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Finalists

The finalists of the 17 categories of the eighth Embratel Press Award, that will distribute the gross amount of R$ 166 thousand for up to 19 works, have been announced on November 22.

This year, 1,131 journalistic works have been presented by 1,306 reporters from all over the country. The prizewinners of the 17 categories and of the Barbosa Lima Sobrinho Grand Prix, plus a possible nomination for an Honorable Mention, will be announced in the evening of December 6, during a ceremony to be held at Canecão in Rio de Janeiro.

The names of the finalist works and their authors, including the regional categories already announced, are the following:

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE (Free Theme)

Arco, flexa e fuzil (Bow, arrow and rifle) - Extra Magazine
Antero Gomes

As ambulâncias da fraude (The ambulances of fraud) - Correio Braziliense Newspaper
Lúcio Vaz
Marcelo Rocha
Leonel Rocha
Ana Maria Campos
Ugo Braga
Gustavo Krieger
Luciene Soares

Conexões Criminosas (Crime Connections) - Tráfico (Traffic) Series - O Dia Neewspaper
Márcia Brasil

Exército recupera armas após fazer acordo com facção de traficantes (Weapons recovered by the Army after compromising with drug dealers) - Folha de São Paulo Newspaper
Raphael Gomide
Sérgio Torres

O eldorado das ilusões - Morte e vida de um sonho de Severino (Eldorado of Illusions - Beginning and end of a Severino dream) - Jornal do Commercio/PE
Ciara Carvalho

PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK

Atropelamento e fuga (Running over and death) - A Tarde Newspaper
Xando P.

Os meninos da luz vermelha (The red light boys) - Diário do Comércio Newspaper/ SP
Marcos Fernandes

Perdeu... (Surrender...) - O Globo Newspaper
Marco Antônio Cavalcanti

Socorro! Saúde agoniza (Help! The Health is Dying) - O Dia Newspaper
Lu Teixeira

Violência gera violência - (Violence brings violence) - O Globo Newspaper
Fábio Rossi

CULTURAL WORK

Arte sem fronteiras (Art without Borders) - Rede Minas de Televisão (Minas TV Network)
Jane Saldanha

Fortaleza revista (Fortatelza reviewed) - O Povo Newspaper/ CE
Felipe Araújo
Manoella Monteiro
Ana Cecília Mesquita
Débora Dias
Ana Mary C. Cavalcante
Rafael Luís

História do Congado ( Congado History) - Integração TV (Divinópolis - MG)
Fernanda Lília

Manuel Bandeira - Carta para Pasárgada (Manuel Bandeira - Letter to Pasargada) - Jornal do Commercio Newspaper/ PE
Carol Almeida
Schneider Carpeggiani
Marcelo Pereira
Renato Lima

Vauthier - A história que a França desconhece e o Brasil esqueceu - (Vauthier - the history France is unaware of and Brazil has forgotten) Diário de Pernambuco Newspaper
Vandeck Santiago

INVESTIGATIVE STORY

24 horas (24 hours) - O Globo Newspaper
Elenilce Bottari
Paulo Marqueiro e equipe

A farra dos vereadores turistas (The party of the tourist councilors) - RBSTV
Giovani Grizotti

Diamantes ilegais (Illegal diamonds) - Jornal Estado de Minas
Lucas Figueiredo
Maria Clara Prates
Fernanda Odila
Paulo Henrique Lobato
Sandra Kiefer
Leonardo Augusto
Fábio Fabrini
Pedro Ferreira

Máfia dos corpos (The mafia of bodies) - O Dia Newspaper
Maria Mazzei
João Antônio Barros
Flávia Duarte

Venda de cadastros ameaça consignado do INSS (Sale of personal data threatens Social Security member) - O Dia Newspaper
Mônica Pereira
Bruno Menezes
Luciene Braga


RADIO

Educação - Um atalho para o desenvolvimento (Education - a shortcut to development) - Band News FM Radio
Rodrigo Miotto

Entrevista irmãos Cravinhos (Interview with the Cravinhos brothers) - Jovem Pan Radio
Anchieta Filho

Esquecida, perdida, roubada...cadê a minha infância? (Abandoned, lost, stolen... where is my childhood?) - CBN Radio
Luciana Marinho

Insegurança Pública (Public Insecurity) - Bandeirantes Radio
Paulo Galvão

Nazistas sulinos (Southern Nazis) - Gaúcha Radio
Cid Martins


SPORTS

"Eu sou Heleno, enterrado vivo" (I'm Heleno, buried alive) - As paixões de Heleno (The passions of Heleno) - O Tempo Newspaper/ MG
Maurício Miranda
Pedro Blank

Copa no sertão, pelo rádio (The soccer world cup in the country, by radio) - Globo TV
George Guilherme

Nostalgia da bola (Missing the ball) - Correio da Bahia Newspaper
Pablo Reis

Os passos da Paixão (The steps of Passion) - SPORTV
Lúcio de Castro

Racismo e futebol (Racism and soccer) - Zero Hora Newspaper
Jones Lopes da Silva

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

A batalha diária dos socorristas voluntários de Gravataí (The daily fight of the Gravataí volunteer helpers) - Bandeirantes TV
Ricardo Azeredo

Biblioteca T-Bone (T-Bone Library) - Senado TV
Solange Calmon

Casa Paulo Freire - Senado TV
Solange Calmon

Construindo São Paulo todos os dias (Building São Paulo every day) - CBN Radio
Fabíola Cidral

