Rate My Professor Rosental Alves

At UT Austin, Alves teaches and researches international reporting with emphasis on foreign correspondents in Latin America, Latin American journalism and press freedom, digital journalism, online journalism, and entrepreneurial journalism. His influential publications include the book Jornalismo digital: Dez anos de web… e a revolução continua (2006); the article 'From product to service: The diffusion of dynamic content in online newspapers' (2007, with M. Tremayne and A.S. Weiss); 'The role of the press in Latin America’s democratization' (2005); 'Sharing the stage: Analysis of social media adoption by Latin American journalists' (2017, with M. Saldaña, V.M. Higgins Joyce, and A. Schmitz Weiss); and Reinventando o jornal na Internet (2001). Alves chairs the board of the Maria Moors Cabot Awards at Columbia University and serves on boards including the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. He is a former president of Orbicom, the global network of UNESCO Chairs in Communication. Through the Knight Center, he has significantly impacted global journalism training and innovation.