Reporting by Andr Tal for Record TV, International Journalism Emmy finalist

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08/16/2022 21:34

The TV recording Tuesday (16) received a nomination for the International Emmy Award for Journalism, one of the most important awards in this category. The announcer is the only Brazilian winner in the current affairs category, competing with the topic that Andr TalA special reporter for the network revealed his battle with Parkinson’s disease and his search for treatment.

Production premiered in December 2021 at Wonderful Sunday. The Record TV report competes with works from Nigeria (BBC Africa), the United Kingdom (Hardcash Productions/The Economist/ITV) and Germany (NDR-Fernsehen). Winners will be announced on September 28 in New York.

Andrei Tal, special correspondent for Record TV, has a career spanning more than two decades in journalism, and has been the station’s international correspondent for eight years in New York, Tokyo and London.

In the report, he announced the diagnosis he had been hiding for four years and outlined his search for a cure, a journey that led him to Dr. Mark Abreu, a Brazilian doctor at Yale University in the US, is developing an experimental treatment that could transform the lives of patients with some types of degenerative diseases.

Working as a reporter and patient at the same time, he demonstrated a progressive treatment that promises to provide an increased quality of life for patients with Alzheimer’s disease, sclerosis, or Parkinson’s disease.

After the report aired, Tal became a reference for many patients. “Many people with Parkinson’s disease wrote to me, people felt represented, and saw their story in me. It was, in a way, a break in silence for many‘, says the reporter.

Now, he celebrates the institutional recognition of this work and what it represents in his personal journey. “I received the news today with great joy. Just being nominated as a finalist in an award like this is truly a victory. We’re always on TV telling other people’s stories and being able to show the other side, telling my own story, is very good. And it was important that Record gave me this space so that I could talk about something that had been bothering me for many years.“.

The journalist, who will turn forty-four in a few days, also emphasizes that “More than acknowledging my work, which makes me happy to show that despite a diagnosis like this, I still do great things, to the point of being nominated for an award finalist like an Emmy. Even with Parkinson’s disease, Record TV and I are vying for the award with the greats of world press. The diagnosis wasn’t a sign that it was all over“.

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