CENARIUM celebrates five years with the expansion of Amazonian journalism
15 de April de 2025
By Ana Pastana – From Cenarium
MANAUS (AM) – CENARIUM celebrates five years of history on this 15th of April and celebrates the expansion of its content reach with the commitment to produce technical journalism and provide the public with information about what is happening in the Legal Amazon, with indigenous peoples, on diversity, local, national, and international politics, economy, environment, and the visibility of territories.
CENARIUM is present online through social media, the website: revistacenarium.com.br, and the agency: agenciacenarium.com.br, in both Portuguese and English versions, the printed magazine, the Web TV, and the YouTube channel — platforms where more than 30 collaborators work daily across Brazil and the world. Among the professionals, CENARIUM has lawyers, journalists, social media experts, text editors, video editors, cameramen, photojournalists, and a marketing team.
Headquartered in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas, CENARIUM, in five years, has established a network of communicators in Pará, Acre, Roraima, Rondônia, Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, the Federal District, and expanded its reach to the capital of the United Kingdom, London.
In addition to its online presence, the printed version of CENARIUM MAGAZINE is now in its 57th edition, with a circulation of approximately 5,000 copies distributed to subscribers and partners across Brazil every 30 days, offering exclusive content with original texts and images, produced by the company’s team of journalists and communicators.
TV CENARIUM, part of the CENARIUM NETWORK, is available on YouTube and stands out for its continuous production of exclusive reports, interviews, mini-documentaries, and documentaries. Between 2020 and 2025, the platform maintains an average of 18 hours of content published.
On social media, CENARIUM reached over 11 million people on Facebook between 2020 and 2025. On Instagram, in three years, the reach was 13 million. On X (formerly Twitter), between 2024 and 2025, it recorded a reach of over 2 million. On TikTok, between 2023 and 2025, the reach was over 4 million.
Awards
Through responsible journalism, CENARIUM NETWORK has earned several awards, such as:
- 3rd MOL Journalism Award for Solidarity, in the Photojournalism category, for the report “Artesãs Baniwa: hands that weave ancestral tradition as a source of income”.
- 11th Anamatra Human Rights Award 2024, with a series of reports on complaints related to analogous slavery in charcoal production in Roraima State.
- 1st place in the Ampla Journalism Award, in the state category, promoted by Ampla, a non-partisan organisation representing Amazonian leaders, with the report “Narcogarimpo: understand how factions commit environmental crimes in mining areas in Pará”, written by the reporter from Pará, Fabyo Cruz.
- 9th Sebrae Journalism Award, in the Photo category, with the image “Manejar é Preciso” by photojournalist Ricardo Oliveira.
- 3rd place in the “Video Journalism” category at the 11th edition of the state Sebrae Journalism Award, with the report “Ancestral Entrepreneurship Boosts Income of Indigenous Women in Manaus”.
- Winner in the “Photojournalism” category, in the Supreme Labour Court (TST) category, of the 1st National Journalism Award of the Judiciary, with the production “Hostages of Charcoal: exploitation of workers in charcoal production in the Amazon”.
- 2nd Águas de Manaus Environmental Journalism Award, with photojournalist Ricardo Oliveira, for the photo report “Challenge between preservation and economic development on the Tarumã-Açu River in Manaus”.
Partnerships
- Sommos Amazônia
On a platform that distributes content about the Amazon and provides access to regional cultural production — such as films, music, books, visual arts, food, and news — is Sommos Amazônia, launched in the first week of April, dedicated to the diffusion of information and knowledge about the region. Among the partners of this initiative is CENARIUM.
The services will be available in a single app, with a subscription fee of R$ 9.90 per month. The initial catalogue includes 300 films, 30,000 songs, 2,500 books, and over 750 works of art, as well as a glossary of foods and ingredients, with 330 entries. The platform will also feature an e-commerce section for physical products.
- Gracco Viagens e Turismo
Another partnership established is with Gracco Viagens e Turismo, aimed at producing online content about tourism in the Amazon region, initially in the capitals Manaus (AM) and Belém (PA), through a bi-weekly podcast, to be released in the second half of this year, fulfilling the purpose of establishing connections with Brazil and the world.
Cenarium Present
In addition to collaborators in the capital of Amazonas, CENARIUM has professionals in the states of Pará, with journalist Fabyo Cruz; in Brasília, with journalist Ana Claudia Leocádio; and in London, with journalist Monica Piccinini.
For the editorial coordinator, Adrisa de Góes, being part of CENARIUM is a daily learning experience. “Every day we learn something new, this is the advantage of having direct contact with experts, of doing work based on the words of people who experience and fight for a cause, or a specialty. This is CENARIUM’s differential,” she said.
CENARIUM’s General Director, Paula Litaiff, states that the magazine was created with the purpose of leaving a legacy about the importance of ethics, respect for the forest, and professionalism in the practice of journalism. She reaffirms the commitment to producing technical journalism, with thorough investigation. “I often say that it [CENARIUM] is ours. It belongs to those who make the Amazon, to those who collaborate with journalists every day, to the teachers, to the quilombola peoples, to the indigenous peoples. That’s the goal, to amplify the voice of those who need to be heard,” she declared.
CENARIUM
CENARIUM is a media outlet available in online versions, digital magazine, printed magazine, news agency, and Web TV, with the aim of reporting information from the nine states of the Amazon region.
The journalistic coverage priorities are the states of Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Maranhão (southwest), Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, and Tocantins, through the publication of exclusive, special, and factual content, daily.
Headquartered in Manaus (AM), CENARIUM has representatives in the states of Pará, Roraima, and Rondônia, as well as a branch in Brasília (DF), with over 30 collaborators and an Editorial Board composed of experts in Human Rights, Traditional Peoples, Research, Social Sciences, Politics, and Economics.