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Renato Martins

São Paulo
Covers:  financial markets, sex workers' rights, world news, economics
Doesn't Cover: fashion, science
Journalist, activist for sex workers' rights

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Have been covering world news since 1985.

1985-86: Folha de S. Paulo (daily newspaper), first as a staff writer at the foreign news desk, then wiith the front page crew)

1986-88: KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) in Seoul, with freelance jobs on the side for BBC, Radio France Internationale, Radio Vaticana, Tribuna de Macau, Joven Pan)

1989-95: Folha again: foreign news desk, op-ed pages

1996- Agencia Estado's financial newswire: covering world news, mostly economics and global markets.

What was your first job as a journalist?

After a few part-time jobs (in a museum, in a science magazine), I joined Folha de S. Paulo as a staff writer (foreign news desk).

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Oh yes, Remingtons.

How is social media changing news?

Big newsapers will disappear. It will be a long agony