Gloria Maria, a pioneering TV journalist in Brazil whose career took off in the first half of the 1970s, has gone away at the age of 73. Maria is regarded as the nation’s first well-known Black woman journalist in that country’s predominately white male media landscape.
According to news source Power360, Maria had apparently been hospitalized in Rio de Janeiro since the beginning of the year while battling a brain tumor; however, the specific reason for her demise was not made public.
She has received praise from Brazilian President Lula, who called her “one of the finest journalists” and praised the way she interviewed well-known people to cover “important moments” in Brazil and global history.
Early in the 1970s, Maria started her career as a reporter for TV Globo in Brazil.
She traveled to more than 100 nations throughout the course of her career, conducting interviews with international leaders like US President Jimmy Carter, and celebrities like Michael Jackson, and was the first Brazilian woman journalist to cover a war when she covered the Falklands War in the South Atlantic.
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The family is yet to make an official announcement about the circumstances of Gloria Maria’s passing. According to AgenciaBrasil and G1, she is an inspiration to many generations of Black women in the nation and many Black journalists look up to her.
According to Metropoles, 16-year-old Mirella Archangelo, who notably filmed with Gloria Maria in 2017, recalled how she originally intended to be a teacher before her encounter with Maria inspired her to pursue her dream of becoming a journalist.