Record the TV report in which Andre Tal revealed that his battle against Parkinson’s reached the finals of the International Press Emmy Award

The TV recording On Tuesday (08/16) he received a nomination for the International Emmy Award for Journalism, one of the most important awards in this category. The station is the only Brazilian to reach the finals in the current affairs category, in which he competed with the article in which Andre Tal, the station’s special correspondent, revealed his battle against Parkinson’s disease and his search for a cure. The production premiered in December 2021, on Domingo Epetacular.

The Record TV report competes with acts from Nigeria (BBC Africa), the United Kingdom (Hardcash Productions/The Economist/ITV), and Germany (NDR-Fernsehen). Winners will be announced on September 28 in New York.

Andrei Tal, special correspondent for Record TV, has a career spanning more than two decades in journalism, and has been the station’s international correspondent for eight years in New York, Tokyo and London. In the report, he announced the diagnosis he had been hiding for four years and outlined his search for a cure, a journey that led him to Dr. Mark Abreu, a Brazilian doctor at Yale University in the US, is developing an experimental treatment that could transform the lives of patients with some types of degenerative diseases.

Working as a reporter and patient at the same time, he demonstrated a progressive treatment that promises to provide an increased quality of life for patients with Alzheimer’s disease, sclerosis, or Parkinson’s disease.

After the report aired, Tal became a reference for many patients. “Many people with Parkinson’s disease wrote to me, people felt represented, and saw their story in me. In a way, it was, as a result, a period of silence for many,” the reporter says.

Now, he celebrates the institutional recognition of this work and what it represents in his personal path. “I received the news today with great joy. Just being nominated as a finalist in an award like this is truly a victory. We are always on TV telling other people’s stories and being able to show the other side, and tell my own story, is very good. And it was important that Record gave me this space to be able to Talking about something that has been bothering me for many years.”

The journalist, who will turn 44 in a few days, also asserts that “More than recognition of my work, what makes me happy is to show that, despite a diagnosis like this, I’m still doing great things, to the point of being shortlisted for an award like an Emmy.” Even with Parkinson’s disease, Record TV and I are vying for the award with the beasts of the world press. The diagnosis wasn’t a sign that it was all over.”