About Wide Avenues
Wide Avenues is a storytelling and investigations agency focused on English and local language content out of South America. Our focus is on delivering captivating text and multimedia narratives of the highest quality that hit a home run with mass audiences. Our multilingual professionals have experience at the top levels of international media and are closely connected to the complex realities on the ground.
Whether it be producing a documentary in the heart of the Amazon, tracing an intricate supply chain or illustrating how local tech users are interacting with the latest app, our tailored service in English, Portuguese and Spanish has unrivalled quality and efficiency. We partner with media, creative agencies, NGOs and foundations to fulfill storytelling goals, maintaining a boundary between editorially independent projects and commercial work.
our services
FIELDWORK
The core of our work is meeting reality face-to-face and humanizing data that would otherwise be dry and impenetrable.
TRILINGUAL
We provide a seamless high-level output in English, Portuguese and Spanish, always tailored to the right audience.
VIDEO
With many years of experience in video productions in Brazil, we can handle the most ambitious multimedia projects with ease.
PHOTO
Our network of skilled photographers is on hand to capture the complex beauties and realities of the continent.
NARRATIVE
We find narrative solutions that connect the dots and create empathy and understanding between distant people and places.
TEXT
Our deep experience with print publications gives us the tools to craft copy which is both simple and powerful.
INVESTIGATIONS
We dig deep into the intricacies of difficult stories; using advanced tools to reveal complexities that others miss.
FACT-CHECKING
Accuracy is critical and fact-checking is the only way to ensure it. Our multilingual team can verify any material to the highest international standards.
DATA ANALYSIS
Reality is often hidden in data. Our analysts are primed to delve into the most challenging datasets in search of the stories we know are there.
our clients
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NGO The Donkey Sanctuary
Chinese demand for donkey hides has threatened millions of the animals across the world. This investigation into the emerging trade in rural Brazil involved in-depth supply chain research and field documentation into the trafficking and slaughter of the animals.
photo: Alexandre Guzanshe
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AGENCY Cutting Chai Content
In an ongoing multiyear project, we have managed lead generation and field deployments in Brazil for a series of dozens of lively human stories about innovative uses of a popular mobile app by Brazilian consumers and entrepreneurs.
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MEDIA TIME Magazine
A year in the making, our TIME story on the future of the Amazon was published in September 2019, delving deep in the past and present of the world’s largest rainforest. It included breathtaking photography and augmented reality models of the jungle.
photo: SeeBoundless
our team
Our core team is composed of multilingual journalists, multimedia specialists and entrepreneurs who can build a bridge between local networks and the overseas market.
MATT SANDY
Matt is a journalist with 12 years' experience who has reported from 20 countries for publications such as TIME Magazine and The New York Times. He founded Wide Avenues in 2019.
FLÁVIA MILHORANCE
Flávia is a journalist with more than ten years of experience as a reporter and editor for major media companies in Brazil and abroad. Her English-language bylines include the Guardian and TIME. She also holds an MA in Financial Journalism from City University of London (UK) and Aarhus University (Denmark).
JULIANA HORTA
Juliana is a journalist, podcaster and Rio de Janeiro native. A storyteller for ten years, she started her career at Reuters and co-ordinates content projects for Wide Avenues.
BARNEY LANKESTER-OWEN
Barney is an award-winning director and BAFTA-nominated producer with over 15 years of experience making critically acclaimed documentaries for global television networks and content for world-renowned brands.
FERNANDO SONEGHETI DE MINGO
Fernando is an entrepreneur and an innovation consultant who created startups in Brazil and Europe, had mentored more than 30 companies and helped businesses and ideas to grow for the last 15 years.
our ethics
Wide Avenues is a for-profit storytelling and investigations agency. We maintain a strict boundary between our editorially independent work and paid content and practice full transparency about who has paid for it and on what basis. In our editorially independent work, we respect the highest standards in professional journalistic ethics. We believe a wide client base can help us avoid the influence of a single funder. That said, we do not engage in public relations, or seek to place advocacy in the mainstream media.