{{Short description|Brazilian journalist and writer (born 1954)}}
{{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Mario Sérgio Conti | honorific_suffix = | image = Mario Sergio Conti - Journalist (8596382044).jpg | image_upright = | landscape = | alt = | caption = Mario Sérgio Conti in 2013. | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pronunciation = | birth_name = Mario Sergio Conti | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1954}} | birth_place = São Paulo, São Paulo, {{BRA}} | baptised = | disappeared_date = | disappeared_place = | disappeared_status = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | body_discovered = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | burial_place = | burial_coordinates = | monuments = | other_names = | siglum = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = University of São Paulo | occupation = Journalist<br>Writer<br>Translator<br>TV presenter | years_active = 1977 – present | era = | employer = | organization = | agent = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | height = | television = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | otherparty = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | criminal_charges = | criminal_penalty = | criminal_status = | spouse = | partner = | children = 4 | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | family = | callsign = | awards = | website = | module = | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | signature = | signature_type = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | footnotes = }} '''Mario Sergio Conti''' (born 1954) is a journalist, writer, translator and television presenter. He was editor of ''Veja'', ''Jornal do Brasil'' and ''Piauí''.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2015-09-30 |title=Mario Sergio Conti - revista piauí |url=https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/colaborador/mario-sergio-conti/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241011201444/https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/colaborador/mario-sergio-conti/ |archive-date=October 11, 2024 |access-date=February 28, 2025 |website=revista piauí - _pra quem tem um clique a mais}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Mario Sergio Conti |url=https://www.companhiadasletras.com.br/colaborador/01106/mario-sergio-conti |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250117234608/https://www.companhiadasletras.com.br/colaborador/01106/mario-sergio-conti |archive-date=January 17, 2025 |access-date=February 28, 2025 |website=Companhia das Letras}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=April 6, 2013 |title=Mário Sérgio Conti fala sobre sua tradução de Proust |url=https://gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/geral/noticia/2013/04/mario-sergio-conti-fala-sobre-sua-traducao-de-proust-4098357.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250303161658/https://gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/geral/noticia/2013/04/mario-sergio-conti-fala-sobre-sua-traducao-de-proust-4098357.html |archive-date=March 3, 2025 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Zero Hora |language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Torres |first=Fernanda |author-link=Fernanda Torres |date=September 10, 2013 |title=Mario Sergio |url=https://www.observatoriodaimprensa.com.br/feitos-desfeitas/_ed763_mario_sergio/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250303195413/https://www.observatoriodaimprensa.com.br/feitos-desfeitas/_ed763_mario_sergio/ |archive-date=March 3, 2025 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Observatório da Imprensa |language=pt-br}}</ref> He wrote the book ''Notícias do Planalto: a Imprensa e Fernando Collor''.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Conti |first=Mario Sergio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N7MLIZEMYOUC&dq=mario++sergio+conti&pg=PT5 |title=Notícias do planalto: A imprensa e o poder nos anos Collor |date=2012-08-16 |publisher=Companhia das Letras |isbn=978-85-8086-367-3 |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Moraes |first=Camila |date=April 5, 2016 |title=Conti: "A elite brasileira quer encerrar o ciclo do PT no poder a qualquer custo" |url=https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2016/03/31/politica/1459432288_086212.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241202080316/https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2016/03/31/politica/1459432288_086212.html |archive-date=December 2, 2024 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=El País Brasil |language=pt-br}}</ref> He is currently a columnist for the newspaper ''Folha de S.Paulo'' and presents the television program ''Diálogos'', on ''GloboNews''.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Diálogos com Mario Sergio Conti: assista agora! |url=https://globoplay.globo.com/dialogos-com-mario-sergio-conti/t/67Mbg2CkKh/ |access-date=February 28, 2025 |website=Globoplay |language=pt-br}}</ref>
