Journalists protest elimination of degree requirement in Brazil

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Journalism students, professionals and union members protested Monday in several parts of Brazil against the Supreme Court‘s ruling to eliminate the degree requirement for journalists, reports the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas blog.

Demonstrations occurred in the cities of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Aracaju, Caxias do Sul, Brasília and Teresina, among others, according to the report. (See a map of the protest sites.)

In Rio, the demonstrators, dressed in black and wearing clown noses, marched to the headquarters of the Brazilian Press Association, O Globo reported.

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