Julett Pineda

Reporter, Efecto Cocuyo (Venezuela)

(Video of Pineda’s presentation at ISOJ2019 is below her bio, along with an article from the ISOJ team)

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Julett Pineda is a Caracas-based reporter for Efecto Cocuyo, a Venezuelan independent online news outlet. She has covered elections, human rights violations and the recent political crisis. In 2018, she won second place in the National Investigative Journalism Contest of the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad de Venezuela for a joint investigation into corruption at the Orinoco Mining Arc. She currently focuses on issues related to health access, malnutrition and public health policies.

Pineda was part of the panel “Global roundup: Journalism in the age of authoritarians, populists and polarization” at ISOJ 2019.

Read the story covering Pineda’s panel here.