== Biography ==
=== Early years and education === Mario Sergio Conti was born in São Paulo in 1954.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last= |date=May 30, 2017 |title=Mario Sergio Conti |url=https://www.portaldosjornalistas.com.br/jornalista/mario-sergio-conti/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519193036/https://www.portaldosjornalistas.com.br/jornalista/mario-sergio-conti/ |archive-date=May 19, 2022 |access-date=February 28, 2025 |website=Portal dos Jornalistas |language=pt-BR}}</ref> His paternal grandfather came from a family of Italian fishermen from San Lucido in Calabria, Italy, who emigrated to Brazil after a tsunami destroyed their boats.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Conti |first=Mario |date=November 27, 2011 |title=Meu pai era paulista, meu avô italiano: sou um jornalista brasileiro |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/mariosergioconti/2020/11/meu-pai-era-paulista-meu-avo-italiano-sou-um-jornalista-brasileiro.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001114904/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/mariosergioconti/2020/11/meu-pai-era-paulista-meu-avo-italiano-sou-um-jornalista-brasileiro.shtml |archive-date=October 1, 2022 |access-date=February 28, 2025 |website=Folha de S.Paulo |language=pt-BR}}</ref> His father, Mariano, was born in São Paulo and his mother was of French descent and lived near Osvaldo Cruz Square in the {{Interlanguage link|Paraíso (neighborhood of São Paulo)|lt=Paraíso|pt|Paraíso (bairro de São Paulo)}} neighborhood, also in the city of São Paulo.<ref name=":1" />
Conti graduated in Journalism from the School of Communications and Arts (ECA) of University of São Paulo (USP).<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ecanos nas eleições |url=https://www.agoraeca.com.br/2022/10/27/ecanos-nas-eleicoes/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250116042412/https://www.agoraeca.com.br/2022/10/27/ecanos-nas-eleicoes/ |archive-date=January 16, 2025 |access-date=February 28, 2025 |website=Ágora ECA |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
=== Career === He began his professional life at the ''Folha de S.Paulo'' newspaper in 1977.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |date=December 8, 2015 |title=Mario Sergio Conti estreia coluna semanal |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2015/12/1716250-mario-sergio-conti-estreia-coluna-semanal.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210082647/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2015/12/1716250-mario-sergio-conti-estreia-coluna-semanal.shtml |archive-date=December 10, 2015 |access-date=February 28, 2025 |website=Folha de S.Paulo}}</ref> After his time at the newspaper, he worked for 15 years at ''Veja'' magazine, where he became editor-in-chief. He left the weekly news magazine in 1998.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |last=Miranda |first=André |date=September 29, 2019 |title=Mario Sergio Conti estreia como colunista no Segundo Caderno |url=https://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/mario-sergio-conti-estreia-como-colunista-no-segundo-caderno-10191187 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241228091758/https://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/mario-sergio-conti-estreia-como-colunista-no-segundo-caderno-10191187 |archive-date=December 28, 2024 |access-date=February 28, 2025 |website=O Globo |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Nogueira |first=Paulo |date=February 19, 2016 |title=Perfil: o jornalista da Veja que inventou um pai para o filho de Mírian Dutra. |url=https://www.diariodocentrodomundo.com.br/perfil-o-jornalista-da-veja-que-inventou-um-pai-para-o-filho-de-mirian-dutra-por-paulo-nogueira/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418165755/https://www.diariodocentrodomundo.com.br/perfil-o-jornalista-da-veja-que-inventou-um-pai-para-o-filho-de-mirian-dutra-por-paulo-nogueira/ |archive-date=April 18, 2024 |access-date=February 28, 2025 |website=Diário do Centro do Mundo{{!}} |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Nassif |first=Luis |author-link=Luís Nassif |date=July 2, 2012 |title=O caráter no jornalismo |url=https://jornalggn.com.br/midia/o-carater-no-jornalismo/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250303142336/https://jornalggn.com.br/midia/o-carater-no-jornalismo/ |archive-date=March 3, 2025 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Jornal GGN |language=pt-BR}}</ref> At Veja, he took over as editor-in-chief from journalist José Roberto Guzzo, who had been in charge of the magazine for fifteen years.