In the last few years, with the eruption of wars within Europe and the intensification of fascism, funding for journalism shifted its focus to the geographies most affected by it, in Eastern Europe an...
Ricardo Esteves Ribeiro
Ricardo Esteves Ribeiro is a co-founder and journalist at Fumaça, an investigative journalism podcast focused on injustices and inequalities that creates serialized audio-documentaries. In the past, through sometimes years-long investigations, Fumaça has covered the private security sector, European anti-refugee policies, the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the climate crisis, natural-gas drilling and mental healthcare. The project is on track to become the first audience-funded newsroom in Portugal, while keeping its journalism nonprofit, ad-free, radically transparent, and without paywalls, investors, or corporate-sponsored content.
