Tiago Leifert
Brazilian journalist
Tiago Rodrigues de Leifert (born 22 May 1980) is a Brazilian journalist and television presenter.
Biography
Tiago was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He is the son of Gilberto Leifert, director of market relations for Rede Globo network. Tiago is of Jewish and Portuguese descent.
Career
Leifert began his career as a reporter for the traditional "Desafio ao Galo", a program dedicated to amateur soccer. He majored in Journalism and Psychology from the University of Miami and was a trainee in Journalism from American network NBC. In 2004 he started working at TV Vanguarda, an affiliate of TV Globo in São José dos Campos, in the interior of São Paulo, where he was editor and presenter of Vanguarda Mix, the broadcaster's youth entertainment program. Leifert started working at Rede Globo presenting the Pro Rad in 2006 and videogame related stories for Esporte Espetacular. He covered the Brazilian football season in 2008, the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
In January 2009, he became the new editor-in-chief and presenter of Globo Esporte SP, when he introduced a new format, allowing the use of a teleprompter, the TP, a resource used by journalism to allow for the reading of the previously written text, to be dispensed with without looking away from the camera. The program's spontaneity, catchphrases and humorous frames became the program's trademarks, such as, for example, with the strikers Pedrão, from Grêmio Recreativo Barueri, now Grêmio Prudente, Nei Paraíba do Guarani and Val Baiano (whom he honored with a funk ao alive) of the Flamengo.
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