Neide Duarte, one of Globo’s bestknown reporters, officially said goodbye to her colleagues this Monday (5). Laid off after 42 years, the journalist wrote an open letter to talk about her time at the company. “I don’t mean to be sad or dramatic but I will miss you so much,” she said in the message, which she received firsthand TV news.
Neide, one of the veterans of the Globo newsroom in São Paulo, worked at Globo Rural and was recognized for her reporting. She thanked the chance she had on Sunday morning and thanked each of the names that have helped her in her long career.
In the letter, the professional also thanks bosses like Ali Kamel, the current director of journalism at Globo. She was fired amid an editorial renewal that had fired the likes of Francisco José and Renato Machado over the past year.
Neide Duarte joined Globo in 1980. For 16 years, the reporter worked on several of the channel’s news programs, including Jornal Nacional, Bom Dia Brasil, Jornal Hoje and SP1. He also distinguished himself as a special reporter for Globo Repórter and Fantástico during this period.
She then moved to the SBT, where she briefly worked as a special rapporteur. From 1998 to 2005, the journalist directed and presented the program Caminhos e Parcerias at TV Cultura in São Paulo. Before the project, she became an awardwinning journalist, winning awards such as Líbero Badaró and Vladimir Herzog.
Neide returned to Globo de São Paulo and worked as a special reporter for the channel’s main news programs in 2015. In 2017 she was transferred to Globo Rural, where she has been a fixture ever since.
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“I joined TV Globo in SP in 1980 as a reporter. Now, 42 years later, I’m still a reporter. Being a reporter was always what I wanted to be.
Just like the young bees that, when they first leave the hive, walk backwards and remain aloft for a while until they memorize the design of the house they live in, to be able to return later, I also gradually walked away behind to capture forever this image of joy, excitement and enthusiasm that I saw one day in the TV Globo editorial office in SP.
The newsroom at Praça Marechal Deodoro was one of the best I worked for in the 1980s. It was a concentration of talent, journalists from print newspapers, magazines and other television channels. I learned to write with them. I’ve learned that it’s better to be simple than baroque, unpretentious than solemn.
I’ve learned to make mistakes. I have learned that the essence of a journalist’s work is on the street.
I’ve learned that a reporter doesn’t work to please anyone, bosses or fans. Therefore, never expect recognition.
I’ve learned that a reporter shouldn’t lose perspective in the face of collective euphoria or tragedy. What we take with us forever from these reports is the joy or pain of others. And then we became other people, transformed by these events. It’s a job, but it feels like life. Learning takes time and now after 42 years I feel on the right track, ready to continue learning.
I can’t leave without thanking you first. And I have hundreds of people to thank who I owe everything I’ve learned and I hope I won’t forget. First of all, thanks to all the film reporters I’ve worked with. With them, on the street, the reporter learns to be a reporter and find his place in the team. Many thanks to Hugo de Sá Peixoto, Marco Antonio Gonçalves, Nilson Araújo, Américo Figueiroa, Wilson Araújo, Caue Angelini, Ricardo Vital, Thiago Capelle, Douglas Campos, Jorge dos Santos, Francisco Mafezzoli Jr, Moacir Mendonça, Abiatar Arruda, and Reinaldo Cabrera many more other love…
Thank you Anderson, Dantas, Marcão, Gentil and all audio operators.
Thanks to the technicians who carried the old video tapes, very heavy at the time of the UMatic, Santiago, Camacho, Niltinho Mochila, Claudinei, Luizinho, Francischetti, Reginaldo, Mustafá…
Thank you Hildebrandão de Lima, Bigode, Valdir, Roque, Capacete, Maurício and all the drivers, directors of our adventures in the brave summers.
Thanks João Paulada, solver of all problems in the editorial office.
Thanks to all secretaries, to all telephone operators from the time when corded phones still existed. Thanks to all the women and men in the editorial office who dusted our tables and made our floors shine.
