List Of Brazilian Journalists

This is a list of Brazilian journalists, those born in

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and who have established citizenship or residency. {{Dynamic list * Ana Maria Bahiana * Ana Maria Braga *

Ana Maria Machado Ana Maria Machado (born 24 December 1941) is a Brazilian writer of children's books, one of the most significant alongside Lygia Bojunga Nunes and Ruth Rocha. She received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2000 for her "lasting ...

* Ana Paula Araújo * Ana Paula Padrão *

Andrei Netto Andrei Netto (Ijuí, 1977) is a Brazilian journalist and author. He worked at '' Gazeta Mercantil'' and ''Zero Hora''. He is currently a correspondent to ''O Estado de S. Paulo'' in Paris, France. He graduated in Communication at Pontifícia Unive ...

Adalgisa Nery Adalgisa Nery (October 29, 1905 – June 7, 1980) was a Brazilian poet, journalist and politician. Biography She was born in Rio de Janeiro as Adalgisa Maria Feliciana Noel Cancela Ferreira, the daughter of a civil servant. In 1922 she mar ...

* Adísia Sá *

Alberto Dines Alberto Dines (February 19, 1932 – May 22, 2018) was a Brazilian journalist and writer. Biography With a career spanning over five decades, Dines directed and launched several magazines and newspapers in Brazil and Portugal. He has taught jo ...

Alceu Amoroso Lima Alceu Amoroso Lima (Petrópolis, December 11, 1893 – Rio de Janeiro, August 14, 1983) was a writer, journalist, activist from Brazil, and founder of the Brazilian Christian Democracy. He adopted the pseudonym ''Tristão de Ataíde'' in 1919. In ...

* Artur da Távola *

Assis Chateaubriand Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo (pronounced ), also nicknamed Chatô (October 4, 1892 – April 4, 1968), was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, politician and diplomat. He was founder and director of the then main press chain o ...

* Austregésilo de Athayde *

Bernardo Carvalho Bernardo Carvalho (born 1960 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian author and journalist. He was the editor of “ Folhetim,” a collection of essays, and is a Paris and New York correspondent for Folha de S.Paulo. His first two novels were edited in ...

Boris Casoy Boris Casoy (born February 13, 1941 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian journalist, the son of Russian Jewish immigrant parents. He has spent most of his professional life in TV journalism and is currently a Brazilian TV news anchorman. Casoy's journ ...

Carlos Lacerda Carlos Frederico Werneck de Lacerda (30 April 1914 – 21 May 1977) was a Brazilian journalist and politician. Biography Born in Rio de Janeiro, Lacerda was the son of a family of politicians from Vassouras, Rio de Janeiro state. He was the ...

* Carlos Nascimento *

Cid Moreira Cid Moreira (born 29 September 1927) is a Brazilian journalist and TV anchor, active since 1947. He was born in Taubaté, São Paulo state, São Paulo, and is most recognized for his work as the main news anchor, anchor on Rede Globo's primetime ...

Cláudio Abramo Cláudio Abramo (April 6, 1923 in São Paulo – August 14, 1987 in São Paulo) was a Brazilian journalist and author. Born to Vincenzo Abramo and Iole Scarmagnan (daughter of Italian anarchist Bortolo Scarmagnan), his siblings are Athos Abra ...

Clóvis Beviláqua Clóvis Beviláqua (4 October 1859 – 26 July 1944) was a Brazilian jurist, historian and journalist born in Viçosa do Ceará, Ceará, in 1859. Beviláqua was professor of civil and comparative law in Recife. As the author of the Brazilian Civi ...

Carlos Heitor Cony Carlos Heitor Cony (March 14, 1926 – January 5, 2018) was a Brazilian journalist and writer. He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (Portuguese: Academia Brasileira de Letras). Cony viewed himself as center-leftist and faced perse ...

Ciro Pessoa Ciro Pessoa Mendes Corrêa (12 June 1957 – 5 May 2020), also known by his Dharma name Tenzin Chöpel, was a Brazilian singer-songwriter, lyricist, guitarist, screenwriter, journalist and poet, famous for being one of the founding members of th ...

Cornélio Pires Cornélio Pires (July 13, 1884 in Tietê – February 17, 1958 in São Paulo) was a journalist, writer, and Brazilian folklorist. Cornélio Pires was the most important studious of the country man, he understood him, and was the first to launch, ...

Claudio Tognolli Claudio Júlio Tognolli (born 1963) is a Brazilian journalist, musician and writer. He is a professor of journalism at the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo ('' Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de ...

Chico Pinheiro Francisco de Assis Pinheiro, known professionally as Chico Pinheiro (born 17 June 1953, in Santa Maria), is a Brazilian newscaster and journalist. He is the current editor-in-chief and anchorman of Bom Dia Brasil, the Brazilian news program, ai ...

* Cristiana Lôbo *

Coelho Neto Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto (February 21, 1864 – November 28, 1934) was a Brazilian writer and politician. He founded and occupied the second chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, from 1897 until his death in 1934. He was also the pre ...

