Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Communication and Culture and the Department of Expressions and Languages of the School of Communication of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGCOM / ECO-UFRJ). She is a Research Productivity Fellow at CNPq, and is the leader of the Media Research, Audiovisual Journalism and Education Group. She graduated in Journalism in Graduation at ECO-UFRJ and finished his master"s and doctorate courses at PPGCOM / UFRJ. He holds a postdoctoral degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and from Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Televisão e Telejornalismo: transições, A linguagem do Telejornal, Pensando e Fazendo Jornalismo Audiovisual and coauthor of Pantanal: A Reinvenção da Telenovela (with Arlindo Machado). She has articles published in renowned scientific journals. She was a founding partner of the Brazilian Association of Journalism Researchers (SBPJor), where she served as executive editor of Brazilian Journalism Research (BJR), vice president and member of the scientific council. Currently, she is coordinator of the COMPÓS Journalism Studies WG; Representative of the Center for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CFCH) of UFRJ at the Postgraduate Council (CEPG) of the same institution and member of the editorial staff of journals specialized in media studies and journalism. She has experience in the field of Communication, both academic, as a teacher and researcher, and in the professional practice of journalism, with studies, articles and orientations focused on the following topics: audiovisual journalism, television journalism, television, media and education, television analysis and journalism teaching.