, 2022

BBC News, television interview about Brazil’s election results, October 31, 2022

Lula wins the Brazil election: short film for Economist Films, October 31, 2022

BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, interview about Brazil’s election, October 31, 2022

The Intelligence: segment on results of Brazil’s election runoff, October 31, 2022

The World This Weekend: interview about Brazil’s election for BBC Radio 4, October 30, 2022

Brazil elections: The enduring threat of Jair Bolsonaro, Economist Films, October 15, 2022

Americas Quarterly Podcast: Interview about the first round of Brazil’s election, October 5, 2022

The Intelligence: segment on Brazil’s surprisingly tight first-round election result, October 3, 2022

Economist films: clip of an exclusive interview with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, September 30, 2022

The Intelligence: segment on interview with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, September 29, 2022

Is the Bolsonaro era about to end? Interview with ABC radio, September 26, 2022

The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros, interview for BBC Documentary Series, September 5, 2022

Rise of the Bolsonaros, interview for PBS feature-length documentary, August 2022

Columbia University’s Institute for Latin American Studies: presentation to Brazil seminar, January 26, 2022

The Intelligence: segment on Bolivia’s lithium dreams, December 10, 2021

The Intelligence: segment on race and police killings in Rio de Janeiro, September 6, 2021

Interview about dinosaurs in Bolivia for The John Bachelor Show on CBS, September 3, 2021

The Intelligence: segment on why Bolivia has thousands of dinosaur footprints but no bones, August 30, 2021

The Intelligence: segment on Bolivia’s war of narratives about 2019, August 9, 2021

ABC Nightlife: Could Bolsonaro be gearing up to “do a Trump” and allege voter fraud in 2022? August 1, 2021

The Intelligence, Patrons’ taint: Brazil’s pork-barrel politics, June 15, 2021

The Jab: why was Latin America hit so hard by covid-19? June 14, 2021

The Economist subscriber event: Can Brazil survive Bolsonaro? June 11, 2021

Interview with Podcast Rio Bravo: um retrato do brasil atual segundo a The Economist, June 11, 2021

Interview about Brazil for CBS: Eye on the World with John Bachelor, June 8, 2021

The Economist Film: Can Brazil survive Jair Bolsonaro? June 4, 2021

CNN Interview with Fareed Zakaria: Latin America’s covid crisis, May 27, 2021

Chicago Council on Global Affairs’s Deep Dish Podcast, April 8, 2021

Interview with the Latin American Studies Association’s Econopolitics podcast about Brazil, March 18, 2021

The Wilson Center: Rethinking Brazilian Development, webinar with Matthew Taylor, February 24, 2021

The Wilson Center: Whither Democracy? webinar about El Salvador’s legislative elections, February 10, 2021

Foreign Correspondence: interview about my journalism career with Jake Spring, January 31, 2021

The Intelligence, Costly disbelief: covid-19 ravages Brazil again, January 21, 2021

The Intelligence: Más MAS? Segment on Bolivia’s re-run election, October 16, 2020

Bolivian TV’s Asuntos Centrales: interview with Tuffi Aré about the country’s election, October 15, 2020

The Intelligence, segment on covid-19 and collective trauma, The Economist Radio, September 1, 2020

“Leading Britain’s Conversation: interview with Shelagh Fogarty about covid-19 and collective trauma,” September 2, 2020

The Intelligence: segment on missionaries, isolated indigenous groups, and fears that Brazil’s no-contact policy is being dismantled, The Economist Radio, July 17, 2020

BBC World News: segment on Jair Bolsonaro testing positive for covid-19, BBC News, July 7, 2020

Babbage: segment on track and trace, the promises, limitations and risks, The Economist Radio, June 24, 2020

The Intelligence: segment on why Brazilians aren’t social distancing, even as the daily death toll is the highest in the world, The Economist Radio, June 3, 2020

The Economist subscriber event: Reporting on the covid-19 pandemic around the world, May 28, 2020

The Intelligence: segment on Brazil’s “land-grabber’s bill” and how covid-19 is exacerbating deforestation in the Amazon, May 20, 2020

Press Pool with Julie Mason: interview about how the pandemic is creating new opportunities for organised crime, SiriusXM, May 18, 2020

