Sérgio Spagnuolo

Sérgio Spagnuolo is a Brazilian journalist, news product developer and entrepreneur, currently based in São Paulo. He is the founder and executive-director of Nucleo Jornalismo, an award-winning news organization that investigates the impact of digital technology in society. Spagnuolo is a pioneer of data journalism in Brazil, having founded in 2014 Volt Data Lab, Brazil's first data-driven news agency, where he has collaborated on, and led, dozens of projects for newsrooms and NGOs. He co-created Atlas da Notícia in 2017, Brazil's first open-source project mapping news deserts and local media initiatives. Additionally, his extensive newsroom experience includes work with Reuters, O Estado de S.Paulo, Aos Fatos, AméricaEconomia, Mergermarket, and Yahoo News Brasil. His reporting has been published by major Brazilian news organizations. Spagnuolo was an ICFJ-Knight Fellow, ICFJ TruthBuzz Fellow and a Tow-Knight Fellow at CUNY's Entrepreneurial Journalism Program.  He also served on the board of the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalists (Abraji).