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Domingos João Meirelles (born May 8, 1940 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian journalist and writer.

Biography[edit]

Domingos João Meirelles is the son of a family of European immigrants who arrived in Brazil after the 1930 Revolution. His father, João Américo Meirelles, was a tram conductor until he established himself as a merchant, owning a grocery store. His mother, Maria Adelaide Félix Meirelles, worked as a domestic worker.

Career[edit]

In 1965, after working several jobs, Domingos applied for an internship at the newspaper Última Hora. Six months later, he was hired as a reporter. He remained at the newspaper until 1968 when he transferred to the magazine Quatro Rodas, published by Editora Abril. In a high-impact report, he exposed irregularities committed at the DETRAN RJ (the Rio de Janeiro State Traffic Department), even obtaining a driver's license for a blind man. The report earned Domingos the ExxonMobil Journalism Award. He was then invited to join the team at the magazine Realidade, in São Paulo, where he worked until 1972.

Back in Rio de Janeiro, still in 1972, he had a brief stint at O Jornal. He then worked at Jornal da Tarde, where he wrote a series of reports about the 50 years of the Coluna Prestes. With the material gathered during the series' research, he wrote the book As Noites das Grandes Fogueiras (The Nights of the Great Bonfires), which would be published more than 20 years later, in 1996, and would win the prestigious Prêmio Jabuti.

He started working at the newspaper O Globo in 1975, signing, among other reports, a series about an earthquake that occurred in Guatemala in 1976. He was also one of those responsible for the Plantão Globo section, which registered complaints from residents of neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro. In 1976, he moved to O Estado de S. Paulo, where he was a special reporter for almost 10 years.

He made his debut on Rede Globo in December 1985, on Jornal Nacional, invited by then director of Central Globo de Jornalismo, Armando Nogueira. Shortly thereafter, he also reported for Fantástico and Globo Repórter. In 1989, he won the Líbero Badaró Award for television journalism, offered by Revista Imprensa, with a report for Globo Repórter on the smuggling of stolen cars on the Brazil-Paraguay border. In 1992, another of his reports for Globo Repórter, on the violence of landowners in Pará, won the King of Spain Television Award.

In 1992, he produced a report aired on Fantástico about the disappearance of Brazilian pianist Tenório Júnior on the night of the coup that overthrew Isabelita Perón in Argentina. The work won the Vladimir Herzog Journalism Award. After the report was aired, the Argentine government decided to compensate families of Brazilians who were victims of the military dictatorship in that country, including Tenório Júnior's family.

Domingos Meirelles left Rede Globo in 1996 and joined SBT, where he became part of the team for the program "SBT Repórter".

In April 1999, he returned to Rede Globo at the invitation of Marluce Dias, who was then the general director of the station. He was hired by RecordTV in 2000 to host the news program Câmera Record, but he left the network before the show debuted.

In 2000, he returned to Rede Globo again and replaced journalist Marcelo Rezende as the host of the program Linha Direta, which aired until December 6, 2007. He was also the host of the program's special editions, aired on the last Thursdays, Linha Direta - Justiça, which premiered in 2003, and Linha Direta Mistério, launched in 2005. In 2003, on behalf of the program's team, he received the Tiradentes Medal, the highest honor awarded by the legislative power of Rio de Janeiro. In 2007, also representing the Linha Direta team, he received the medal and diploma of the International Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences of the United States, awarded to the finalists of the International Emmy Award.

Still under contract with Rede Globo, he was away from TV until 2014, when he signed a contract with Record to host Repórter Record Investigação. The first program aired on April 28, 2014 and was produced until July 2016, when the broadcaster decided to end the show, despite it having won several awards for Record.

In February 2017, he renewed his contract with Record for two years. At the network, he narrated the news program Câmera Record and also worked on Repórter Record Investigação. Meirelles stayed there until February 2021, when the contract was terminated by the broadcaster.