Isso é um crime (This is a crime) - Época Magazine
Eliane Brum


TELEVISION

Célula-tronco (Stem cell) - Globo TV
Luiz Carlos Azenha
Maria Cândida

Os mulas (The mules) - Record TV
Sylvestre Serrano
Paulo Panayotis

PCC sem fronteiras (PCC without borders) - Record TV
Lúcio Sturm

Riocentro - Globo TV
Mônica Marques
Milton Abirached

Transplantes (Transplants) - Rede TV
Rita Lisauskas

CINEMATOGRAPHIC WORK

Dossiê farra do boi (Bull's Feast File) - RBSTV
Augusto Dolenga

Flagrante de uma cidade sem lei / Falsa blitz no Rebouças (Snapshot of a lawless city - false police raid in the tunnel) - Globo TV
Rogério Lima

Incêndio em ônibus em Rio Grande (Fire in a Rio Grande bus) - TVE-RS
Rogério Andrade

Paciente cai da maca em hospital público (Patient falls from stretcher in public hospital) - Record TV
Fernando Gonçalves

São Paulo punguistas (São Paulo pickpockets) - Globo TV
Wilson Araújo


FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Das dorf der Euro-Indianer (The village of the euro-indians) - Der Spiegel Magazine
Jens Glusing

Desarollo-Brasil: La musica vence la pobreza - Inter Press Service
Mario Osava

Guardian of the Stone Age tribes - Daily Telegraph Magazine
Andrew Ernest Downie

Nuns vs. Guns - Austalian Broad Casting Corporation
Eric Campbell

Uma visita ao paraíso (A visit to paradise) - ARD TV
Thomas Aders


TELECOMMUNICATIONS (specialized media)

A terceira onda (The third wave) - Frecuencia Latinoamerica Magazine
Ana Paula Lobo

Ligue seu escritório ao mundo (Connect your office to the world) - PC World Magazine
Luís Fernando Tinoco

Mundo sem fio (Wireless world) - PC World Magazine
Daniel dos Santos

O futuro das telecomunicações (The future of telecommunications) - Computerworld Magazine
Ana Paula Oliveira
Ceila Santos

Quanto mais perto melhor (The Closer the better) - Decision Report
Silvia Giurlani


TELECOMMUNICATIONS (non-specialized media)

Blogs - Os novos campeões de audiência (Blogs - the new best audience rating)- Época Magazine
Ricardo Amorim
Eduardo Vieira

Clonagem de orelhões (Cloning Pay stations) - RBSTV (RS)
Giovani Grizotti

Nordeste conectado (Connecting the Northeast) - Diário de Pernambuco Newspaper
Silvia Bessa

Os sem-telefone (The phoneless) - O Globo
Mirelle de França
Luciana Rodigues
Letícia Lins

Telecomunicações - Passado, presente e futuro (Telecommunications - Past, present and future) -- Correio Popular Newspaper/ Campinas(SP)
Paulo Martinelli


REGIONAL STORIES

South Region

"O retrato do Pampa" (Portrait of the Pampa), by Carlos Etchichury and Nilson Mariano (Zero Hora/RS newspaper);

"A Farra do Boi" (Bull's Feast), by Francis Silvy (Santa Catarina Network- SBT/SC);

"A encruzilhada do Centro" (The Center in a Crossroad), by Itamar Melo (Zero Hora/RS newspaper).

Southeast Region

"Drogas" (Drugs), by Leida Reis, Mateus Parreiras, Carlos Calaes and branches (Hoje em Dia/MG newspaper);

"Adeus, futuro" (Goobye, future) by Eduardo Auler (Extra/RJ newspaper);

"21 anos depois. As lições dos CIEPS" (21 years later, the lessons of the CIEPS), by Paulo Marqueiro, Selma Schmidt and Ruben Berta (O Globo/RJ newspaper);

"Infância Manipulada" (Manipulated Childhood), by Bruno Menezes (O Dia/RJ newspaper).


Northeast Region

"Dossiê seqüestro" (Kidnapping Report) , by Cláudio Ribeiro, Demitri Túlio, Luiz Henrique Campos and Ricardo Moura (O Povo/CE newspaper);

"Saúde x Lixo" (Health x Garbage) by Maristela Crispim (Diário do Nordeste/CE newspaper);

"Retratos da infância" (Childhood portraits), by João Valadares, Claudia Vasconcelos, Ciara Carvalho and Verônica Almeida (Jornal do Commercio/PE newspaper);

North Region

"Mercúrio contamina recém-nascido" (Newborn contaminated with mercury) , by Ronaldo Brasiliense (O Liberal/PA newspaper);

"O delírio da morte" (Death delirium), by Castelo Branco and Orlando Faria (Correio Amazonense/AM newspaper);

"Vidas mutiladas, vidas recuperadas" (Mutilated lives, recovered lives), by Silvio Martinello (A Gazeta/AC newspaper)

Midwest Region

"Amores possíveis" (Possible Loves), by Conceição Freitas (Correio Braziliense/DF newspaper);

"O entorno do Distrito Federal" (The surrounding area of the Federal District), by Antônio Castro (Globo TV /DF);

"Órfãos de guerra" (Orphans of war), by Ana Beatriz Magno (Correio Braziliense/DF newspaper)