Renata Cló is a multilingual, multimedia journalist who has reported in English, Portuguese and Spanish from the United States and Brazil. She is currently working as a digital content producer at WTOL 11, a Tegna-owned station in Toledo, Ohio, where she covers a multitude of issues including the elections, immigration, economics, health and politics.
Besides moving to America from Brazil to get her master's in journalism, she has had multiple abroad experiences from an early age and also speaks Italian because of her family heritage.
Her curiosity and inability to sit still is what makes her a great storyteller who got her start in journalism in Minas Gerais, Brazil. While completing her undergraduate degree at PUC Minas, she reported on local issues as well as major ones, such as the national microcephaly outbreak and the fight for decent housing some Brazilians still face.
At graduate school, besides taking a borderlands and a bilingual reporting class which gave Renata the opportunity to report in Spanish and in Puerto Rico, she did her capstone at the Arizona PBS Washington, D.C., bureau and reported on the Arizona Congressional delegation from Capitol Hill on multiple issues.
Renata also developed her passion for investigative journalism while doing News21, a national fellowship program, which allowed her to delve into LGBTQ hate issues and hate groups on the internet.
She graduated from Arizona State University with the fall class of 2018.
Besides moving to America from Brazil to get her master's in journalism, she has had multiple abroad experiences from an early age and also speaks Italian because of her family heritage.
Her curiosity and inability to sit still is what makes her a great storyteller who got her start in journalism in Minas Gerais, Brazil. While completing her undergraduate degree at PUC Minas, she reported on local issues as well as major ones, such as the national microcephaly outbreak and the fight for decent housing some Brazilians still face.
At graduate school, besides taking a borderlands and a bilingual reporting class which gave Renata the opportunity to report in Spanish and in Puerto Rico, she did her capstone at the Arizona PBS Washington, D.C., bureau and reported on the Arizona Congressional delegation from Capitol Hill on multiple issues.
Renata also developed her passion for investigative journalism while doing News21, a national fellowship program, which allowed her to delve into LGBTQ hate issues and hate groups on the internet.
She graduated from Arizona State University with the fall class of 2018.