Julio Cruz Neto

• Company Overview: advertisement agency
• Research and content writing for Bradesco Seguros, insurance company, on Linkedin
• Screenplays for lives presented by Cielo, financial company, in its social networks
• Adapted writing styles based on different platforms such as social media, blog posts, and print materials.
• Conducted thorough research on diverse topics, producing well-informed pieces that resonated with readers.

• Research, interview and data analysis to write a dystopian book called “Rally in the Amazon Desert”, a mixed narrative that combines fiction and reality, addressing environment, human rights, politics and economics.

• Company Overview: daily paper and website: www.brasildefato.com.br
• Raised awareness about important issues by covering underreported stories affecting local communities.
• Streamlined reporting processes with effective time management skills, meeting tight deadlines consistently without compromising quality.
• Main features subjects:

- 50th anniversary of the military coup in Chile

- Peronism (a political ideology) in Argentina nowadays

- Why Hamas attacked Israel

• Company Overview: institution dedicated to arts and culture
• Utilized exceptional writing, editing, and proofreading skills to produce engaging and error-free content.
• Organized material to research and complete writing tasks.

• Company Overview: social and cultural institution
• Content creation (social media, festivals catalogues, press releases etc)
• Communication team managing during events
• Completed thorough research into assigned topics.
• Proved successful working within tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment.
• Provided writing support in fast-paced environment for variety of public-facing materials.

• Company Overview: organization that supports human rights and migration
• Wrote press releases for routine use and crisis management.
• Optimized social media presence through strategic content creation, leading to significant growth in followers and engagement rates.
• Ghostwriting for articles published in newspapers.
• Managed email marketing campaigns by crafting compelling newsletters that drove subscriber engagement.

• Company Overview: multimedia platform
• Interviewed individuals by phone, video chat and in-person to write scripts.
• Wrote circa 500 scripts and directed circa 500 one-minute videos.
• Brainstormed ideas to create useful content for clients.
• Conducted comprehensive interviews with industry experts, adding credibility and depth to videos presented by the same experts.

Here are my main articles for this magazine, all written after trips to the mentioned places:

- Soul's labyrinth (about Petra, in Jordan)
- Searching for a new order (about Cairo in times of revolution – Arab spring)
- Crossing without borders (a journey through the Chilean lakes)
- The decadent richness of São Luís do Maranhão, in the far northeast of Brazil
- Under my feet, the "chapadões" (The Chapada dos Veadeiros by it's residents)

• Managed competing deadlines with efficiency.

• Coordinated the whole content production of Movimento Empreenda (a digital platform to help and stimulate entrepreneurs), including the production and direction of educative and inspirational videos.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of high-quality content.

• Company Overview: "Aliás" was the features section of O Estado de S.Paulo, a well-renowned Brazilian daily paper.
• Wrote important feature reports, one of them about Andrew Higgins, the boat constructor established in New Orleans (USA) who was an important character of the Second World War.
• Interviewed individuals by phone, video chat and in-person to write news stories.
• Conducted interviews with subject matter experts to generate topics.

• Company Overview: magazines publishing house
• Magazines publishing house

• Company Overview: investigative journalism
• Notes about leaks from Wikileaks
• Investigative journalism

• Company Overview: international news website
• Managed 15 correspondents around the world plus a tiny local team of two editors, two trainees and one special reporter.
• Managed approximately 20 e-mails every day from correspondents and other team members.

• Company Overview: public communications company
• Managed a team of 8 editors and around 20 reporters and trainees in the role of executive editor.
• Collaborated with other journalists and departments to produce well-rounded and comprehensive news coverage.
• As a reporter, I did international coverages in Argentina, Bolivia and Colombia.
• Wrote and submitted accurate, engaging, and fact-checked stories.

• Company Overview: Ministry of Education
• Managed a team of around 10 editors and reporters, with the production of several daily notes and articles about the actions of the Ministry of Education.
• Writer of reports about basic education, upon research
• Sustained and enhanced publication performance and fostered reliability, transparency and fairness.

• Company Overview: media company at São Paulo
• Delivered at least 1 whole page of the sports section ready to print.
• Managed multiple stories simultaneously while maintaining a high level of organization to ensure successful completion within established time frames.
• Elevated content quality with thorough fact-checking procedures to uphold journalistic integrity across all published materials.

• Company Overview: media company at São Paulo
• Developed and pitched story ideas to editors.
• Collaborated with other journalists and departments to produce well-rounded and comprehensive news coverage.
• Developed expertise in covering various beats, demonstrating versatility and adaptability as a reporter.
• Exceeded deadlines consistently, producing accurate and well-written news stories under tight time constraints.