Renata Cló is a multilingual, multimedia journalist who has reported in English, Portuguese and Spanish from the United States, Puerto Rico and Brazil. 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 and accepted a job as a digital content producer for WTOL, a Tegna-owned station in Toledo, Ohio. 

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​Can renters get evicted during state of emergency?

Originally published on March 25, 2020 at WTOL 11 

​Trump celebrates victory of trade deal energizing workers crowd in Warren

Photo by Renata Cló

Originally published on Jan. 30, 2020 at WTOL 11 

In rural Pennsylvania, family detention a world away from the border

Photo by Renata Cló

Originally published on Dec. 25, 2018 at Cronkite News

TOLEDO, Ohio — Right now, the question at the top of every renter's mind is whether they can get evicted if they can't afford rent while living in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic that led leaders all over the world to order people to stay home. 
While the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced an immediate relief plan last Wednesday for homeowners across the country, suspending all foreclosures and evictions for the following 60 days, efforts to protect renters have been limited to the local level. 

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WARREN, Mich. —President Donald Trump celebrated signing a new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada by touring Dana, an auto supply manufacturing plant in Warren, Mich., Thursday and energizing a crowd of workers.
"I will say we just ended the nightmare known as NAFTA. They took our jobs for a long time. They took it for a long time and now we have a brand new U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement. It's a whole different ball game. It's gonna be great for this plant, it's gonna be incredible for Michigan," Trump said. 

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READING, Pa. — Even though she spent 19 months in detention after crossing the border to seek asylum in the U.S. in 2015, Karen Zelaya still was able to celebrate her son’s sixth and seventh birthdays with him.
They were not the happiest of birthdays.
Zelaya and her son, Steven Albanes, who are from El Salvador, were being held together with dozens of other families at the Berks Family Residential Center in Pennsylvania, one of just three family detention centers in the U.S. and the only one run by a local government.

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