Paula Moura

Former Digital Reporter

Formerly a FRONTLINE digital reporter, Paula Moura originally joined FRONTLINE in 2021 as a Tow Journalism Fellow. Previously, she was a field producer on the film The Territory, which received a Special Jury Award: Documentary Craft and Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

Her prior works includes serving as a producer for The New York Times on the investigative video The Amazon is Still Burning. Blame Beef, which received an Award of Excellence from Pictures of the Year International, and as a field producer for the video Abortion in the Time of Zika, which received a First Place Award from Pictures of the Year International. She has collaborated with the Times since 2015, as well as with ProPublica and Foreign Policy. She has also worked as a journalist in Japan and has reported for outlets including The Washington Post, NPR, WNYC, Latino USA, Nashville Public Radio and The Atlantic, and she contributed to the award-winning series Rotten and the documentary Our Godfather.

Moura has a master’s degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, with a concentration in international reporting and a focus on Latin America and the Latin American diaspora. Moura, who is from Brazil, has covered the Brazilian Amazon region extensively, with work appearing in major Brazilian news outlets including Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo and Revista Piauí. Moura holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of São Paulo.

Twitter:

@PaulaMoura_san

Email:

FrontlineEditors@wgbh.org

Languages Spoken:

English, Portuguese, Spanish

Location:

Boston

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