Tell stories lived in the exercise of the profession. To delight readers – especially those who love good reporting – with picturesque stories and adventures that are unthinkable to live for those who have never worked as a reporter. That’s what “My Life as a Reporter” is about, by journalist José Maria de Aquino, organized by Nelson Nunes.
Nelson Nunes is a ‘hat-taking’ journalist, who has been working in the press for 40 years, with stints at A Gazeta Esportiva, Folha da Tarde, Jornal da Tarde, SBT, Jovem Pan and magazine/section Propaganda e Marketing, in addition to Diário de S.Paulo, where he worked for 22 years and met the also incredible journalist Claudia Santos. He worked in business communication in the direction of P4 Comunicação, where he was a consultant for several editorial projects in the Jaime Câmara Organizations, restructuring the vehicles O Popular, from Goiânia and Jornal de Tocantins, from Palmas.
The book’s ears – those flaps we love to see when we’re in bookstores – are by the no less well-known Brazilian journalist Milton Neves.
And without further ado, if you don’t know it yet, I present the author of the book “My Life as a Reporter”, by Zé de Aquino – according to journalist Cláudio de Souza, the first director of Placar magazine – where he was part of the team at Placar, launched in 1970 is the best sports reporter in Brazil. He won the Esso Journalism Award in 1969 with the series “The Player is a Slave”, with journalist Michel Edouard Marius Laurence. The eight reports are in full at the end of the book, in its eight reports.
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It was Laurence who, on TV Globo, invited him to comment on the 1982 World Cup. There, he formed one of the station’s teams to cover World Cups and was editor-in-chief. He also worked for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo and SporTV and today he is at Terra Esportes.
So, let’s get to the book?
Don’t expect chronological order and nothing super tidy – after all, the life of a reporter is just as you’ll find out when you read it.
And there is nothing better than the author himself, Zé de Aquino, about his book: “The result of this apparent chaos should lead to a collection of joyful, exciting moments, of tension, of fear. Facts that I experienced on the reporting front and that, I imagine, young people who seek journalism, and even those who have already entered it a good couple of years ago, will hardly experience. After all, the world of communication has changed a lot, transforming the way we report. People don’t go to the places of the facts so much, now brought about by television images and the impressive speed of the internet. The immediacy of social networks has made professionals lose their monopoly on producing news. But there is nothing to rob those who have the soul of a reporter of the privilege of telling stories – like the ones I have seen and experienced.”
Zé and Pelé