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sardenberg |first=Carlos |date=May 7, 1991 |title=Guzzo e a 'Veja' |url=https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=030015_11&pesq=%22M%C3%A1rio%20S%C3%A9rgio%20Conti%22&pasta=ano%20199&hf=memoria.bn.gov.br&pagfis=41166 |journal=Jornal do Brasil |volume=101 |issue=129 |pages=26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Netto |first=Ferreira |date=April 30, 1991 |title=Bate-rebate |url=https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=154083_05&pesq=%22M%C3%A1rio%20S%C3%A9rgio%20Conti%22&pasta=ano%20199&hf=memoria.bn.gov.br&pagfis=7540 |journal=Tribuna da Imprensa |volume=40 |issue=12686 |pages=15}}</ref> In 1999, he published the book ''Notícias do Planalto'' by Companhia das Letras, in which he studied the relationship between the Brazilian press and President Fernando Collor de Mello.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Diniz |first=Lilia |date=August 3, 2012 |title=Notícias do Planalto, 13 anos depois |url=https://www.observatoriodaimprensa.com.br/imprensa-em-questao/lt_i_gt_noticias_do_planalto_lt_i_gt_13_anos_depois/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240806034537/https://www.observatoriodaimprensa.com.br/imprensa-em-questao/lt_i_gt_noticias_do_planalto_lt_i_gt_13_anos_depois/ |archive-date=August 6, 2024 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Observatório da Imprensa |language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Xexéo |first=Artur |date=December 1, 1999 |title=O prefeito, o jaburu e o tuiuti |url=https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=030015_11&pesq=%22M%C3%A1rio%20S%C3%A9rgio%20Conti%22&pasta=ano%20199&hf=memoria.bn.gov.br&pagfis=321944 |journal=Jornal do Brasil |volume=109 |issue=237 |pages=40}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cony |first=Carlos |author-link=Carlos Heitor Cony |date=December 7, 1999 |title=Lanterna na popa |url=https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=364568_18&pesq=%22M%C3%A1rio%20S%C3%A9rgio%20Conti%22&pasta=ano%20199&hf=memoria.bn.gov.br&pagfis=123822 |journal=Jornal do Commercio |volume=173 |issue=55 |pages=16}}</ref> In {{Interlanguage link|42.º Prêmio Jabuti|lt=2000|pt|42.º Prêmio Jabuti}}, the book won the Jabuti prize in the reportage category.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Premiados do Ano |url=https://www.premiojabuti.com.br/jabuti/premiados-por-edicao/premiacao/?ano=2000 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812045605/https://www.premiojabuti.com.br/jabuti/premiados-por-edicao/premiacao/?ano=2000 |archive-date=August 12, 2024 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Prêmio Jabuti}}</ref>
After the book was published, in the early 2000s, he was one of the journalists on the ''{{Interlanguage link|NoMínimo|lt=NoMínimo|pt|NoMínimo }}'' website, alongside names such as Zuenir Ventura and Ivan Lessa.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Azevedo |first=Reinaldo |author-link=Reinaldo Azevedo |date=June 30, 2007 |title=O fechamento do site NoMínimo |url=https://veja.abril.com.br/coluna/reinaldo/o-fechamento-do-site-nominimo |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250303143048/https://veja.abril.com.br/coluna/reinaldo/o-fechamento-do-site-nominimo |archive-date=March 3, 2025 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Veja |language=pt-BR}}</ref> At Rádio Bandeirantes he worked as the station's correspondent in Paris.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Conti |first=Mario Sergio |date=2012-12-01 |title=Rise of the Image-Makers |url=https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii78/articles/mario-sergio-conti-rise-of-the-image-makers |journal=New Left Review |issue=78 |pages=81–97 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241223142616/https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii78/articles/mario-sergio-conti-rise-of-the-image-makers |archive-date=December 23, 2024}}</ref> He returned to Brazil and for a short time was editor-in-chief of the Rio de Janeiro newspaper ''Jornal do Brasil''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Belém |first=Euler de França |date=June 28, 2014 |title=Por que não parar o massacre contra Mario Sergio Conti? |url=https://www.jornalopcao.com.br/colunas-e-blogs/imprensa/por-que-nao-parar-o-massacre-contra-mario-sergio-conti-8492/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240718175929/https://www.jornalopcao.com.br/colunas-e-blogs/imprensa/por-que-nao-parar-o-massacre-contra-mario-sergio-conti-8492/ |archive-date=July 18, 2024 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Jornal Opção |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
