The Intercept Brasil Completes its First Year, With Plans to Grow Further

The Intercept Brasil turns one year old today. On our launch date of August 2 of last year, we explained our purposes and objectives by observing that “there is a hunger among Brazilians for alternative forms of reporting.” That hunger is grounded in the grim reality that the country “has long been dominated by a tiny number of powerful media institutions, almost all of which supported the 1964 coup and the subsequent 21-year brutal right-wing military dictatorship that followed, and which ar...