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The Real News Network launches English-language Brazilian reporting project ahead of pivotal election
Panamerican Dispatch is a new journalism project created in September 2026 to produce and distribute news and analysis from Latin America, within the United States.
Brazilians are heading to the polls. The stakes for the region could not be higher.
U.S. President Donald Trump has renewed attention on Latin America as not seen in decades. There are major concerns for the future of democracy across Latin America and the legitimacy of upcoming elections in the region.
That is why Panamerican Dispatch is needed today.
“Panamerican Dispatch is an essential site to learn about Latin American events from perspectives that go beyond the talking heads of mainstream media venues,” said Rafael Ioris, a Brazilian Latin American history professor at the University of Denver. “This is even more valuable in today’s changing and concerning landscape of the Western hemisphere.”
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The Signal Awards Judging Academy has awarded Gold to two of our premiere podcasts, The Marc Steiner Show and Stories of Resistance.
Our brilliant colleague and Baltimore radio legend Marc Steiner won Gold for Best Host of an Individual Episode for this masterful, powerful, perspective-changing interview he conducted with three Canadian doctors returning from a medical mission in Gaza.
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Latin-America-based journalist and longtime TRNN contributor and collaborator Michael Fox is also won Gold in the History Podcast category for his truly unique, rich, and inspirational weekly series Stories of Resistance.
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The Signal Award Judging Academy is a large, esteemed body made up of media professionals, scholars, and practitioners across the industry. To get this recognition from our peers is humbling and motivating validation of the importance and quality of the work we do, and of the impact our unique brand of grassroots storytelling has on those who hear it.
Lastly, if you’re not already a regular listener to our unique slate of podcasts, be sure to subscribe to The Marc Steiner Show, Stories of Resistance, and The Real News Network feeds wherever you listen to your podcasts.
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We know things are extremely dark and heavy right now, but we wanted to share a little light with you—and to ask for your help. We were officially notified this morning that two of our premiere podcasts, The Marc Steiner Show
and Stories of Resistance
, are finalists for the prestigious Signal Awards!
The Signal Award Judging Academy is a large, esteemed body made up of media professionals, scholars, and practitioners across the industry. To get this recognition from our peers is humbling and motivating validation of the importance and quality of the work we do, and of the impact our unique brand of grassroots storytelling has on those who hear it. It is also a reminder that, with your help and support, our scrappy team of former prisoners, organizers, and low-wage workers turned journalists can go toe-to-toe with the best and biggest media organizations out there. (Move over, Jon Stewart. The Real News is here…)
But we don’t just want to be nominated—we want to win this thing! We need you to go to the Signal Award voting portals and vote for Marc and Mike to win in their respective categories! With your help, we can make that happen—please take a minute to register and vote for Marc and Mike!
How to vote for Marc:Click on this link
to see the finalists for Best Host of an Individual Episode, then click on The Marc Steiner Show logo. You will be asked to register with an email and password (this is to ensure spam voting does not occur). Once you register, your vote will be logged!
How to vote for Stories of Resistance:Click on this link
to see the finalists for Best Show – History, then click on the Stories of Resistance logo. You will be asked to register with an email and password (this is to ensure spam voting does not occur). Once you register, your vote will be logged!
And lastly, if you’re not already a regular listener to our unique slate of podcasts, be sure to subscribe to The Marc Steiner Show
, Stories of Resistance
, and The Real News Network
feeds wherever you listen to your podcasts. Take a moment to leave positive reviews of our shows on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, send us your feedback, and recommend our shows to your friends, family members, and coworkers. We will continue to put in the painstaking work of finding the stories and lifting up the essential voices from the front lines of struggle across the US and around the world,but we need your help to amplify these stories!
Solidarity,
Maximillian Alavarez Editor-in-Chief The Real News Network
