9 June 2022
To:
President Jair Bolsonaro
Carlos Alberto França, Minister of Foreign Affairs
General Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, Minister of Defence
We write to express our extreme concern regarding the safety and whereabouts of our colleague and friend Dom Phillips, and Bruno Araújo Pereira, with whom Dom was travelling. Dom is a globally respected journalist with a deep love for Brazil and its people.
As you will know from numerous press reports, Dom and Bruno have now been missing in the Amazon for more than three days. Their families, friends and colleagues have repeatedly requested assistance from local, state and national authorities and emergency services.
We are now very concerned by reports from Brazil that search and rescue efforts so far have been minimally resourced, with national authorities slow to offer more than very limited assistance.
We ask that you urgently step up and fully resource the effort to locate Dom and Bruno, and that you provide all possible support to their families and friends.
Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief, Guardian News & Media
On behalf of:
Sally Buzbee, executive editor, the Washington Post
Dean Baquet, executive editor, the New York Times
Sérgio Dávila, editor-in-chief, Folha de S.Paulo
Nancy Barnes, senior vice-president of news and editorial director, NPR
John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief, Bloomberg News
Julie Pace, SVP & executive editor, the Associated Press
Juan Forero, South America bureau chief, Wall Street Journal
Marina Walker Guevara, executive editor, Pulitzer Center
Rozina Breen, editor-in-chief and CEO, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Stephen Engelberg, editor-in-chief, ProPublica
Paul Webster, editor, the Observer
Jason Ukman, managing editor, Stat
Thiago Domenici, director, Agência Pública de Jornalismo Investigativo
Rhett Butler, founder and CEO, Mongabay
Peter Wolodarski, editor-in-chief, Dagens Nyheter
Roger Hodge, deputy editor, the Intercept
Felipe Maciel, executive director, epbr agency
Phil Chetwynd, global news director, AFP
Roula Khalaf, editor, the Financial Times
Emmanuel Colombié, Latin America director, Reporters Without Borders
Lynette Clemetson, director, Wallace House Center for Journalists
Quinn McKew, executive director, Article 19
Jodie Ginsberg, president, Committee to Protect Journalists
Gregory Feifer, executive director, Institute of Current World Affairs
Lindsey Hilsum, international editor, Channel 4 News
Christina Lamb, chief foreign correspondent, Sunday Times
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, presenter Channel 4 News
Jon Lee Anderson, biographer and staff writer, the New Yorker
Leonardo Sakamoto, director, Repórter Brasil
Nelly Luna Amancio, editor-in-chief, OjoPúblico
Katia Brasil, executive director, Amazônia Real
André Petry, editor-in-chief, Revista Piauí
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief, The Atlantic
Danielle Belton, editor-in-chief, HuffPost
