Fernão Lara Mesquita is a Brazilian journalist. He is a director of Grupo Estado, which publishes the daily newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, the largest newspaper in Brazil, which has been in the Mesquita family for many generations. Grupo Estado also publishes Jornal da Tarde, owns a radio network, and owns Agência Estado, Brazil's leading news agency. Mesquita is also the former opinion-page editor of O Estado de S. Paulo.Mesquita has taken a leading role in the struggle for freedom of expression in Brazil. In a talk delivered at the 2011 Oslo Freedom Forum, he drew attention to the long history of government censorship in that country.
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