Meet Prize-Winning Author and Podcaster Chico Felitti, in this Domestika Diary

Discover the Brazilian writer and journalist creative work, daily rituals and the place where he creates his stories

Chico Felitti (@chicofelitti) is a writer, journalist, reporter and podcaster. He has spent ten years as a journalist at the Folha de São Paulo newspaper (which has the biggest circulation in Brazil) and won some of the country’s top journalism awards, including the Comunique-se, for Brazil’s Best Written Journalism, and the Petrobras Journalism Trophy.

He was also a Jabuti 2020 finalist for his biography Ricardo e Vânia, which reconstructs the life of a street artist known as Fofão da Augusta. He creates and narrates the narrative podcasts Desconhecido, Além do Meme and Gente!, and has written feature film scripts and TV scripts for TV Globo.

This Domestika Diary shares Chico’s creative rituals.

Much more than a meme

Everyone in Brazil has seen Chico’s Grávida de Taubaté and Bambola Star memes, as well as his famous greeting “Bom dia Brasil! Boa tarde, Italia!” and watched videos starring the “high-school dropouts”. Most have also cried with laughter at the comic performances by Carreta Furacão.

Chico also created the Além do meme (Much more than a Meme) podcast. This investigative podcast explores the untold stories of people whose lives were changed (for better or worse) by going viral. It combines entertainment and journalism and is one of Brazil’s top 15 most listened to podcasts.

Love Chico Felitti’s creative routine? To find out more about narrative podcasting, don’t miss his online course, coming soon on Domestika...

English version by @studiogaunt

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