Prizes

Throughout his career, Meirelles has won over 40 awards, including three Esso Awards, four Vladimir Herzog Awards for Human Rights, and two King of Spain Awards for Television, the highest journalistic award for Portuguese and Spanish-speaking peoples. He was the only Brazilian to receive this award twice (in 1992 and 2016).

In 1994, he was decorated by the Brazilian Army with the Medal of the Peacemaker.

In 2006, the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro honored him with the Order of Police Merit, at the official rank.

He was also awarded a medal and diploma by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as the presenter of the program "Linha Direta," being one of the finalists for the International Emmy in 2007 in the documentary category.

In 2008, Linha Direta was once again a finalist for the Emmy award.

He was also awarded the titles of Cidadão Carioca by the City Council of Rio de Janeiro, and professor honoris causa by Faculdade de Minas (FAMINAS) in 2007.

He was awarded the Gamacom Prize by Gama Filho University in 1999, and the 2008 Journalism Personality Award by Veiga de Almeida University.

In 2011, he received the Miguel Costa Medal from the Military Police of the State of São Paulo.

In 2015, he received the JK Medal awarded by the Government of Minas Gerais.

In January 2015, he received the Order of Judicial Merit from the Regional Labor Court of the First Region in the rank of Commander.

He also received twelve silver plaques for lectures given at different educational institutions such as Estácio de Sá University, Superior School of War, and School of Magistracy of the State of Rio de Janeiro.

In recent years, he has participated in dozens of courses and seminars, among which stands out the VIII National Meeting of Strategic Studies, promoted in October 2008 by the Brazilian Air Force University (UNIFA), to examine and discuss the guidelines of the new National Defense Plan (PND).

Works[edit]

Reporters (collective work)
The Nights of the Great Bonfires: A History of the Prestes Column (Jabuti Award, Best Reportage of 1996)
1930. The Orphans of the Revolution. Won the Jabuti Award in 2006, in the Humanities category.
The Wars of the Gauchos: The History of Conflicts (collective work), which received the Açorianos Award in 2009.

Other activities[edit]

He was the director of the Union of Journalists of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro from 1975 to 1981, press officer of OAB-RJ, and president of the Cooperative of Press Professionals of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Coopim) between 1982 and 1986. He also served as editor of the former ABI Bulletin - now Jornal da ABI - the official organ of the Brazilian Press Association (ABI). He held the position of Financial Director of ABI from 2004 until 2013.

In 2012, he was elected, by acclamation, to chair number two of the Institute of Military Geography and History of Brazil. He is one of the five civilian historians who participate in the institution, and also participates in free courses on investigative journalism, literary journalism, writing techniques, and narrative structures for print and TV media. He gives lectures on contemporary history and crisis management.

Domingos was the director of the Rio de Janeiro Professional Journalists Union between 1975 and 1981. Also, starting in 1975, he held the position of cultural editor of the newspaper of the Brazilian Press Association (ABI). He left the institution in 1978, returning in 2004 as financial director, and in September 2014, he was elected president of the ABI. In 2005, he published his second book, "1930, The Orphans of the Revolution," which won the Jabuti Award in 2006. In September 2014, he was elected president of the Brazilian Press Association (ABI), received the Environmental Commendation of São Lourenço Hydrothermal Resort, and was awarded the Inconfidência Medal, conferred by the Government of Minas Gerais. In 2016, he was reelected president of the Brazilian Press Association (ABI) for a three-year term from 2016 to 2019.

Currently, Domingos is working on three simultaneous projects: a book about the making of his main reports, another one about the uprising of the Força Pública in São Paulo in 1924, and a third one about the war machine built by the Paulistas during the Constitutional Revolution of 1932.

Ligações externas[edit]

[[Category:Brazilian people of Portuguese descent]] [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Rio de janeiro journalist]] [[Category:Natural from Rio de Janeiro City]] [[Category:Man's who won jaburti prizes]]