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Domingos João Meirelles (born May 8, 1940 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian journalist and writer.

Biography
Domingos João Meirelles is the son of a family of European immigrants who arrived in Brazil after the 1930 Revolution. His father, João Américo Meirelles, was a tram conductor until he established himself as a merchant, owning a grocery store. His mother, Maria Adelaide Félix Meirelles, worked as a domestic worker.

Career
In 1965, after working several jobs, Domingos applied for an internship at the newspaper Última Hora. Six months later, he was hired as a reporter. He remained at the newspaper until 1968 when he transferred to the magazine Quatro Rodas, published by Editora Abril. In a high-impact report, he exposed irregularities committed at the DETRAN RJ (the Rio de Janeiro State Traffic Department), even obtaining a driver's license for a blind man. The report earned Domingos the ExxonMobil Journalism Award. He was then invited to join the team at the magazine Realidade, in São Paulo, where he worked until 1972.

Back in Rio de Janeiro, still in 1972, he had a brief stint at O Jornal. He then worked at Jornal da Tarde, where he wrote a series of reports about the 50 years of the Coluna Prestes. With the material gathered during the series' research, he wrote the book As Noites das Grandes Fogueiras (The Nights of the Great Bonfires), which would be published more than 20 years later, in 1996, and would win the prestigious Prêmio Jabuti.

He started working at the newspaper O Globo in 1975, signing, among other reports, a series about an earthquake that occurred in Guatemala in 1976. He was also one of those responsible for the Plantão Globo section, which registered complaints from residents of neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro. In 1976, he moved to O Estado de S. Paulo, where he was a special reporter for almost 10 years.

He made his debut on Rede Globo in December 1985, on Jornal Nacional, invited by then director of Central Globo de Jornalismo, Armando Nogueira. Shortly thereafter, he also reported for Fantástico and Globo Repórter. In 1989, he won the Líbero Badaró Award for television journalism, offered by Revista Imprensa, with a report for Globo Repórter on the smuggling of stolen cars on the Brazil-Paraguay border. In 1992, another of his reports for Globo Repórter, on the violence of landowners in Pará, won the King of Spain Television Award.

In 1992, he produced a report aired on Fantástico about the disappearance of Brazilian pianist Tenório Júnior on the night of the coup that overthrew Isabelita Perón in Argentina. The work won the Vladimir Herzog Journalism Award. After the report was aired, the Argentine government decided to compensate families of Brazilians who were victims of the military dictatorship in that country, including Tenório Júnior's family.

Domingos Meirelles left Rede Globo in 1996 and joined SBT, where he became part of the team for the program "SBT Repórter".

In April 1999, he returned to Rede Globo at the invitation of Marluce Dias, who was then the general director of the station. He was hired by RecordTV in 2000 to host the news program Câmera Record, but he left the network before the show debuted.

In 2000, he returned to Rede Globo again and replaced journalist Marcelo Rezende as the host of the program Linha Direta, which aired until December 6, 2007. He was also the host of the program's special editions, aired on the last Thursdays, Linha Direta - Justiça, which premiered in 2003, and Linha Direta Mistério, launched in 2005. In 2003, on behalf of the program's team, he received the Tiradentes Medal, the highest honor awarded by the legislative power of Rio de Janeiro. In 2007, also representing the Linha Direta team, he received the medal and diploma of the International Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences of the United States, awarded to the finalists of the International Emmy Award.

Still under contract with Rede Globo, he was away from TV until 2014, when he signed a contract with Record to host Repórter Record Investigação. The first program aired on April 28, 2014 and was produced until July 2016, when the broadcaster decided to end the show, despite it having won several awards for Record.

In February 2017, he renewed his contract with Record for two years. At the network, he narrated the news program Câmera Record and also worked on Repórter Record Investigação. Meirelles stayed there until February 2021, when the contract was terminated by the broadcaster.

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