Today, FRONTLINE, PBS’s flagship investigative documentary series, and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY are pleased to announce the selection of Paula Moura as the 2021 candidate for a yearlong enterprise journalism fellowship, funded by The Tow Foundation.

A 2018 graduate of the Newmark J-School, Moura virtually joined FRONTLINE’s reporting ranks this week. During her fellowship, she will collaborate with FRONTLINE’s reporters, producers and digital media creators, contributing to ongoing reporting across platforms, from digital and transmedia projects to the documentary and podcast series.

“We look forward to continuing our enterprise journalism fellowship with the Newmark J-School and are delighted to welcome Paula to our team,” said Raney Aronson-Rath, FRONTLINE’s executive producer. “We remain grateful to The Tow Foundation for their generous support and their dedication to bolstering our investigative reporting capacity.”

“We are delighted that another of our talented alumni has the opportunity to work closely with a news organization as outstanding as FRONTLINE, thanks to the support of The Tow Foundation,” said Sarah Bartlett, dean of the Newmark J-School.

Moura previously worked as a producer for The New York Times on the investigative video “The Amazon is Still Burning. Blame Beef,” which received a 2020 Award of Excellence from Pictures of the Year (POYi). She has also reported for outlets including ProPublica, The Washington Post, NPR, WNYC, Latino USA, The Atlantic and Foreign Policy.

While at CUNY, Moura concentrated in international reporting, with a focus on Brazil, Latin America and the Latin American diaspora. Her work has been published in major Brazilian news outlets, and she has worked as a reporter in Japan.

 

About FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE, U.S. television’s longest running investigative documentary series, explores the issues of our times through powerful storytelling. FRONTLINE has won every major journalism and broadcasting award, including 95 Emmy Awards and 24 Peabody Awards. Visit pbs.org/frontline and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube to learn more. FRONTLINE is produced by GBH and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Major funding for FRONTLINE is provided by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation, the Park Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation.

About The Tow Foundation
The Tow Foundation, established in 1988 by Leonard and Claire Tow, funds projects that offer transformative experiences to individuals and create collaborative ventures in fields where they see opportunities for breakthroughs, reform, and benefits for underserved populations. Investments focus on the support of innovative programs and system reform in the fields of juvenile and criminal justice, medicine, higher education, and culture. For more information, visit http://www.towfoundation.org.

About the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, founded in 2006, is the only public graduate journalism school in the northeastern U.S. With affordable tuition and extensive scholarship support, it prepares students from diverse economic, racial and cultural backgrounds to produce high-quality journalism. The school offers two master’s degree programs: a Master of Arts in Journalism and an M.A. in Social Journalism. In Fall 2016, it launched a unique Spanish-language program to train bilingual students interested in covering Latino and Hispanic communities in the U.S. and abroad. For more information, visit https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/.