By Laura Guido, Journalism intern. Supervised by Daniel Nardin
The Gabo Foundation will promote, between the 3rd and 7th of July, the 12th edition of the Gabo Festival, one of the largest and most respected journalism events in Latin America, which celebrates the legacy of Gabriel García Márquez: excellence, ethics and coherence in journalism. With an extensive program, the Gabo Festival will be in Bogotá, capital of Colombia, and will be attended by journalists from all over the world.
The coordinator of the Amazônia Vox project, Daniel Nardin, is one of the guests and will give the lecture “Solutions Journalism and local voices in climate coverage”, which will be one of the “master classes” of the event. The lecture will be on July 5th, at 11 am, at the Compensar Library.
In the official program, the call for the talk states that “stories focused on solutions can help deconstruct stereotypes about the Amazon. An important strategy – in addition to opening more space for local narratives – is to produce content that explains unfamiliar terms and expressions, especially for young people and teenagers, as does the Amazônia Vox platform, which relies on a database of contacts and professionals from the region”. The official website also highlights that “in this talk, the coordinator of Amazônia Vox will present the media education action carried out based on the climate reports produced by this platform as a way to engage and create new audiences. Among other reports, the series on urban waste in Belém (Brazil), host of COP30 in 2025, will be presented, made possible thanks to the collaboration of the Gabo Foundation and the Avina Foundation”.
Watch the episodes of the reporting series
Initiatives in Belém show how the COP 30 city can reduce waste generation - Episode 1
“Movimento Escola Viva” has a laboratory-house that stores more than 8 tons of garbage - Episode 2
Fashion and beauty market has alternatives to cause less impact on the environment - Episode 3
The program is extensive and, in addition to reading groups and listening sessions (lectures), there will be an awards ceremony for the finalists of the 2024 Gabo Award, which opens the event on July 3. The Gabo Award is made up of five categories: Text, Coverage, Image, Audio and Photography. In this sense, journalists from several countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Spain, the United States, El Salvador, Mexico, Portugal and Venezuela are competing. In this edition, Brazil is being represented by the media outlets InfoAmazonia, Folha de São Paulo, O Globo newspaper, TV Globo (GloboPlay) and Intercept Brasil. Each media outlet has a large group of journalists who will be able to take the award to their country of origin.
About the Gabo Foundation - The Gabo Foundation was created in 1995 by journalist Gabriel García Márquez and aims to promote journalism in Latin America based on ethics, excellence and coherence. It maintains partnerships with organizations around the world, such as the Ardila Lulle Organization (OAL), the SURA group, Bancolombia and the City of Medellín. After Gabo's death in 2014, the focus of those who continue with the Foundation is to consolidate Gabriel García Márquez's legacy for journalism and literature, who believed “in the journalist as an author, in ethics as non-negotiable conditions and in the power of good stories to transform reality”. The organization maintains a routine of workshops, videoconferences, funding calls and the Gabo Festival itself, with an audience of communicators from all over the world.