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Fernando Rodrigues, 46, is a Brazilian journalist. He has been with daily newspaper Folha de S.Paulo for the past 23 years. Folha has the largest circulation in the country.

While at Folha, Rodrigues has been Economics Editor (in Sao Paulo) and foreign correspondent in New York, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. He is now (2009) based in Brasília as both a political columnist for the paper’s op-ed page and a features reporter.

In 2000, Rodrigues pioneered political journalism on the internet in Brazil and started a political blog and web site for the news portal UOL. In 2002 he launched “Políticos do Brasil” (Politicians from Brasil), a website/database with information about Brazilian politicians (electoral information, personal data and list of personal assets). In 2006, the site PoliticosdoBrasil presented an updated version with some 25,000 records, encompassing virtually all major Brazilian politicians.

Rodrigues is also a prime time (7:05 a.m.) daily political commentator for Jovem Pan, a leading radio station with a national audience of some 25 million listeners.

Rodrigues has won several journalism awards in Brazil and abroad, including the web journalism prize from Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, headed by Gabriel García Márquez. His latest book, Políticos do Brasil, was awarded the best 2006 journalistic book in Brazil.

In 2002, Rodrigues joined a group of journalists responsible for putting together Abraji, the Brazilian Association for Investigative Journalism. Rodrigues currently (2009) serves as Abraji’s vice-president. One of his duties at Abraji is to coordinate the Brazilian campaign for a Freedom of Information Act.

In 2007/08, Rodrigues spent a year as an International Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He is also a member of ICIJ (The International Consortium of Investigative Journalism).

Rodrigues has an MA in International Journalism from the City University of London.