Irineu Marinho

Irineu Marinho Coelho de Barros (born June 19, 1876 in Niterói , †  August 21, 1925 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian journalist. He was a pioneer of journalism and publisher in Brazil in the early 20th century . He founded the evening newspaper A Noite on July 18, 1911 and the O Globo newspaper on July 29, 1925 , the flagship of today's Grupo Globo .

Life

Family and origin

His father João Marinho Coelho Barros came from Celorico de Basto , a small village in the Braga district in Portugal . At the age of 13 he emigrated to Brazil and settled in the city of Resende in the state of Rio de Janeiro . An uncle of his already lived there; marrying Edwiges Souza Barros, a cousin of the second degree.

Irineu's father worked as an accountant and auditor from an early age , a kind of asset manager at the time . In 1958 he became a Brazilian citizen and was able to hold some public offices which brought him social prestige . Among other awards, he worked as the administrator of the Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Resende and received the rank of Cavalier of Freemasonry . After financial setbacks, however, he moved to Niterói. His son Irineu Marinho was born there on July 19, 1876, the youngest child of the family.

Career

Irineu, who comes from a well-to-do family, was already active as a journalist, publicist and editor while he was still at school. He founded the two school magazines A Pena and O Ensaio as early as 1891 and worked regularly as an author for the magazine O Fluminense . At the Diário de Notícias he learned the newspaper business from scratch when he worked on the review . In 1893, at the suggestion of his friend Antonio Leal da Costa, he joined the Gazeta de Notícias as a proofreader at the age of 17 . Irineu Marinho had previously won a competition and was selected for the job. At that time, the paper was one of the most important morning newspapers in what was then the Brazilian capital . In addition to working as a proofreader, he wrote reports on the first events of the armed uprising of the Revolta da Armada , part of the Revolução Federalista .

The following year he accepted an invitation to work for the newspaper A Notícia . The editor was Manoel de Oliveira Rocha . Known as "Rochinha", the journalist was one of the great masters and role models of the young journalist. Although there again worked as a proofreader, it was his absolute will to become a reporter . So he left A Noticia and moved to A Tribuna , where his friends Antonio Leal da Costa and Eurycles de Mattos, future manager and O Globo editor-in-chief, were already employed. He began his career as a police reporter and reviewer with the A Tribuna .

In 1911 he and his friends started their own project with Rios' first evening newspaper, A Noite , and became a partner. During a trip to Europe he was ousted by his opponent and co-owner Geraldo Rocha as a minority shareholder of the newspaper by a financial trick. In 1925, Irineu founded his own newspaper, O Globo , the first edition of which appeared on July 29th with an initial circulation of almost 33,500 copies. In doing so, he laid the foundation for today's Globo empire . Just three weeks after the newspaper was founded, Irineu suffered a fatal heart attack . Before his eldest son Roberto could follow in his footsteps, the journalist Euricles de Matos took over the post of editor-in-chief on the advice of his mother Francisca.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} IRINEU MARINHO ( Memento from August 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). robertomarinho.com. Accessed August 24, 2016 (Portuguese)