EBC Brazil: Hélio Doyle to be the new president of the company

The journalist Hélio Doyle will be the new president of Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC). The announcement was made this Thursday (26) by the chief minister of the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic, Paulo Pimenta, through social networks.

The minister also announced members who will compose the company's board: Antonia Pellegrino will be the company's Content director, Flávia Filipini; Journalism director; Nicole Briones, Social Networks superintendent; and Jean Lima, EBC director-general.

The minister thanked the interim president of the company, Kariane Costa, and other members of the board, "with whom we will continue dialoguing to strengthen a democratic and quality EBC. Union and reconstruction!"

Hélio Doyle worked as reporter, editor and editor-in-chief at Correio Braziliense, O Estado de S. Paulo, Jornal de Brasília, Opinião, Folha de S.Paulo, Rede Globo, Veja, IstoÉ, Brasil Extra, Zero Hora, Jornal do Brasil. For 28 years, he was a professor at the Faculdade de Comunicação da Universidade de Brasília (UnB). He also worked as head of the press office in the Federal District Government. He is the author of the books Assim é a Velha Política and Interregno - o feiti de Tobago.