Dulce Damasceno de Brito Dulce Damasceno de Brito (1926 – 9 November 2008) was a Brazilian journalist specializing in the cinema and, in the 1950s and 1960s, was the first Brazilian woman to be a Hollywood correspondent. She became known for her friendship with the Bra ...

Edgard Leuenroth Edgard Leuenroth (October 31, 1881 – September 28, 1968) was a Brazilian journalist, publisher and writer, who became famous for his documentation of the country's earliest social movements, particularly the communist, socialist and anarchist ...

* Edinaldo Filgueira *

Elio Gaspari Elio Gaspari (born 1944 in Naples, Italy) is a Brazilian journalist and writer resident in São Paulo, Brazil. He came to Brazil while still an infant, and began his career in journalism not long thereafter. He is well known for his political op ...

* Elsie Lessa * Eric Filardi * Ethevaldo Mello de Siqueira *

Fátima Bernardes Fátima Gomes Bernardes (born 17 September 1962) is a Brazilian journalist and TV host. She joined Rede Globo in 1987 as the host of RJTV, the regional news from Rio de Janeiro and became widely known in 1989 when she hosted ''Jornal da Globo'', ...

Fausto Silva Fausto Corrêa da Silva (born May 3, 1950) commonly known as Faustão (literally Big Fausto), is a Brazilian television presenter. He is best known as the host of long-running Sunday afternoon show ''Domingão do Faustão ''Domingão do Faus ...

* Francisco de Sales Torres Homem *

Franklin Távora João Franklin da Silveira Távora (January 13, 1842 – August 18, 1888) was a Brazilian novelist, journalist, politician, lawyer and dramatist, famous for his Regionalist romance '' O Cabeleira'', set in 18th-century Pernambuco. He wrote under t ...

Gilberto Dimenstein Gilberto Dimenstein (August 28, 1956 – May 29, 2020) was a Brazilian journalist. He was the publisher of Catraca Livre, appointed by Financial Times as one of the most inspiring applications of digital technology for social good. He also kept ...

* Glória Maria *

Gustavo Barroso Gustavo Adolfo Luiz Dodt da Cunha Barroso (December 29, 1888 – December 3, 1959) was a Brazilian lawyer, writer and politician associated with Brazilian Integralism and antisemitism. He was also known by the pseudonym João do Norte. Being con ...

Heraldo Pereira ''Jornal Nacional'' (; ) is the flagship television newscast of TV Globo. First airing on September 1, 1969, according to IBOPE (Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics), in the week of September 28October 4, 2015, it was the second ...

João do Rio João do Rio was the pseudonym of the Brazilian journalist, short-story writer and playwright João Paulo Emílio Cristóvão dos Santos Coelho Barreto, a Brazilian author and journalist of African descent (August 5, 1881, Rio de Janeiro – Ju ...

* José-Itamar de Freitas * Josimar Melo * Joyce Cavalccante *

Leandro Narloch Leandro Narloch (1978 in Curitiba, Paraná) is a Brazilian journalist and writer. He worked as a reporter at ''Veja'' magazine and as an editor at ''Aventuras na História'' and ''Superinteressante'' magazines, all published by Grupo Abril. He ...

Leilane Neubarth Leilane Neubarth Teixeira (born in Rio de Janeiro, November 15, 1958) is a Brazilian journalist, news presenter and writer. Biography Neubarth was born in Rio de Janeiro, daughter of an Ad Executive father and a speech therapist mother. Her pa ...

* Leonardo Gagliano * Lourival Fontes * Lucius de Mello * Luís Cristóvão dos Santos * Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre * Márcia Mendes *

Mário Filho Mário Rodrigues Filho, better known as Mário Filho (Recife, June 3, 1908 – Rio de Janeiro, September 17, 1966) was a Brazilian journalist and writer. Born in the capital of Pernambuco state, Mário Filho moved to Rio while still a child, in ...

Maria Júlia Coutinho Maria Júlia Coutinho (born August 10, 1978), commonly known as Maju Coutinho, is a Brazilian journalist, television presenter, and commentator. Biography Maria Júlia holds a degree in Journalism from Faculdade Cásper Líbero and was a train ...

Mino Carta Demetrio "Mino" Carta (Genoa, 6 September 1933) is an Italian-born Brazilian journalist, publisher and writer. Carta helped in the creation of ''Veja'', ''Istoé'' and ''CartaCapital'', three of the four leading newsmagazines currently published ...

Monalisa Perrone Monalisa Gomes Perrone (born 12 November 1969) is a Brazilian journalist. She is a former reporter and presenter for TV Globo, and is an anchor for a TV news program in primetime in the pay television broadcaster CNN Brazil. Biography Monalisa ...

Monteiro Lobato José Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato (18 April 1882 – 4 July 1948) was one of Brazil's most influential writers, mostly for his children's books set in the fictional Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (Yellow Woodpecker Farm) but he had been previously ...

