Rosental Calmon Alves is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Knight Chair in Journalism and the UNESCO Chair in Communication. He is also the founding director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas that has helped to fund and found journalism organizations throughout Latin America in recent years, most of them dedicated to investigative reporting. For a decade, Alves worked as a foreign correspondent for Brazil's daily newspaper, Jornal do Brasil, reporting from Spain, Argentina, Mexico, and the United States. He taught journalism at two Rio de Janeiro universities and in 1987-88 became the first Brazilian to be selected as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. As a correspondent and editor, he has participated in or directed several investigative reporting projects.