Guillermo Draper

Journalism

Guillermo Draper is the editor-in-chief of Búsqueda, where he has worked since 2005. He is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, with which he collaborated on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers investigation. He received an honorable mention at the Latin American Congress of Investigative Journalism. He won the National Press Award in 2017 and received special mentions at that competition in 2021 and 2022. He is an author and teaches journalism at the Catholic University.

Open Calls

Public call for journalistic reports based on biodiversity data
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It had the scientific collaboration of Sandro Pauli, a student of The Training Program in Quantitative Ecology.

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Projects

“Não cuidar da Amazônia poderia ter consequências drásticas” nas chuvas no Uruguai
Science outreach / Journalism

This report shows how “flying rivers”—which draw moisture from the Amazon River basin and the Amazon rainforests—play a vital role in Uruguay’s water cycle.

It had the scientific collaboration of Sandro Pauli, a student of The Training Program in Quantitative Ecology.

Read the full article.