When I was a kid, my mom used to ask me to stop by a kiosk and buy the newspaper and, even though it wasn't for me, I’d be quick to leaf through it before my parents took it. I think that’s where my interest for journalism and communication began: I liked to flip through the pages and be informed about what was going on. After all, knowledge is something that no one can take away from us. Over time, I realized that I was quite curious even for the most banal things and I believe that, for this reason, I never got out of the “why” age. In the 7th grade I already said that I wanted to embark on the world of communication and, until today, I have not said anything else.
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Naturally, my path had to go through Communication Sciences, where I graduated from the University of Minho, having chosen Journalism and Information as my area of specialization. In the first year I joined ComUM, the undergraduate students' newspaper, as a sports writer, where I had my first serious contact with journalism. The following year, I was invited to join the board and I was editor of the same section. In addition, I wrote for the culture section and collaborated in the communication department of GACCUM, the Group of Students of Communication Sciences. As I like to be active, at the end of my degree, I did a voluntary extracurricular internship at Jornal de Notícias, where I joined the newsroom of Notícias Magazine and really got to know the world of journalism.
In September 2021 I took the risk of going to live alone in the Spanish capital and attended a degree in Journalism for a semester at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, under the Erasmus+ project. I had the opportunity to get to know the reality of my field in another context, learn from the best teachers in the area in Spain and work in groups with colleagues of different nationalities. I said goodbye to Portugal with a mix of feelings: adrenaline because I didn’t know what to expect, nostalgia every time I heard the song “Pronúncia do Norte” and enthusiasm, because I knew for sure that I would grow a lot when embarking on this experience. The 20-year-old girl from a small town in Porto and alone in one of the biggest European capitals realized that happiness doesn't have just one address.
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My passion and curiosity for the area of communication did not stop there and led me to the Master in Marketing and Strategy.
Outside of academic life, my main interests are travelling, playing sports and getting involved in the most varied projects, namely volunteer activities, which make me get out of my comfort zone and grow on a personal level.
EXPERIENCE
COPYWRITER
(junho 2023-julho 2023)
Estágio de verão: apoio aos copywriters do cliente Sonae Sierra na publicação de conteúdos para as redes sociais e na escrita de artigos para os blogs dos centros comerciais.
JOURNALIST INTERN
(july 2022-august 2022)
Two-month extracurricular/volunteer internship, where I was part of the team for the weekly magazine Notícias Magazine.
Article writing for JN Tag and Notícias Magazine (website and paper editions).
Conducted interviews for article writing.
COLABORADORA NO DEPARTAMENTO DE COMUNICAÇÃO
(setembro 2020-agosto 2021)
Grupo de Alunos de Ciências da Comunicação.
Divulgação de eventos ou informações relevantes, através das redes sociais.
COLLABORATOR IN THE COMMUNICATION AND BRAND DEPARTMENT
(november 2022-present)
Young Minho Enterprise is a certified Junior Enterprise, which provides Communication and Marketing Consulting services.
ComUM
SPORTS EDITOR
(july 2020-july 2021)
Editing and publishing articles on the website (Wordpress) and social media
Task distribution through weekly schedules
Coordination of a team of around 20 writers
CULTURE WRITER
(july 2020-july 2021)
Writing articles about cultural events
Conducting interviews and reports with artists
SPORTS WRITER
(september 2019-july 2021)
Sports articles writing
Conducting interviews and reports with athletes and clubs of various modalities
EDUCATION
MASTER IN
MARKETING AND STRATEGY
2022-2024
UNIVERSITY OF MINHO
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Member of the Communication and Brand department at Young Minho Enterprise
DEGREE IN
COMMUNICATION SCIENCES
2019-2022
UNIVERSITY OF MINHO
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Specialization in Journalism and Information
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Editor and writer at ComUM - Communication Sciences students' online newspaper
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Collaborator in the Group of Students of Communication Sciences (GACCUM)
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Collaborator in the Communication department- platform with the objective of supporting and integrating students
DEGREE IN JOURNALISM
2021-2022
CARLOS III UNIVERSITY OF MADRID
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Participation in the Erasmus+ project for one semester
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Investigative Journalism; Newspaper Reporting; Organization and Management of Media Enterprises; Enterprise Communication; Good Journalistic Practices
LANGUAGES AND
HUMANITIES COURSE
2017-2019
D.DINIS - SECONDARY SCHOOL
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Exchange in Germany
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Theatre club
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Participation in a theatre play produced in German (Goethe Institut Portugal )
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Participation in school sport
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Volunteering (cleaning beaches in Matosinhos)
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Final average: 18 values
CERTIFICATES
LANGUAGES
​​Certificate in Advanced English (C1)
Cambridge Assessment English
Spanish (C1)
Goethe - Zertifikat (A2)
Goethe-Institut Portugal
Diplôme D'Études en Langue Française (A2)
Secrétariat général Éducation nationale, enseignement supérieur, recherche
CERTIFICATIONS
Rock University
WordPress in practice
Young Minho Enterprise
Internal communication
GACCUM
Journalism
Young Minho Enterprise
Social Media Management
Young Minho Enterprise
Graphic Design: Canva
Young Minho Enterprise
Team Management
GACCUM
Audiovisual and Multimedia
GACCUM
Public Relations and Advertising
School of Economics and Management
Excel I
VOLUNTEERING
YOUTH GROUP (2018-Present)
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Support for the homeless in several social neighborhoods in Porto
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Reconstruction, land clearing and reforestation of areas affected by the 2017 fires (Pampilhosa da Serra)
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Food bank against hunger
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Fundraising
MISSÃO PAÍS (February 2022)
​Missão País is a university volunteer project. For a week, I was in Mogofores, in Anadia, to develop activities and interact with the elderly at the Santa Casa da Misericórdia Day Center in Anadia. Essentially, I learned the power of attentive listening and the importance of giving without expecting to receive.
TESTIMONIALS
Diana Carvalho
Director of ComUM 2020/2021
Mariana is, in a very summarized way, what is required of an excellent professional and one of the people that journalism needs to stay alive and growing. When Mariana arrived at ComUM, she immediately envisioned what she would be like during her entire journey there: a girl full of life, initiative and the will to do and learn every day. She quickly ventured into the Sports section and her ability to learn and take the initiative to always do more led her to the position she occupied the following year: editor. In this position, she proved to be an excellent professional, dedicated, respectful, organized, interested and full of creativity, both bringing countless new ideas and being ready to discuss other points of view and organize new works, whether simple articles, interviews, reports on the ground or simply having to organize a range of new writers who arrived in search of guidance.
Sofia Carneiro
Co-editor at ComUM and classmate
Mariana is a very active, dynamic person with a great desire to get to know her surroundings. As a co-worker, we can expect from her an attentive eye for detail and a lot of creativity along with rigor. She is undoubtedly very hardworking and easily integrates into different teams due to her ability to communicate and help.
Linda Förster
Colleague in group work during Erasmus
I met Mariana because we shared two courses in the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. We worked in group projects and created presentations for our classes. Not only Mariana was super helping, understanding and nice to everyone, but she also worked very hard and was diligent on her tasks. Within our group assignments, we had a productive group atmosphere which was also due to Mariana's ability to work in a team. She managed to involve and support everyone in case of questions and always completed her tasks very reliably. Everyone can call themselves lucky to either have Mariana as a teammate, colleague or a friend.