In 2006, Mario alongside João Moreira Salles, Walter Salles, {{Interlanguage link|Dorrit Harazim|lt=Dorrit Harazim|pt|Dorrit Harazim}} and {{Interlanguage link|Marcos Sá Corrêa|lt=Marcos Sá Corrêa|pt|Marcos Sá Corrêa }}, founded ''piauí'' magazine, inspired by ''The New Yorker'' magazine, with the aim of creating a magazine with traces of the new journalism.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Colombo |first=Sylvia |date=October 9, 2006 |title=Revista "Piauí" chega ao mercado - 09/10/2006 |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/ilustrad/fq0910200610.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506092636/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/ilustrad/fq0910200610.htm |archive-date=May 6, 2021 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Folha de S.Paulo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Diniz |first=Lilia |date=October 3, 2023 |title=piauí, uma revista sem gravata |url=https://www.observatoriodaimprensa.com.br/educacao-e-cidadania/caderno-da-cidadania/piaui_uma_revista_sem_gravata/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220420013338/https://www.observatoriodaimprensa.com.br/educacao-e-cidadania/caderno-da-cidadania/piaui_uma_revista_sem_gravata/ |archive-date=April 20, 2022 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Observatório da Imprensa |language=pt-br}}</ref> In 2011, he left the magazine (becoming an occasional contributor) to take over the ''Roda Viva'' interview program on TV Cultura, replacing Marília Gabriela.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=August 17, 2011 |title=Jornalista Mario Sergio Conti é novo apresentador do "Roda Viva" |url=https://feeds.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/poder/po1708201112.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250303150327/https://feeds.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/poder/po1708201112.htm |archive-date=March 3, 2025 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Folha de S. Paulo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Nery |first=José |date=August 15, 2011 |title=Mário Sergio Conti é apontado para substituir Marília Gabriela no "Roda Viva" |url=https://tvefamosos.uol.com.br/colunas/flavio-ricco/2011/08/15/mario-sergio-conti-e-apontado-para-substituir-mariia-gabriela-no-roda-viva.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250303150705/https://tvefamosos.uol.com.br/colunas/flavio-ricco/2011/08/15/mario-sergio-conti-e-apontado-para-substituir-mariia-gabriela-no-roda-viva.htm |archive-date=March 3, 2025 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Universo Online |language=pt-br}}</ref> During his time at the helm of the program, he interviewed names such as João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Tom Zé, Roberto Freire, Domenico De Masi, among others.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jimenez |first=Keila |date=August 3, 2013 |title=Poder - Mario Sergio Conti deixará o "Roda Viva" |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/poder/122074-mario-sergio-conti-deixara-o-quotroda-vivaquot.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250303151618/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/paywall/login.shtml?https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/poder/122074-mario-sergio-conti-deixara-o-quotroda-vivaquot.shtml |archive-date=March 3, 2025 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Folha de S. Paulo}}</ref>
According to journalist and writer Elio Gaspari, in his column in the ''Folha de S. Paulo'' newspaper, Conti's premature dismissal – which took place in 2013 – was decided by Marcos Mendonça, who was close to the then governor of São Paulo, Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB) to manage the Padre Anchieta Foundation, responsible for controlling TV Cultura.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 13, 2013 |title=Marcos Mendonça é o novo presidente da TV Cultura |url=https://valor.globo.com/eu-e/noticia/2013/05/13/marcos-mendonca-e-o-novo-presidente-da-tv-cultura.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003203418/https://valor.globo.com/eu-e/noticia/2013/05/13/marcos-mendonca-e-o-novo-presidente-da-tv-cultura.ghtml |archive-date=October 3, 2023 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Valor Econômico |language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Arantes |first=Silvana |date=June 17, 2013 |title=Marcos Mendonça assume direção da TV Cultura |url=https://m.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2013/06/1296014-marcos-mendonca-assume-direcao-da-tv-cultura.shtml?cmpid=menutopo |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250303152655/https://m.