Thank you to the art department staff. Thank you, Bira, Maurinho, Fabiola. Thanks to the investigative team at the old radio station. Thank you Wagner Vallim. Thanks to the staff of the picture archive, old and new, zealous custodians of our history.
Thanks to the producers who germinate and generate the stories before they exist. Thank you Nélio Horta, Cris Angelini, Maurício Maia, Karina Dorigo, Adriana Caban, Mônica Pinheiro, Marcos Aidar, Ana Rita Mendonça, Assimina Vlahou, Elaine Camilo, Johnny Savalla, Dina Amendola, Maria Luíza Silveira, Marrey Jr, among many other wonderful producers .
Thank you to all the photo editors I’ve worked with who have taught me so much. Thank you Cebolinha, Juvenal, Joinha, Ronaldo, Zé Rubens, Toninho Asa, Dorival, Geraldinho, Borrachinha, Lima, Liminha, Orlando, Olímpio. Thanks Josi, from the days of Moviola and 16 mm film.
Thanks to all the text editors who have always surprised me to see in the editorial office what I couldn’t see on the street. Thank you Marquito Moraes, Valdir Zwetch, Teresa Cavalleiro, Silvia Sayão, Luciana Bistane, Leda Pasta, Tonico Duarte, Rosane Baptista, Miloca Nagle, Benê Sousa, Theresa Pinheiro, Marislei Dalmaz, Cláudia Guimarães, Mariana Sabino, Fatima Ugatti, Bia Almeida, Anne Porlan, Ivone Happ, Paulo D’Arezzo, Maria Emilia Celestino, Renata De Luca, Virgínia Queiroz, Cintia Borsato, Wanda Alviano, Lucia Santana, Marilei Zanini, Maria Cleidejane, Teresa Garcia, Denise Sobrinho, Fatima Baptista, Ana Helena Gomes, Roberto Menezes and many others.
Thank you Walter Mesquita, our Waltinho, thank you Laerte Mangini, Fernando Coelho, Elói Gertel, Mari Marega and all the directors and subdirectors of reporting.
Many thanks to Raul Bastos, Armando Nogueira, Alice Maria, Ali Kamel, Carlos Schroeder, Cristina Piasentini, Wianey Pinheiro, Jorge Escosteguy, Woile Guimarães, Celso Kinjô, Mariano Boni, Luizinho Nascimento, Hedil Valle Jr, Miguel Athaíde and all editorsinchief, editorsinchief and journalistic directors.
Thanks to so many great reporters who have inspired me in my time as a reporter: Lucas Mendes, Ernesto Paglia, Marcelo Canellas, Caco Barcellos, Tonico Ferreira, Sonia Bridi, Carlos Dorneles, Pedro Bial, Carlos Nascimento, Helena de Grammont, Nelson Araújo , José Hamilton Ribeiro, Isabela Assumpção, Ilze Scamparini, Graziela Azevedo, Edney Silvestre, Alba Carvalho, Glória Maria, Helen Martins, Maria José Sarno, Maria Cristina Poli, Alberto Gaspar, José Roberto Burnier, Sabina Petrovsky, Beatriz Thielmann, Mônica Waldvogel, Bruna Marin and so many others.
I checked all the journalism programs on TV Globo: Bom Dia SP, Bom Dia Brasil, SPTV 1, Jornal Hoje, SPTV 2, Jornal Nacional, Jornal da Globo, Fantástico, Globo Repórter, in all of them I was happy, desperate, excited, indignant, how often the wrong reporter.
In the last 5 years I ended up at Globo Rural, where living together still reminds me of the editorial office at Praça Marechal in the 1980s: joy, camaraderie, good work.
Thank you Humberto Pereira. Thank you Lucas Battaglin. Many thanks to Maurino, Camila, Vico, Odair, Samuca and all the Globo Rural team. Thank you for letting me make stories that weren’t even as rural, but a bit more like my happy reporter dream.
I don’t want to be sad or dramatic, but I will miss you.”