Narciso Vernizzi Narciso Vernizzi (October 21, 1918 in Brazil – July 11, 2005 in São Roque, São Paulo, Brazil) was a Brazilian sports journalist and a radio broadcaster. He worked for 56 years on Rádio Jovem Pan in São Paulo, he became a sports journalist in ...

Nélson Rodrigues Nelson Falcão Rodrigues (August 23, 1912 – December 21, 1980) was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play ''Vestido de Noiva (The Wedding Dress)'', considered ...

Palmério Dória Palmério Dória (born 1948, in Santarém) is a Brazilian journalist and writer, ex-director of ''Sexy'' magazine and author of a number of books. Dória was born in Santarém and raised in Belém by a priest. He moved to the South of Brazil an ...

Patrícia Poeta Patrícia Poeta Pfingstag (born 19 October 1976 in São Jerônimo) is a Brazilian newscaster and journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy ...

Paulo Francis Paulo Francis (Rio de Janeiro, September 2, 1930 – New York City, February 4, 1997) was a Brazilian journalist, political pundit, novelist and critic. Francis became prominent in modern Brazilian journalism through his controversial critiqu ...

Paulo Henrique Amorim Paulo Henrique dos Santos Amorim (22 February 1942 – 10 July 2019) was a Brazilian blogger and journalist. Biography Amorim worked as a sociologist and political scientist for many of the larger networks of the Brazilian mass media, such as ...

* Paulo Marques *

Perseu Abramo Perseu Abramo (July 17, 1929 in São Paulo – March 6, 1996) was a Brazilian journalist and writer. Apart from working in many Brazilian vehicles, he also had an intense political life and taught in many higher education institutions. He is on ...

Poliana Abritta Poliana Abritta Martins Ferreira (September 18, 1975) is a Brazilian journalist. She is a reporter and presenter for TV Globo. Between 2012 and 2013, she became a presenter on the Globo Mar chain. In 2014, she moved to New York to take on the r ...

Rachel de Queiroz Rachel de Queiroz (, November 17, 1910 – November 4, 2003) was a Brazilian author, translator and journalist. Biography Rachel de Queiroz was born on 17 November 1910 in Fortaleza, capital of the northeastern state of Ceará. During her ...

Rachel Sheherazade Rachel Sheherazade Barbosa (born 5 September 1973) is a Brazilian journalist. Education Rachel Sheherazade has a degree in journalism from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil. Career Rachel Sheherazade began her career in televi ...

Reinaldo Azevedo José Reinaldo Azevedo e Silva (Dois Córregos, August 19, 1961) is a Brazilian journalist. Currently, Reinaldo is a columnist in Folha de S.Paulo newspaper and acts as a commentator on RedeTV! News, of RedeTV! channel, in addition to presenting ...

Renata Vasconcellos Renata Fernandes Vasconcellos (born June 10, 1972) is a Brazilian newscaster and journalist. TV news * Bom Dia Brasil (2003 – 2013); * Fantástico (2013 – 2014); * Jornal Nacional (Since 2014). Occasional presenter * Jornal Nacional (2005-2 ...

Ricardo Boechat Ricardo Eugênio Boechat (July 13, 1952 – February 11, 2019) was a Brazilian news anchor. He worked for newspapers such as ''O Globo'', ''O Dia'', ''O Estado de São Paulo'' and '' Jornal do Brasil''. Before his death, he was active as a news ...

* Ricardo Kotscho * Rubem Braga * Samuel Wainer *

Sandra Annenberg Sandra Annenberg (born 5 June 1968, in São Paulo) is a Brazilian newscaster. Since 1982, Sandra has worked for Globo TV, the largest commercial TV network in Brazil, with over 150 million Portuguese speaking viewers in more than 130 countries. ...

* Sebastião Nery *

Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (July 11, 1902 – April 24, 1982) was a Brazilian historian, writer, journalist and Sociology, sociologist. His greatest achievement was Raízes do Brasil, a landmark of Brazilian sociology, in which he developed the ...

* Sérgio de Souza * Sud Mennucci * Tariq Saleh * Tim Lopes *

Vladimir Herzog Vladimir Herzog (27 June 1937 – 25 October 1975), nicknamed Vlado (a usual Croatian abbreviation for the name Vladimir) by his family and friends,Freitas, Daelcio"Jornalista morto pelo regime militar: Vladimir Herzog" UOL Educação was a Brazil ...

* William Bonner *

Zileide Silva ''Jornal Hoje'' is a news program aired by the Brazilian television broadcaster TV Globo. The program is broadcast in the early afternoon from Monday to Saturday as part of a news block that also includes ''Praça TV'' and ''Globo Esporte''. It is ...

Zuenir Ventura Zuenir Carlos Ventura (born June 1, 1931, in Além Paraíba, Minas Gerais) is a Brazilian journalist and writer. He is a columnist for the newspaper ''O Globo'', and for '' Época'' magazine. He won the Jabuti Prize in 1995 in the "reportage" cat ...

Journalists A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

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