Harold Emert on Muck Rack

Harold Emert

Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Covers:  Everything from crime to culture to politics, sex scandals to sports.
Doesn't Cover: .going personally into Brazil' s drug- infested slums

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Harold Emert’s Biography

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Born raised and educated in nyc where I first began to work for ny Daily Mirror and Herald Tribune as a copy boy and as a cub reporter for the Ithaca jornal. Worked in SAfrica, Israel, Germany and since 1973 Brazil.
Have had the pleasure to work as an aide to the greatest tab journalists from the UK including Dave Williams, Sharon Churcher, Barry Wigmore and Paul Henderson covering biggest Brazilian- based stories including Josef Mengele´s bones in Sao Paulo,the aftermath of the Jean Charles…

What was your first job as a journalist?

copy boy at NY Mirror summers ,Herald Trib as copy boy who snuck in a story which made the paper Ithaca(NY) Jornal covering court

Have you ever used a typewriter?

yes started out on one at the Brazil Herald writing about fugitive train robber Ronald Biggs

How is social media changing news?

I was brought up when I first started with the Brits to "knock on the door" today have to Google and check fbook etc for pics,friends etc

Awards

Society of Professional Journalists Award

2009 - CULTURAL journalism

Report on modern art museum Inhotim Cultural Institute in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais An innovative approach in the wilderness keeping up with the modern art world. Award was from ACIE, the Foreign Correspondents Association of Rio de Janeiro at ceremony at the Banco do Brasil.