|
Fernanda Santos
Affiliation during program: Freelance print, New York
Country Focus: Colombia
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Program:
Spring 2005
|
|
|
Fernanda Santos joined the metropolitan news staff at The New York Times in September 2005. Prior to that, she spent three years at the New York Daily News, where she covered a wide range of stories, including the explosion of space shuttle Columbia, the deadly fire at a Rhode Island nightclub and the rescue of nine miners trapped in a coalmine in rural Pennsylvania. Fernanda also worked at The Eagle-Tribune in Lawrence, Mass.; at The Union-News and Sunday Republican in Springfield, Mass.; and as a police reporter for a daily newspaper in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the country where she was born. She was a Spring 2005 Fellow at the International Reporting Project, a 2003 Fellow at the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families and a co-writer of “Latinos in the United States,” a reference guide published by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She has a bachelor's degree in sociology from Pontificia Universidade Catolica in Rio de Janeiro and a master's degree in print journalism from Boston University.
|
