In a memo to staff on Monday, Climate and Environment News Director Peter Prengaman announced that Gabriela Sá Pessoa, who has covered a wide range of stories for AP since early 2024, is joining AP’s climate team as an Amazon correspondent:
In her time with AP, Gabi has covered everything from the devastating floods in southern Brazil to the jailing of former President Jair Bolsonaro. She has also covered changes in environmental regulations that impact the Amazon, fluctuations in coffee prices amid U.S. tariffs and police violence in Rio de Janeiro.
Before starting with AP, Gabi spent more than a decade working for various Brazilian news publications, including some of the country’s best.
She began as a fellow with the investigative non-profit Agência Pública de Jornalismo Investigativo, and moved to full-time reporting for daily Folha de S. Paulo and news portal UOL. Between 2021 and 2023, Gabi worked for The Washington Post, contributing research and reporting to a major series, “Amazon, Undone,” which won a Polk Award.
In 2023, she was named an Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow by the International Women’s Media Foundation, an honor that took her to the U.S. for six months to do reporting stints for The New York Times and the Boston Globe.
With Gabi’s arrival, combined with the terrific work being done by Amazon correspondent Steven Grattan in Colombia and other AP staffers across South America, AP will be able to offer readers some of the most distinct coverage from one of the world’s most important (and under covered) areas.
Gabi will be based in São Paulo and periodically travel to the Amazon.
Please join me in welcoming Gabi to the climate team.
Peter
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