Dimenstein leaves Folha's Editorial Board.
The journalist, who has collaborated with the São Paulo daily newspaper since 1985, says he will dedicate himself to new projects focused on innovation, in addition to directing the Catraca Livre website and providing commentary for CBN radio.
Contact Us December 11, 2013 marks the end of journalist Gilberto Dimenstein's partnership with Folha de S. Paulo. The professional, who has collaborated with the São Paulo daily newspaper since 1985, is leaving the company – where he works as a columnist and editorial advisor – to dedicate himself to new projects, in addition to directing the Catraca Livre website and providing commentary for CBN radio.
It was precisely in his column in the online version of Folha that Dimenstein announced his departure. In his last text produced for the publication, he praised the newspaper's owner and editor-in-chief, Otavio Frias Filho. "He always encouraged me to be daring, exchanging the safe for the uncertain, cultivating my incurable addiction to the adrenaline of the unusual."
In his farewell column for Folha, Dimenstein spoke of innovation and Catraca Livre, a website he created with a group of journalism students to provide free cultural tips to everyone in the city of São Paulo. The project was even chosen as the best citizenship blog in Portuguese by the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
New project
Last Friday, the 6th, days before announcing his departure from the newspaper, Dimenstein revealed to the Comunique-se Portal his next project: creating a newsroom whose main theme will be innovation. "I have an irresistible fascination with those who think outside the box," he commented. Still without a name, the digital platform project is expected to launch in early 2014.
The journalist emphasizes that, even while focused on other projects, he will always feel like a part of the Folha Group's media outlet. "I leave Folha with the gratitude of someone who had the support to make life a laboratory," he states in his column. "But Folha will never leave me: it will always be associated with the feeling that the exercise of imagination is what makes us unique and relevant."