Pedro Aguiar

Current

• teaching assistant at UFRJ

Past

• staff writer & researcher at Rede Globo
• junior editor at EFE
• reporter at Jornal do Brasil

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Education

• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
• TOL - Transitions Online
• Universidade Federal Fluminense

• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

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Pedro Aguiar’s Summary

Multimedia journalist specialized in International News, particularly Eastern Europe and former USSR republics. Experienced in print, broadcasting, online news media, and news agency service. 3+ years of working/internship professional career. Foreign experience includes reporting on terrorism & conflict.

Currently researching new information technologies & networks for news agencies, for Master's thesis.

Field areas: International Journalism, World News, Foreign Correspondence.
News Agencies, Online/Wire Service and Information Networks.
Focus on Eastern Europe and former USSR, political and cultural issues.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1981).

Pedro Aguiar’s Specialties:

Writing, editing, copy editing, translating (Spanish-Portuguese; also English-Portuguese, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian-Portuguese).
World news, foreign policy issues.

Writing for TV, Radio and Print news media. Digital Audio & Video editing.

Languages spoken: Portuguese (mother tongue), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), Serbian (beginner), Russian (beginner).

Pedro Aguiar’s Experience

• teaching assistant

  UFRJ

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  teaching assistant for International Journalism classes, undergraduate; School of Communications, University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Pedro Aguiar’s Education

• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

  Master's , Communication and Culture , 2008 — 2010 (expected)

  Research field: Media and Socio-Cultural Mediations
  Research object: Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool and International Information Systems for the Third World

  Activities and Societies:

  research group on Media Ownership (under Political Economy of Communication)

• TOL - Transitions Online

  Training Course , Foreign Correspondence , 2006 — 2006

  Summer training course on Foreign Correspondence for international journalists, focused on Central and Eastern Europe. July 2006, Prague (Czech Republic).

• Universidade Federal Fluminense

  Cinema 2002 — 2006

  Film & Video undergraduate course.

• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

  Bacharelado em Comunicação Social, habilitação em Jornalismo , Journalism , 1999 — 2006

  Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication, Journalism (2002-2006)
  Graphic Design (1999-2001, unfinished)

  Activities and Societies:

  PET-ECO/UFRJ (Special Training Programme at the School of Communications - governmental scholarship), Monitoria (assistant teaching) for International Journalism chair, Vide Vídeo (student film & video exhibit), Rádio Interferência (college radio), Rizoma (bi-monthly college TV show)

Additional Information

Pedro Aguiar’s Interests:

International Journalism, World News, Foreign Correspondence. Eastern Europe, former USSR. Multimedia News Projects. Screenwriting for Broadcast and Film. Online & Radio News. Digital Audio/Video News Services. Peer-to-Peer Information Networks for International Journalism.

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