Alice-Maria

Alice-Maria Reiniger (born 1945) is a retired Brazilian television journalist who held many important positions, particularly with TV Globo, being its first female director of television journalism.

Early life Alice-Maria Tavares Reiniger was born in Guaraciaba in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais on 31 January 1945. She graduated in journalism in 1966 from the Faculdade Nacional de Filosofia (National Philosophy Faculty), which later became the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In the same year she joined TV Globo in Rio de Janeiro as an intern, one year after the channel's foundation.

Career Reiniger stayed with TV Globo for 23 years. She actively participated in the creation of Jornal Nacional in 1969, the first Brazilian programme shown nationally, together with Armando Nogueira. In 1973, she took over his role of TV news director at Globo. She became responsible not only for the news broadcasts, but also for the editorial profiles of the programmes and the preparation of video reports.

In 1976 there was a fire at the TV Globo studio in Rio de Janeiro, caused by a short circuit in the air conditioning system, making the news room inoperative. Reiniger took a group of journalists and hurriedly flew to São Paulo to ensure that that night's Jornal Nacional went on air. The programme included footage of the Rio fire. In 1982, Alice-Maria coordinated the coverage of the 1982 elections, the first direct election since the establishment of the military regime by the 1964 coup d'état. Globo mobilized around 25,000 people across the country, to report the results and carry out analyses, interviews and reports.