Leilane Neubarth Teixeira (born November 15, 1958) is a Brazilian journalist,

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and writer.

Biography

Neubarth was born in

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, daughter of an Ad Executive father and a

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mother. Her parents moved to

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while she was still a child and she grew up there. Leilane made her television career debut in 1979 at

Rede Globo TV Globo (stylized as tvglobo; , ), formerly known as Rede Globo de Televisão (; shortened to Rede Globo) or simply known as Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto Marinho on 26 April 1965 ...

as a trainee, while still in university. In 1982, after graduation, Neubarth moved back to Rio de Janeiro, seeking better career opportunities. She achieved a deep interest in news covering. From 1986 until 2017, she was married with the

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, Olivio Petit. During her years, Neubarth was developing a new type of journalism, to fit different sorts of coverage, from documentaries to interviews, daily news programs and music events, such as

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. In 1990, she left Globo and joined

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, where she hosted a Sunday night show, focused on many issues and sorts of news. A year later, Globo invited her back to present their Sunday night show ''

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''. Years later, following her instinct of daily journalism, Leilane began presenting

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with Renato Machado from its studios in Rio de Janeiro. In 1999, she had a participation in the Granada-Dakar Rally as the navigator, which she published her experiences in the book ''Faróis de Milha'', in 2000. Later, Neubarth moved to

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, the Cable TV channel from ''Rede Globo'', where she currently presents the news at 18:00.

Biography

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