Some articles produced while working as a reporter and copydesk editor.

Newspaper sections:

Human Resources (Empregos): March/01-July/01, reporter

    Nominated for the Folha de S. Paulo Prize 2001
    ["Assédio moral apressa demissão",  01/07/2001, Investigative report: 7 texts + picture.]
        Moral harassment in the workplace: series of reports discussing the humiliation perpetrated by employers
         on employees in order to force their resignation. The aim is either to avoid the pay of employees' rights
         or to get rid of people with job stability and different political views. The reports present stories of people
         who have faced such an ordeal; outline who are the prospective victims and what does the law have to
         say about the issue and feature an interview with a French psychiatrist specializing in moral harassment..

     "Conforto é o de menos", 29/04/2001
      "Encorpado, saboroso e lucrativo", 15/07/2001
      "Quando dançar é um bom negócio", 22/07/2001
     "Queijos e vinhos: saiba como comprar e fazer a combinação certa", 19/08/2001
 

Economics (Dinheiro): Nov/00-Feb/01, copydesk editor

    Activities:

• edit articles, write explanatory texts, create mini-texts for artwork to illustrate reports;
• translate and edit reports from newsagencies (Reuters, AP, EFE, France Presse)

Science: Sept/00-Oct/00, reporter

    Activities:

• write articles, create mini-texts for artwork to illustrate reports;
• translate and edit reports from newsagencies (Reuters, AP, EFE, France Presse)

Real Estate (Imóveis):

    "Contrato de lote tem "parcelas-surpresa",  05/11/2000 [Investigative report]
 

Mais (Weekly Magazine of Science and Culture):

    "O físico que esqueceu a tabuada", 01/10/2000
     The physicist who forgot how to calculate: the story of a physicist who, after suffering a lesion
     on his brain's left temporal lobe, lost the capacity to do mathematical calculations.

Travel (Turismo):

    "Curaçao tenta cumprir lições de economia do colonizador",  07/06/2004 [4 texts, with Noeli Menezes Soares]
    "Cruzar mar de lama é esporte na Holanda",  07/10/2002 [5 texts]
     "Neve dá tom europeu a Urubici",  03/09/2001 [5 texts]
    "Amazônia:  Apagão não atinge hotel de selva", 28/05/2001
 

  Special report on child stress (title  Estresse não é brincadeira, 05/10/2000):
    Child Stress: No Kidding: four reports out of a special issue on child stress. The articles
     outline the biological causes and consequences of stress on children's body and mind,
     featuring also a discussion on the use of antidepressants on the treatment of children's
     anxiety and depression.

•     "Estresse diminui resistência a infecções e reduz criatividade"
•      "Criança toma remédio de adulto e vai para o divã"
•      "Gastrite e hipertensão não são privilégio de gente grande"
•     "Brincar na infância torna ratos menos agressivos"