Miriam Leitão is a journalist specializing in economics, with a long career in some of Brazil's leading media outlets. She is a columnist for the newspaper O Globo, commentator for CBN Radio and TV Globo and host of Globonews. He was a reporter for the newspapers Gazeta Mercantil, O Estado de S.Paulo and Jornal do Brasil and the magazine Veja. She is also the author of fiction books. In 2005, she received the Maria Moors Cabot Award and, in 2007, the ANJ Press Freedom Award.