Fellows & Editors

Clare Richardson

Trip:: Fellows 2017
Affiliation:: Deutsche Welle
Country:: Brazil
Year:: 2017

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Clare Richardson is a journalist based in Berlin, where she works for the German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle TV. Previously she was the World Editor of Reuters.com and The Huffington Post in New York City. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from New York University, where she completed a dual major in the Honors Politics program and Spanish + Latin American Studies. In 2014 she was an Arthur F. Burns fellow. Examples of her work and thoughts on life in Berlin are available at www.whereisclare.com.

Richardson was awarded a prior fellowship with IRP, reporting from Mozambique in 2014.

Stories

A Carnaval of Resistance

by Richardson, Clare | February 27, 2017

In Rio, locals joke that Carnaval starts one day earlier every year. On a weekend in mid-January, a full month before the five-day event’s official kick-off on Feb. 24, hundreds of...
Olympic Abandonment

by Richardson, Clare | February 23, 2017

The behemoth sports stadiums on the sprawling grounds of Rio’s Olympic Park were built to impress international visitors for the 2016 Summer Games. Today, they are eerily deserted. The space re-opened...
Rio street band drums up support for Carnival without harassment

by Richardson, Clare | February 22, 2017

She didn't have a musical bone in her body, but that didn't stop Renata Rodrigues from starting a samba street band in Rio de Janeiro two years ago. When the 4...
Trump Towers Rio still hasn’t been built—and the residents it pushed out couldn’t be happier

by Richardson, Clare | February 13, 2017

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil –– José Paulo Simplicio de Souza was devastated when the government forced him out of his home near the commercial center of Rio de Janeiro to...
Rio hits the brakes on controversial favela cable car

by Richardson, Clare | February 03, 2017

The black cables scarring the skyline of Complexo do Alemao stopped running months ago. For the residents of the favelas below, they're a constant reminder of how even one of Rio...
New choir brings opera to Mozambique

by Richardson, Clare | December 01, 2014

A dozen singers belt out Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in a classroom at the Pedagogical University in Mozambique. The country has just two professional opera singers; this year, the duo...
Pick Your Poison

by Richardson, Clare | November 04, 2014

Combating malaria is a tricky tradeoff in Mozambique. The mosquito-born illness is the leading killer of children, and the CDC-supported ministry of health is aiming to change that with a door-to-door campaign...
The Logistical Nightmare of Providing Health Care in Rural Areas

by Richardson, Clare | October 29, 2014

If you fall ill in rural Mozambique, your options are devastatingly limited. If you had the chance to pick a place from the bad options, however, I have a feeling you couldn...