PETER DORIA

Pedro Doria is currently a Knight Latin American Fellow at Stanford University. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Doria attended Federal University in Rio de Janeiro. He began his career in journalism while still in college, working as a columnist for Macworld Brazil in 1995, the executive-editor of the Internet portal at Globo TV in 1996, and a writer for O Dia newspaper in 1998. From 2000-2002, he was a senior editor and columnist for Foreign Affairs and No.com.br, a Slate-like online magazine, and became the magazine’s first paid journalist blogger. He was also a columnist for the Sunday Magazine of Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. Since 2005, he has been a technology columnist and writer of foreign and religious affairs for O Estado de S. Paulo and the Week in Review Supplement of that paper. In 2005, he won the Deutsche Welle's Best of Blogs award for the best weblog in Portuguese and the Caixa Award on Social Reporting for his three-part series about a city near the Amazon Forest. Since 2007,he has been an independent weblogger. In 2008, he won the Best Blogs Brazil award for Politics. Doria is the author of four books, including the first published book in Brazil about the Internet (1995).