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2013/06/1296014-marcos-mendonca-assume-direcao-da-tv-cultura.shtml |archive-date=March 3, 2025 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Folha de S. Paulo}}</ref> Conti had invited former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (PSDB) for an interview, when Mendonça disinvited the ''tucano''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Attuch |first=Leonardo |date=August 4, 2013 |title=Convite a FHC motivou troca no Roda Viva |url=https://www.brasil247.com/midia/convite-a-fhc-motivou-troca-no-roda-viva |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241210092004/https://www.brasil247.com/midia/convite-a-fhc-motivou-troca-no-roda-viva |archive-date=December 10, 2024 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Brasil 247 |language=pt-br}}</ref> When he found out, Conti called Cardoso again and kept the interview that aired.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nogueira |first=Paulo |date=August 4, 2013 |title=A bizarra saída de Conti do Roda Viva |url=https://www.diariodocentrodomundo.com.br/a-bizarra-saida-de-conti-do-roda-viva/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728101832/https://www.diariodocentrodomundo.com.br/a-bizarra-saida-de-conti-do-roda-viva/ |archive-date=July 28, 2014 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Diário do Centro do Mundo |language=pt-BR}}</ref> To replace him, Mendonça appointed journalist Augusto Nunes, who had presented the program in the 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Abrantes |first=Silvana |date=August 26, 2013 |title=Augusto Nunes retorna ao 'Roda Viva' e propõe mudar sua fórmula |url=https://f5.folha.uol.com.br/televisao/2013/08/1332060-augusto-nunes-retorna-ao-roda-viva-e-propoe-mudar-sua-formula.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704081538/https://f5.folha.uol.com.br/televisao/2013/08/1332060-augusto-nunes-retorna-ao-roda-viva-e-propoe-mudar-sua-formula.shtml |archive-date=July 4, 2022 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Folha de S. Paulo |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
In September 2013, he became a columnist for the second section of the Rio newspaper ''O Globo''.<ref name=":7" /> The following year, he made a gaffe that was published in the ''Folha de S. Paulo'' newspaper and in ''O Globo''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 19, 2014 |title=Texto de colunista gera saia-justa na Folha e no Globo |url=https://www.cartacapital.com.br/blogs/midiatico/texto-de-colunista-gera-saia-justa-na-folha-e-no-globo-223/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250303154845/https://www.cartacapital.com.br/blogs/midiatico/texto-de-colunista-gera-saia-justa-na-folha-e-no-globo-223/ |archive-date=March 3, 2025 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=CartaCapital |language=pt-BR}}</ref> On a flight between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Conti met Vladimir Palomo, a lookalike of the then coach of the Brazilian national football team, Luiz Felipe Scolari.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Amorim |first1=Silvia |last2=Farah |first2=Tatiana |date=June 19, 2014 |title=Colunista do GLOBO confunde sósia com Felipão |url=https://oglobo.globo.com/esportes/copa-2014/colunista-do-globo-confunde-sosia-com-felipao-12933884 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220924033248/https://oglobo.globo.com/esportes/copa-2014/colunista-do-globo-confunde-sosia-com-felipao-12933884 |archive-date=September 24, 2022 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=O Globo |language=pt-BR}}</ref> The interview was published as an exclusive on the newspapers' digital portals.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 19, 2024 |title=Mario Sergio Conti: "Pensei realmente que era o Scolari" |url=https://gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/esportes/copa-2014/noticia/2014/06/Mario-Sergio-Conti-Pensei-realmente-que-era-o-Scolari-4530859.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241210075024/https://gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/esportes/copa-2014/noticia/2014/06/Mario-Sergio-Conti-Pensei-realmente-que-era-o-Scolari-4530859.html |archive-date=December 10, 2024 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Zero Hora |language=pt}}</ref> Shortly afterwards, the editors issued an errata after it was discovered that the interview had been given by a look-alike.