User:Gmafort

Mafort was born in Nova Friburgo, a mountain town of Rio de Janeiro State/Brazil. She has a degre in Journalism, form the Universidade Federal Fluminense, in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. Mafort began her career as a television producer for "Press Observatory," the first media watch program of its kind in the country. She was the executive producer of TV Brasil and an economics and political reporter for Jornal do Brasil, before joining TV Globo, where she was a multimedia reporter and editor. Working with the design department there, she helped create a pattern of infographics database for its web site. She also earned a certificate in Knowledge Management from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. In 2010, she was nominated by the John S. Knight Fellowships Program, at Stanford University, as the Latin American Fellow. Her focus of research is Collaborative Journalism: how to use the strenght of citizen journalism to build social reporting.