Late Night Live: interview with Jonathan Green about the trio of crises facing Jair Bolsonaro, ABC Radio National, May 6, 2020

The World Tonight: interview with Razia Iqbal about the resignation of Brazil’s justice minister and his accusations against Jair Bolsonaro, BBC Radio 4, April 29, 2020

The Intelligence: segment on Jair Bolsonaro’s dismissal of the covid-19 threat, The Economist Radio, April 7, 2020

The Intelligence: segment on how foreign correspondents are passing the time in lockdown, The Economist Radio, March 27, 2020

The Intelligence: segment on how Brazilians are dominating professional surfing, The Economist Radio, February 24, 2020

The Intelligence: segment on inequality in Brazil and how a flagship anti-poverty program is being dismantled, The Economist Radio, February 3, 2020

The Intelligence: segment on resignation of Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales, The Economist Radio, November 10, 2019

“Leading Britain’s Conversation: interview with Iain Dale about the spat between Jair Bolsonaro and Emmanuel Macron over the Amazon,” LBC, August 27, 2019

The Intelligence: segment on runaway deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, The Economist Radio, August 8, 2019

The Intelligence: segment on feminism in Brazilian funk music, The Economist Radio, May 7, 2019

“The Intelligence: The future of water, Brazil’s government is tested, and China’s science fiction,” The Economist Radio, March 4, 2019

“The Week Ahead: The price of the American government shutdown,” The Economist Radio, January 25, 2019

“Brazil’s new president takes office and takes a stab at politics as usual,” interview with WNYC’s The Takeaway, January 2, 2019

“The Week Ahead: Bolsonaro’s bold agenda,” The Economist Radio, December 28, 2018

“Brazil’s upcoming elections and the echoes of Trump in 2016,” interview with Columbia Journalism Review’s The Kicker, October 19, 2018

“How to run for president from a hospital bed,” interview with Vox’s Today Explained, October 3, 2018

“Brazil elections: Why Are They So Divisive?”, interview with BBC World Service’s Business Daily, October 3, 2018

“The Week Ahead: Beware Bolsonaro,” The Economist Radio, September 21, 2018

“The Week Ahead: Brazil’s telenovela election,” The Economist Radio, August 10, 2018

“The Week Ahead: Power to the populists,” segment about truckers’ strike in Brazil, The Economist Radio, June 1, 2018

“God and the Gang,” film about Salvadoran gang members finding religion in prison, The Economist Films, May 22, 2018

“The Week Ahead: Israel 70 years on,” segment about story on integrating refugees, The Economist Radio, April 20, 2018

“The Week Ahead: A murder mystery,” segment about cover story on Latin America’s homicide epidemic, The Economist Radio, April 6, 2018

“Salvadoran evangelicals work to change lives of gang members,” interview with NPR Weekend Edition, March 18, 2018

“Business Matters: Miami Bridge collapses,” interview with BBC World Service about how religion is helping Salvadoran gang members, March 16, 2018

“The Week Ahead: You’re fired,” feature on escaping gang life in El Salvador, The Economist Radio, March 16, 2017

“Tasting Menu: Audio highlights from the February 17th, 2018 edition,” The Economist Radio

“The Week Ahead: A weird and disputed election,” segment on an exclusive recording that suggests fraud in Honduras’s presidential election, The Economist Radio, December 1, 2017

“Tasting Menu: Audio highlights from the October 28th, 2017 edition,” The Economist Radio

“Tasting Menu: Audio highlights from the November 4th, 2017 edition,” The Economist Radio

“The week ahead: Crisis Management,” segment on Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, The Economist Radio, October 8, 2017

“Money Talks: Latin lessons from J Balvin,” interview with Latin America’s top reggaeton star, The Economist Radio, September 19, 2017

“The week ahead: Wir schaffen das,” segment on the destruction of Hurricane Irma in the Caribbean, The Economist Radio, September 15, 2017

“The week ahead: A war of words, for now,” segment on El Salvador’s abortion ban, The Economist Radio, August 9, 2017

“Salute Your Shorts,” segment on gang violence on Long Island, VICE Magazine Podcast, June 12, 2017