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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
GNM press office

Letter to Brazilian government from global media organisations

9 June 2022

To:

President Jair Bolsonaro

Carlos Alberto França, Minister of Foreign Affairs

General Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, Minister of Defence

We write to express our extreme concern regarding the safety and whereabouts of our colleague and friend Dom Phillips, and Bruno Araújo Pereira, with whom Dom was travelling. Dom is a globally respected journalist with a deep love for Brazil and its people.

As you will know from numerous press reports, Dom and Bruno have now been missing in the Amazon for more than three days. Their families, friends and colleagues have repeatedly requested assistance from local, state and national authorities and emergency services.

We are now very concerned by reports from Brazil that search and rescue efforts so far have been minimally resourced, with national authorities slow to offer more than very limited assistance.

We ask that you urgently step up and fully resource the effort to locate Dom and Bruno, and that you provide all possible support to their families and friends.

Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief, Guardian News & Media

On behalf of:

Sally Buzbee, executive editor, the Washington Post

Dean Baquet, executive editor, the New York Times

Sérgio Dávila, editor-in-chief, Folha de S.Paulo

Nancy Barnes, senior vice-president of news and editorial director, NPR

John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief, Bloomberg News

Julie Pace, SVP & executive editor, the Associated Press

Juan Forero, South America bureau chief, Wall Street Journal

Marina Walker Guevara, executive editor, Pulitzer Center

Rozina Breen, editor-in-chief and CEO, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Stephen Engelberg, editor-in-chief, ProPublica

Paul Webster, editor, the Observer

Jason Ukman, managing editor, Stat

Thiago Domenici, director, Agência Pública de Jornalismo Investigativo

Rhett Butler, founder and CEO, Mongabay

Peter Wolodarski, editor-in-chief, Dagens Nyheter

Roger Hodge, deputy editor, the Intercept

Felipe Maciel, executive director, epbr agency

Phil Chetwynd, global news director, AFP

Roula Khalaf, editor, the Financial Times

Emmanuel Colombié, Latin America director, Reporters Without Borders

Lynette Clemetson, director, Wallace House Center for Journalists

Quinn McKew, executive director, Article 19

Jodie Ginsberg, president, Committee to Protect Journalists

Gregory Feifer, executive director, Institute of Current World Affairs

Lindsey Hilsum, international editor, Channel 4 News

Christina Lamb, chief foreign correspondent, Sunday Times

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, presenter Channel 4 News

Jon Lee Anderson, biographer and staff writer, the New Yorker

Leonardo Sakamoto, director, Repórter Brasil

Nelly Luna Amancio, editor-in-chief, OjoPúblico

Katia Brasil, executive director, Amazônia Real

André Petry, editor-in-chief, Revista Piauí

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief, The Atlantic

Danielle Belton, editor-in-chief, HuffPost

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