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BEATRIZ WAGNER
Beatriz leads the team as the Executive Producer and joined SBS Radio in 1994. Apart from SBS, her main job and passion, she is also the correspondent in Australia for Portuguese News Agency LUSA and write chronicles for RADAR, the first Brazilian magazine in Australia.
She tried to study Architecture at uni, but because she enjoyed parties so much, only got her second option: Journalism. Regrets? None!
She was an university student for 11 years: got degrees as Journalist, Marketing, PR, Publicity. Did halfway Sociology and Languages: Portuguese, English and German, and a PhD in Communications at UAB/Spain. And working at the same time as freelancer or on TV, as executive producer and chief of staff at RBS TV, in Florianópolis.
She dedicated many years to the academic life as lecturer on TV journalism and cinema at UFSC, until migrating to Australia.
Here she discovered SBS, got some radio journalistic awards and loves her job, a miniature UN, but with journalists only.
She became another person after covering the Timorese saga daily, since 1994.
Photo: interviewing Fernando Pessoa in Lisbon |
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RUI BERNARDES
Rui Bernardes has been working for SBS since 1994 and enjoys that fact that SBS provides a unique opportunity to work with colleagues from different nationalities and cultures. |
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CRISTINA NASCIMENTO
Cristina has a Bachelor Degree in Social Communciations from Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in Lisbon. Journalist since 2001, Cristina is a SBS Portuguese Language Program contributor. She is currently a broadcaster and news reporter at the Grupo Renascença, a radio group with great audience in Portugal.
In 2004 Cristina went to Iraq when the Portuguese soldiers’ were in that country. She also covered the bushfires in the Algarve region in 2003 and the Portuguese electoral campaign for the European Parliament in 2009.
Cristina is married. She likes movies, musicals, to be with friends and family. |
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RENAN ANTUNES DE OLIVEIRA
Renan is one of our SBS Radio correspondents in Brazil, he brings the latest news bulletins for the Saturday program.
Renan worked in many media outlets in Brazil, including Revista Veja, Gazeta do Povo, Gazeta do Paraná, RBS and IstoÉ. He also worked in New York as an international correspondent for the Estado de São Paulo newspaper.
In 2004 Renan won the prestigious Prêmio Esso de Reportagem he was also nominated as Journalist of the Year at the Rio Grande do Sul’s Prêmio Press.
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LUCIANO BORGES
Luciano is SBS’s sports contributor in Brazil since 1995, he brings the latest sports news to the Thursday’s programs. |
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RUI VIEGAS
Rui Viegas, 34 years old, started working as a journalist in Portugal in the early 1990’s. He worked as a news reporter at TVI and Sport TV and as a correspondent at Rádio Renascença (Portuguese Catholic radio).
Rui is a senior sports journalist and editor at the Rádio Renascença. He is also a contributor for BBC Radio (London). |
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HÉLIO RIBEIRO
Helio studied Journalism at UniCEUB in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, in spite of being awarded a scholarship to study Theatre at NSU in Louisiana, in the US. There are no regrets there!
He also completed studies in Marketing, Multimedia, Graphic Operations and Pre Press in Australia. He started at SBS in 2002 as part of the Lusofonicos Youth Program.
At SBS he also produced a radio series called The People’s Next Door for the ConFusion Project. You will most certainly find him at a movie theatre or at a concert when he is not at work. |
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ALEXANDRE SPENGLER
Alexandre started his journalistic career in 1998 as a reporter for the "Mais Saber" Magazine, with focus on Education. Then he worked in many different press companies as a public relations, TV and radio reporter, scriptwriter, presenter and director.
Most of his career it has been built in the public broadcast companies such the Fundação Luiz Chagas de Rádio e Televisão Educativa, TV Assembléia (Brazil) and now SBS (Australia).
As an independent producer, Alexandre directed documentaries including Picolé (2004) e Causos: Uma Poética Pantaneira (2007). The films were exhibited in Brazil, Spain and Chile.
In Australia since 2008, Alexandre is a contributor in the SBS Portuguese Language Program and he is also as a free lancing journalist for the Sydney Magazine "Falamos Português" - "We Speak Portuguese".
Executive Producer of Favela Productions, he has a Bachelors in Media and Social Sciences as well a Graduate Diploma in Public Politics and Gender. |
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LUCIANA FRAGUAS
Luciana joined the SBS team in 2001-02 and was back to work with us in 2008. She has a Bachelor Degree in Media (gained in 1992) from Brazil’s State University of Londrina and has also gained Graduate Diplomas in Communication and Marketing.
Luciana worked in newspapers, television and radio in Brazil, being newspapers her strongest career focus. She is a columnist and casual news correspondent to Brazilian media. Luciana is also an Accredited Translator and her main areas of interest are radio and online journalism. |
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LLOYD MARTINS
Lloyd joined the team in Sydney in December 2008 as a casual producer. Among other areas, he covers climate change and environment with our weekly Saturday segment, “Our Planet.”
Originally from Sydney, Lloyd migrated with his family to Portugal, as a child, where he lived until 2008. He completed a bachelor’s degree in Law at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2007, and is currently finishing a graduate law program at the University of New South Wales. He has experience working at a law firm and at an Aboriginal community legal centre.
Lloyd enjoys the challenge of radio journalism and working in a multicultural environment at SBS, where he is able to maintain ties with the Portuguese-speaking community. In his spare time, he likes going to the movies, keeping fit, and has a strong interest in alternative pop-rock music. |
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GIOVANA VITOLA
Giovana produces the weekly Vitória, a segment about Australian sports that airs on Thursdays.
Based in Sydney, Australia, she also works as a Brazilian news correspondent for nearly 3 years now.
She started as a news correspondent from New Deli in 2005. In 2006 she worked at the Deutsche Welle, in Germany and at the International Radio in China (Beijing). Giovana recently covered the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics and the Sri Lankan war for the Brazilian TV. |
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ANA CAROLINA RODRIGUES
Carol, a Brazilian journalist, is our program records volunteer. She spent her days listening to the program’s old news reports and transferring everything from tapes and cassettes to our new digital format. |
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GEOVANA D'ABREU ALVAREZ
Geovana graduted as a journalist from the Pontifícia Universidade Catolica of Rio Grande do Sul. She lives in Sydney since 2008 where she is currently studying Marketing.
She is a Radio SBS Portuguese Language Program inter on our online page, promoting events organised by and for the Portuguese speaking community. |
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