Claudio Tognolli

Cláudio Júlio Tognolli (1963) is a Brazilian journalist,[1] musician[2] and writer.[3] He is a Professor of Journalism at the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo (Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo, ECA/USP) and a board member at the Brazilian Association for Investigative Journalism. He has a regular commissioned column on Brazilian AOL and has published 12 books. His latest book is "Assassinato de Reputações", with former Brazilian secretary of Justice, Romeu Tuma Jr.

In April 2014 Tognolli was hired to keep his personal blog at the Yahoo! site.[4] Claudio has written, in just 4 years, 4 biographies: rock singer Lobão (150,000 copies sold); Editora Nova Fronteira; soccer specialist Milton Neves; Companhia Editora Nacional editing house; Roy Cicala (who was a sound engineer for John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, and Frank Sinatra); and Saraiva Editing House.

Tognolli is a Brazilian member at International Consortium of Investigative Journalism and has worked for 13 years as founding-director for www.abraji.org.br.

He started his career of reporter at Veja magazine. He followed with work on the newspapers Folha de S. Paulo, Jornal da Tarde, and on magazines Caros Amigos, Rolling Stone Brasil, Galileu, Joyce Pascowitch and Consultor Juridico. He has worked also at radios CBN, Jovem Pan and Eldorado. We was co-founder of the news site www.brasil247.com, and left two years after.

Claudio started to study music, jazz, rock, country and classical guitar very young with Marcus Rampazzo and Hans-Joachimm Koellreutter.

He has travelled to more than 35 countries to make special investigations. He has achieved the biggest prizes in journalism, like Grande Prêmio Folha, Prêmio Jabuti and Prêmio Esso.

From 2011 to 2014 two of his 12 books have made it to the top of the bestsellers list in Brazil: a biography of rock singer Lobão and a biography of a former Brazilian secretary of justice.

His latest book, Assassinato de Reputações, released on 11 December 2014, has sold in 4 months 120,000,00 copies. And it is on the first place of bestsellers from the Veja magazine for 15 weeks. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalism quoted the book as one of the most important journalism pieces in the world.[5]

On 15 April 2014, Tognolli was hired by Yahoo! to keep an investigative journalism blog there.

In July 2014, Tognolli was upgraded at University de São Paulo (USP) to "professor associado" (livre-docente), or Phd teacher, due to his studies on methodology of journalism. His investigation thesis was a book about the life of Francisco Bocayuva Catão, to be published in 2015. Catão, one of the richest men in Brazil, had one of his exportation ports, at Bahia, confiscated by the military government after former Brazilian president, Juscelino Kubitschek, announced in 1965 in Paris that Catão was the true civil candidate for presidential election in that year. Tognolli's book will reveal untold stories about 1964's Coup D'État in Brazil, mainly because Catão was Vernon A. Walters's best friend in Brazil.

Bibliography

His production databases can be checked at Lattes-Usp: http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4745191P4 or http://www3.eca.usp.br/?q=node/172

His 30-year career in investigative journalism has led him to be the Brazilian representative at International Consortium of Investigative Journalism http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/icij/journalists/interactive_map/

Tognolli writes for Rolling Stone magazine and Joyce Pascowitch magazine, since #1 issues. He is a master of psychoanalysis of communications (a Tim Leary pupil http://revistagalileu.globo.com/Revista/Galileu/0,,EDG84038-7855-204-5,00-ANTES+DO+ADEUS.html and a PhD in philosophy of sciences http://cienciahoje.uol.com.br/noticias/genetica/autor-acusa-discurso-falacioso-da-midia-sobre-dna/)

Prizes

References

  1. ↑ Camnitzer, Luis (15 October 2009). On Art, Artists, Latin America, and Other Utopias. University of Texas Press. pp. 190–. ISBN 9780292719767. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  2. ↑ Revoluções por minuto "Claudio Julio Tognolli , 46 anos, não vendeu mais de 3 milhões de discos em sua carreira. Não fez parte da banda mais popular do país nos anos 80, não tocou em todos os programas de televisão, não foi objeto de descabelamento de milhares de mulheres nem inveja de milhares de homens no Brasil. Ele escreveu sete livros, trabalha hoje na biografia do músico Lobão e é professor, além de um dos maiores jornalistas investigativos do país."
  3. ↑ LOC
  4. ↑ https://br.noticias.yahoo.com/blogs/claudio-tognolli/
  5. ↑ http://www.icij.org/blog/2012/11/icijs-investigative-reading-list

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