Larissa Castro
JOURNALIST
About me
I was a very smart child and my mother says it's because I was born with my eyes open. I read and wrote it when I was 5 years old, at that time I wanted to be a nun when I grew up. I have also wanted to be an architect, biologist, astronomer and chef.
As a good Gemini, I always liked everything. At school I liked both history and mathematics, Portuguese and biology. I fell in love with specific subjects in each subject and I could never decide which college to go to or which career to pursue.
When I was 13 I had my first blog with two friends. At the time, we wrote about teenage things and everything we liked, I learned a lot about building the blog, designing it and writing for fun. At 14 I started writing Justin Bieber fanfics (a canonical event in the life of every teenager who is someone's fan). I built the entire blog from scratch and wrote 3 different stories, it was at that time that I realized my passion for writing.
At the age of 17, I participated in the first phase of the Brazilian Physics Olympiad, I was part of the UFRJ team that was coordinated by professor Rodrigo Capaz. I also participated in the first and second phase of the Brazilian Mathematics Olympiad. But I never wanted to pursue a career in the field and I never considered myself an exact sciences person.
Journalism appeared in my life like a wild card, everything I love + the possibility of working with it: reading, writing, chatting, asking, speaking and communicating about any subject. When journalism came to me, almost at the end of high school, my heart beat faster and I was sure that it was what I wanted to do in life.
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Academic trajectory
I joined the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 2020. In the third period I started my first trainee at the Lorena portal, within R7, which has an editorial line more focused on celebrities and reality shows. I had the opportunity to learn and develop a lot, from choosing an agenda to writing and formatting techniques. I was able to put all the theory I was learning into practice.
I participated in the extension project of the UFRJ Cultural Projects Support Center in which I worked as Social Media and improved my skills with social media platforms by promoting cultural events and developing content for social networks.
I worked as a writer at Mídia NINJA through an extension project at UFRJ. I wrote for the politics, culture and entertainment editorials. I participated in the coverage of the 2022 presidential elections and also worked as a reviewer during the coverage of the World Cup in Qatar.