The journalist and presenter Glória Maria died, on the morning of this Thursday (2), in Rio de Janeiro due to complications from brain cancer.
The information was confirmed by TV Globo, the company for which she had been working since the early 1970s.
“In 2019, Glória was diagnosed with lung cancer, successfully treated with immunotherapy, and brain metastasis, treated surgically – initially also successfully. In the middle of last year, the journalist began a new phase of treatment to combat new brain metastases, which, unfortunately, has ceased to be effective in recent days”, reported the station’s advisory in a note.
“Glória marked her career as one of the most talented professionals in Brazilian journalism, leaving a legacy of accomplishments, examples and pioneering spirit for Globo and its professionals”, added TV Globo.
The journalist leaves two daughters, Laura and Maria.
Glória had been hospitalized at the Copa Star hospital, in Copacabana, since January 4th. In December of last year, the doyen of global journalism was removed from the presentation of “Globo Repórter” to take care of her health.
It hadn’t been her first removal for medical reasons. Glória Maria was away for almost two years from presenting the program due to, initially, a medical leave to operate on a brain tumor, at the end of 2019, and then due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
pioneer journalist
Glória collected moments when she accomplished something for the first time in Brazilian journalism.
She was the first reporter to go live, and in color, on Jornal Nacional, when in 1977 she showed the movement of cars leaving on a weekend in the capital of Rio de Janeiro.
In a report to Memória Globo, she recalled that the lighting to make the live link burned out a minute before the live entry.
“I was hard, rigid, because I couldn’t make a mistake. It was the first live entry. There were five, ten minutes left, it was the technician who had the phone to give me the ‘go’. When the lightbulb burned out, there was one minute left before the live entry. The way was to turn on the light of Veraneio (the car used by the station in the reports)”, said the journalist.
Glória also made the first HD broadcast on Brazilian television, in a report by Fantástico in 2007.
On TV Globo’s Sunday show, the journalist collected more than 100 visited countries. She covered the Malvinas war, in 1982, the invasion of the Brazilian embassy in Peru by a terrorist group, in 1996, the Olympic Games in Atlanta, in 1996, for example.
She did interviews with several heads of state – she even said that the military dictator João Figueiredo had her as an enemy.
“Wherever he arrived, the former president would say to security: ‘Don’t let that black girl get close to me’”, he recalled to Memória Globo.
She has also interviewed the greatest personalities on the planet, such as Michael Jackson, Harrison Ford, Leonardo DiCaprio and Madonna.
career start
Glória Maria Matta da Silva was born in Rio de Janeiro, the daughter of tailor Cosme Braga da Silva and housewife Edna Alves Matta.
He studied in public schools, where he learned English, French and Latin.
While studying Journalism at PUC-Rio, he combined his studies with a job as an operator at Embratel.
In 1970, a colleague took her to be a radio listener for TV Globo in Rio, where she worked for the rest of her life.
Source: CNN Brasil
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