The series “Two Worlds”, by Sheetpublished on the Café da Manhã podcast, won the Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira Competition for Communication in Defense of the Environment and the Law of Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Communities.
The announcement was made at a ceremony in the Itamaraty auditorium, in Brasília, on Thursday night (11). The award was promoted by the Social Communication Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, as part of a tribute and reparation plan following the murder of indigenous man Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips.
The two were killed in an ambush on the edges of the Vale do Javari Indigenous Land, on June 5, 2022. Those accused of committing the double homicide, who are going to a popular jury, were connected to an illegal fishing scheme in the region, which is on the border of Brazil, Colombia and Peru, in the Amazon.
Oh podcast yes Sheetbroadcast in four episodes from May 31 to June 21, 2025, came first in the audiovisual reporting category, which received 176 submissions of journalistic works.
The podcast was broadcast on the Café da Manhã feed on Spotify and on the newspaper’s website. The series had reporting, script and presentation by Vinicius Sassine, special reporter for the newspaper and correspondent for almost four years, until January 2026; Raphael Concli did the sound editing; and the series was coordinated by Daniel E. de Castro, Gustavo Simon and Magê Flores.
In the text report category, the work “Expedition to Mamoriá Grande: indigenous people decipher signs in the forest to protect isolated groups in the Amazon”, published on Sheet on January 3, 2026, it came in third place. The work is authored by Leão Serva.
The awards ceremony paid tribute to Bruno and Dom’s family members and an apology from the Brazilian government for what happened. Bruno was a Funai employee, and had to leave his role at the federal agency due to persecution under the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government – the crime occurred in the last year of the former president’s administration. Dom accompanied the indigenous man for reporting work.
“Dois Mundos” investigated the circumstances surrounding the death of Tadeo Kulina, who disappeared from a public maternity hospital in Manaus and was found dead more than a week later, at the IML (Instituto Médico-Legal). He and his wife, from a village in the region of the middle Juruá river, went to the Amazonian capital because Ccorima Kulina was in the final stages of a pregnancy with complications and was at risk of death; She and the baby were fine.
The series revealed Tadeo in Manaus, after he disappeared from the maternity ward where his daughter gave birth.
The investigation also revealed flaws in the investigation by the Amazonas Civil Police — which pointed out, in conclusion, accidental death and asked for the investigation to be closed. The series motivated. The Public Ministry ordered the unarchiving and gave the Amazonas Civil Police a deadline to carry out a new investigation.
“Dois Mundos” also won the 47th Amnesty and Human Rights Journalistic Award, in the audio journalistic production category; the 42nd Human Rights Journalism Award, in the audio category; and received an honorable mention at the 6th IREE Journalism Award.
In the Bruno and Dom Competition, the work “Kinja – Gente de Verdade”, by Rede Amazônica, came in second place. The other three finalist works were the series “Força das Raízes”, from GloboNews, the documentary “As dancers of São Gonçalo” and “Suraras” from Amazônia”.
Access the four episodes of the series ‘Dois Mundos’
