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My name is Paulo Henrique Brazão Sobral, although you will probably not read this last name in the signature of my texts (nothing against it, I just like Brazão more). I was born in July 11^th in the year of 1984 (reminds you of George Orwell in something?), so, while I write this text, I’m 19. As I deeply expect that this site have a very long life, I would be extremely happy to be already a sexagenary when you read this (challenge to the 2040’s...). I study at the Journalism Course in the Federal Fluminense University, as the majority of my FAZENDO MEDIA mates. Until now, I am one of the newest in the crew to publishe a text, very pleased and honored for that, in this newspaper where both experimentation and profissionalism can get along so well.

Edição # 9 - december, 2003.

During all my childhood, I believed that I would be a doctor. Not because my parents asked me to or tried to influence me; I just thought that it was fantastic and some people said my hands and my patience would take me this way. In 1998, when I was coursing the 8^th grade, I decided to take Journalism. It was a radical change, but at that time my best friend thought of studying Social Communication and I started to be interested in it. Talking to another friend’s father, I found out that my hands and my patience could be used in other things and not just operating a scalpel. With a pen, I could align these two qualities to my ability in dealing with words, and that was the final dot in my decision. 

I think that, when I found out that Journalism wasn’t just a synonym for Writing, I fell in love with the thing I wanted to do. I was sure of my social and informating function in which was the heavy responsability of being the “bridge” between the news and the public. But nowadays I don’t delude myself in seeing that bridge, many times, is a one-way road. Sometimes it’s so thin that it seems to be a loose rope; sometimes it’s so dark that it seems not to be a good way to pass by. And worst: sometimes the bridges can be uncountable, but none of them takes us to the right way. 

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