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Ian Walker

Rio de Janeiro, Sydney
As seen in: F5 da Folha, BBC, BBC Mundo, Gizmodo en Español, News.com.au, The Daily Telegraph
Covers:  Travel, world, education, science, technology, feature, culture
Doesn't Cover: I never say never.
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Inside Brazil's hidden daycare economy

Inside Brazil's hidden daycare economy

bbc.com — Lindassi Pereira spends long days as a key player in Brazil's informal childcare economy. As a 'community mother', she looks after infants and toddlers shut out of daycare centres by the deficient public system. "It's as if I am their mum really," says Pereira, a 44-year-old from Embu das Artes in Sao Paulo state.
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Por que o brasileiro ama falar no diminutivo

Por que o brasileiro ama falar no diminutivo

bbc.com — BBC News Brasil's translation of my story into Portuguese.
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Por que o brasileiro ama falar no diminutivo

Por que o brasileiro ama falar no diminutivo

f5.folha.uol.com.br — My story syndicated by Brazil's largest newspaper.
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Why Brazilians love baby talk

Why Brazilians love baby talk

bbc.com — A story for BBC's Lost in Translation series, which examines the quirks of language and culture, looking at how Brazilians love to use diminutives.
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The açaí seller who got a record deal

The açaí seller who got a record deal

bbc.com — Story for BBC Travel looking at how açaí changed a woman's life in Rio de Janeiro and the history of the Amazonian berry.
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'School doesn't acknowledge how difficult it is to talk your friend out of suicide one night and ...

'School doesn't acknowledge how difficult it is to talk your friend out of suicide one night and ...

News.com.au — TILLIE Osgood knows the pressure on high school students all too well. More than once she has spent the night talking her friends out of suicide. The next morning she's walked into class and handed in homework, like nothing else is going on.
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Why You Should Travel Solo | Venture Far

Why You Should Travel Solo | Venture Far

venturefar.com.au — There is one way to truly connect to yourself and the world around you again, and that is by travelling alone. It's an experience so contrary to our everyday connectedness that the feeling of satisfaction and enlightenment that comes with it is hard to match.
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Building bridges in Rio's favelas

Building bridges in Rio's favelas

Overture Global — In some of Rio's favelas like Rocinha locals are creating their own businesses to break free of poverty thanks to classes, competitions and incubators created by a coalition of citizens and expats including Australian woman Amber Johnston.
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Be prepared to kiss a few strangers if you're going to Carnival

Be prepared to kiss a few strangers if you're going to Carnival

News.com.au — IT'S a swirling mass of humanity on streets throughout Rio. And it lasts for days. Welcome to the biggest party in the world. Carnival hits your senses like no other event you've ever experienced. Drums beating, tambourines shaking, trumpets, saxophones and trombones blaring, couples kissing, scorching sun above, stilt-walkers and women in tight jaguar outfits dancing with their pretend claws out like wild Amazonian beasts.
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It's the city that never stops dancing

It's the city that never stops dancing

News.com.au — I'M living in a city where the gangs are so out of control the army has been called in to keep the peace. Like many predicted before last year's Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro's hopes for a new beginning were snuffed out along with the cauldron.
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What's your future?

What's your future?

Crinkling News — Front page story looking at the jobs of the future and how children can best prepare themselves for them today.
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Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue is becoming dangerous

Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue is becoming dangerous

News.com.au — DOES Brazil's Christ shed a tear looking down over the sadness below him? It's a question Rio de Janeiro's residents ask as they gaze up to what has become the most dangerous wonder of the world.
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Finding safety in Brazil's favela schools

Finding safety in Brazil's favela schools

Crinkling News — Going to school for children in Rio's poorest areas can be deadly due to the out-of-control gang violence outside the school walls penetrating their safe space of learning, literally, with bullets killing students in class. Amidst this a charity trying to help favela children stay focussed and change their lives.
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A 'two-time killer' before the age of 18

A 'two-time killer' before the age of 18

The Daily Telegraph (Australia) — THIS is the story of Mustapha Dib, a boy from Sydney's worst street who killed twice before he turned 18, claiming the lives of schoolboy Edward Lee and Anita Vrzina. The Daily Telegraph's Ian Walker delved into the Dib murders and how a city was rocked to its core.
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Why did this taxi driver commit mass murder?

Why did this taxi driver commit mass murder?

The Daily Telegraph (Australia) — IT'S Saturday, August 17, 1991 and a sunny afternoon in Strathfield.. The regular Sydney suburb is brimming with visitors just arrived off the country trains, shoppers and local schoolchildren enjoying their weekend. The popular Coffee Pot cafe in the plaza is doing a roaring trade.
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