Pedro de Santana Rocha

Pedro de Santana Rocha (* around 1993 in Aracaju , Sergipe State , Brazil ; † January 3, 2020 in Bela Vista, São Paulo district , Brazil) was a Brazilian journalist and reporter . He has worked primarily for major Brazilian online media, writing on pop culture, series, music, films, and visual arts, and reviewing exhibitions. He was also an LGBT activist through his texts .

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He came from a family of teachers. He began his professional career as an intern in 2013 at the Sergipe State Bar, after studying at the Universidade Federal de Sergipe. Then he first worked for the newspaper Caderno 2, for the state of São Paulo. He has worked for the online magazine Portal Papel Pop since 2016 until he switched to Exitoina as editor-in-chief in March 2019, a site that works with Rolling Stone Brazil. As a fan of Madonna , he was invited to a live broadcast on Brazilian television on Madonna's 60th birthday and interviewed as an expert. He conducted interviews with Brazilian and international celebrities, for example with Pabllo Vittar , Anitta , but also with Ben Affleck , Gal Gadot and Henry Cavill during the premiere of Batman in Mexico . On January 3, 2020, he was found dead in his apartment in São Paulo at the age of 27. The cause of death was cardiac arrest or heart attack . He was buried on January 5, 2020 in the Cemeterio Parque Colina da Saude cemetery in Aracaju, Sergipe.

Rocha as a journalist

Rocha was considered an intrepid journalist who also messed with the elite and powerful personalities and was not afraid of unpleasant questions, which earned him respect. His struggle in his works - whether in print or online - was directed against the LGBT community, which he supported with his texts, especially since he was part of this community himself. He wrote mainly about pop culture , series and music, films and visual arts and was also active as an art critic, for example for an exhibition on Lina Bo Bardi .

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• Jornalista Pedro Rocha morre aos 27 years in São Paulo | O SPEED. In: otempo.com.br. January 4, 2020(Portuguese). 
• Morre Pedro Rocha, aos 27 anos, jornalista especializado em cultura pop e editor-chefe do site Exitoína | Revista Ana Maria. In: anamaria.uol.com.br. (Portuguese). 
• Liliane Alves: Jornalista Pedro Rocha morre aos 27 anos. In: portalfalanordeste.com. January 5, 2020 (Portuguese). 
• Monica Pinto: Jornalista sergipano Pedro Rocha, de 27 anos, morre em São Paulo. In: f5news.com.br. F5 News - Sergipe Atualizado, January 5, 2020 (Portuguese).