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brasil |first=Felipe |author-link=Felipe Moura Brasil |date=June 19, 2024 |title=O Conti do Vigário – Entrevista com "falso" Felipão gera "Erramos" no Globo e na Folha. Mario Sergio Conti, catador de errinhos no livro "Dirceu", comeu barriga de novo! |url=https://veja.abril.com.br/coluna/felipe-moura-brasil/o-conti-do-vigario-8211-entrevista-com-8220-falso-8221-felipao-gera-8220-erramos-8221-no-globo-e-na-folha-mario-sergio-conti-catador-de-errinhos-no-livro-8220-dirceu-8221-comeu-barriga-de-novo |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523174357/https://veja.abril.com.br/coluna/felipe-moura-brasil/o-conti-do-vigario-8211-entrevista-com-8220-falso-8221-felipao-gera-8220-erramos-8221-no-globo-e-na-folha-mario-sergio-conti-catador-de-errinhos-no-livro-8220-dirceu-8221-comeu-barriga-de-novo |archive-date=May 23, 2022 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Veja |language=pt-BR}}</ref> Also in 2014, he debuted the interview program ''Diálogos'', aired on GloboNews, the subscription TV channel of the Globo group, where he interviews politicians, artists and intellectuals.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=Lichote |first=Leonardo |date=April 10, 2014 |title=Mario Sergio Conti estreia seus 'Diálogos' na Globonews entrevistando Cesare Battisti |url=https://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/mario-sergio-conti-estreia-seus-dialogos-na-globonews-entrevistando-cesare-battisti-12146424 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226085756/https://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/mario-sergio-conti-estreia-seus-dialogos-na-globonews-entrevistando-cesare-battisti-12146424 |archive-date=February 26, 2017 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=O Globo |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Santiago |first=Anna |date=October 18, 2024 |title=Fernanda Torres fala sobre interpretar Eunice Paiva em 'Ainda estou aqui' |url=https://oglobo.globo.com/play/noticia/2024/10/18/fernanda-torres-fala-sobre-interpretar-eunice-paiva-em-ainda-estou-aqui.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241121092232/https://oglobo.globo.com/play/noticia/2024/10/18/fernanda-torres-fala-sobre-interpretar-eunice-paiva-em-ainda-estou-aqui.ghtml |archive-date=November 21, 2024 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=O Globo |language=pt-br}}</ref> The first interviewee was Cesare Battisti, a former member of the Armed Proletarians for Communism (PAC), a far-left militant group that committed illegal acts in Italy, who was living in Brazil and was denied extradition by then president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).<ref name=":8" /> In 2024, the program celebrated ten years on the air.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cantore |first=Jacqueline |date=April 4, 2024 |title=Onde ver filme da entrevista com príncipe Andrew que chocou o Reino Unido |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2024/04/onde-ver-filme-da-entrevista-com-principe-andrew-que-chocou-o-reino-unido.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250129024641/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2024/04/onde-ver-filme-da-entrevista-com-principe-andrew-que-chocou-o-reino-unido.shtml |archive-date=January 29, 2025 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Folha de S.Paulo |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
In 2015, he got a weekly column in ''Folha de S. Paulo''.<ref name=":6" /> In 2022, Companhia das Letras published his translation of the first volume of Marcel Proust's ''In Search of Lost Time''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Werneck |first=Gustavo |date=November 18, 2021 |title=Obra-prima de Proust, 'Em busca do tempo perdido' ganha novas traduções |url=https://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/pensar/2022/11/18/interna_pensar,1422439/obra-prima-de-proust-em-busca-do-tempo-perdido-ganha-novas-traducoes.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521095641/https://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/pensar/2022/11/18/interna_pensar,1422439/obra-prima-de-proust-em-busca-do-tempo-perdido-ganha-novas-traducoes.shtml |archive-date=May 21, 2024 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Estado de Minas |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gois |first=Ancelmo |date=May 21, 2022 |title=O que as editoras estão planejando para celebrar o autor Marcel Proust |url=https://blogs.oglobo.globo.com/ancelmo/post/o-que-editoras-estao-planejando-para-celebrar-o-autor-marcel-proust.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808225844/https://blogs.oglobo.globo.com/ancelmo/post/o-que-editoras-estao-planejando-para-celebrar-o-autor-marcel-proust.html |archive-date=August 8, 2022 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=O Globo |language=pt-br}}</ref>
