EBC Seeks BRICS Bank Financing as Basbaum Drives Journalism-First Overhaul
A bid for New Development Bank support signals a push to scale Agência Brasil abroad under tight fiscal rules.
Overview
- EBC is negotiating a credit line with the New Development Bank, the BRICS lender led by Dilma Rousseff, to take Agência Brasil global in up to 15 languages.
- The plan still needs federal approval and a shift in EBC’s Treasury status to an ICT, a scientific and technology institution label that would loosen budget limits.
- To fit fiscal rules, EBC approved a career and pay plan of about R$30 million after dropping an earlier R$100 million design.
- Basbaum defends R$100,000-a-month contracts for José Luiz Datena and Cissa Guimarães as tools to boost TV Brasil’s reach on YouTube and Instagram.
- EBC took a seat at ABERT’s top council for the first time and highlighted joint work on TV 3.0 with Brasília’s public channels.