
Rui Araujo, Portugal, is an award-winning investigative reporter who has covered wars in Angola, Zaire, Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia and particularly East Timor, the former Portuguese colony under Indonesian rule.
Rui Araujo, Portugal
He produced a highly acclaimed documentary, leading the first Portuguese television crew allowed onto the island after the 1975 Indonesian invasion. He is a former stringer for Radio France Internationale, O Jornal, TSF Radio and is one of the founders of Grande Reportagem, a monthly newsmagazine. In 1987, Araujo reported for CBS News on the Iran-Contra scandal. Araujo has won nine journalism awards for television and print reporting. A graduate of the Sorbonne in Paris, Araujo was a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University in 1991. He wrote three thrillers (À Queima-Roupa, Lisbon Killer, and A Amante Fatal). He is also the author of a non-fiction book on East Timor, published in 1985 and a contributing writer to Corruption Notebooks (Center for Public Integrity). Araujo is a freelance investigative reporter for Portuguese daily newspaper Publico and for French weekly newsmagazine Le Point.
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