== Personal life == [[File:Entrevista_(17068786799).jpg|thumb|Conti (left) with politician Jaques Wagner in the ''Diálogos'' program.]] Of Italian and French descent, he is the father of four children: filmmaker Carol,<ref name=":1" /> editor André,<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=January 22, 2025 |title=Escândalo envolve dono da Editora Todavia, André Conti, a escritora Vanessa Barbara e outros escritores |url=https://www.jornalopcao.com.br/ultimas-noticias/escandalo-envolve-dono-da-editora-todavia-andre-conti-a-escritora-vanessa-barbara-e-outros-escritores-673481/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250124214939/https://www.jornalopcao.com.br/ultimas-noticias/escandalo-envolve-dono-da-editora-todavia-andre-conti-a-escritora-vanessa-barbara-e-outros-escritores-673481/ |archive-date=January 24, 2025 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Jornal Opção |language=pt-BR}}</ref> veterinarian Luisa<ref name=":1" /> and Lina, who studied sociology and philosophy in Bologna, Italy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lina Conti |url=https://mt.fbk.eu/author/lvarellaconti/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241008210345/https://mt.fbk.eu/author/lvarellaconti/ |archive-date=October 8, 2024 |access-date=March 3, 2024 |website=Machine Translation Unit}}</ref>
=== Religious views === In May 2024, he declared himself an atheist in his ''Folha'' column, stating that “the idea of God persists because in the consumer society billions do not consume. Religions fulfill the function of giving imaginary relief to those who don't have it in real, material life.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Conti |first=Mário |date=May 24, 2024 |title=Defender os ateus é defender a razão |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/mariosergioconti/2024/05/defender-os-ateus-e-defender-a-razao.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250211011231/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/mariosergioconti/2024/05/defender-os-ateus-e-defender-a-razao.shtml |archive-date=February 11, 2025 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Folha de S.Paulo |language=pt-BR}}</ref> On Easter 2021, he had already released a provocative text in which he noted: “Blessed are those who believe in Christ as children believe in the Easter bunny: as a joke, from time to time, until the age of seven.”<ref>{{Cite web |last=Conti |first=Mário |date=April 2, 2021 |title=Opinião - Mario Sergio Conti: Felizes os que acreditam em Cristo como as crianças no coelhinho da Páscoa |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/mariosergioconti/2021/04/felizes-os-que-acreditam-em-cristo-como-as-criancas-no-coelhinho-da-pascoa.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230228040625/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/mariosergioconti/2021/04/felizes-os-que-acreditam-em-cristo-como-as-criancas-no-coelhinho-da-pascoa.shtml |archive-date=February 28, 2023 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=Folha de S.Paulo |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
== Works ==
=== Books ===
* ''Notícias do Planalto: a imprensa e Fernando Collor''. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1999.<ref name=":4" /> * ''Eles Foram para Petrópolis: uma Correspondência Virtual na Virada do Século'' (with Ivan Lessa). São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barile |first=João |date=May 17, 2009 |title=A correspondência virtual de Mario Conti e Ivan Lessa |url=https://www.otempo.com.br/entretenimento/magazine/a-correspondencia-virtual-de-mario-conti-e-ivan-lessa-1.273247 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250303164741/https://www.otempo.com.br/entretenimento/magazine/a-correspondencia-virtual-de-mario-conti-e-ivan-lessa-1.273247 |archive-date=March 3, 2025 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=O Tempo |language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Lessa |first=Ivan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gpcqAQAAIAAJ |title=Eles foram para Petrópolis: uma correspondência virtual na virada do século |date=2009 |publisher=Companhia das Letras |isbn=978-85-359-1428-3 |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
=== Translation ===
* ''In Search of Lost Time'' by Marcel Proust. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2022.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Proust |first=Marcel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eIGUEAAAQBAJ |title=Para o lado de Swann: À procura do tempo perdido, vol. 1 |date=2022-12-06 |publisher=Companhia das Letras |isbn=978-65-5782-741-3 |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
== References ==
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