Leda Balbino Fonseca Silva

Leda Balbino Fonseca Silva is a journalist experienced in leading foreign desks in Brazil, including at O Globo, Folha de S.Paulo and Estado de S.Paulo newspapers, and GloboNews all-news cable TV. She has reported from Cuba, Ecuador, Estonia, Israel, Jordan and the U.S. In 2021, she completed an MA in International Relations and Global Communications at MMU in the UK. She also wrote "Digital Memory in Brazil: A Fragmented and Elastic Negationist Remembrance of the Dictatorship" (in press), assessing how the Bolsonaro government constructed the memory of the Brazilian dictatorship (1964-1985) on social media. 

News organization: O Globo (Brazil)

Partners: Virginia Solana (Argentina)