A journalist specializing in finance and economics, Mara Luquet is the founder and CEO of the first YouTube journalism channel, the MyNews channel, considered by Google to be a global reference for journalism on YouTube.
She is the editor-in-chief of Legado magazine. With 4,000 subscribers, the magazine’s mission is to offer quality and relevant content on the perpetuation of family, environmental, cultural, and financial heritage.
Mara Luquet was a reporter for Gazeta Mercantil and Exame magazine, an editor at Veja magazine and the Folha de São Paulo newspaper, where she created the “FolhaInveste” section and the “FolhaInveste em Ação” simulation, in partnership with Bovespa. She also created the “Eu & Investimentos” section for the Valor Econômico newspaper and ValorInveste Magazine, which she edited until 2005.
She worked as a personal finance columnist for TV Globo, GloboNews, and CBN radio before deciding to found the MyNews channel on YouTube. She is the author of several books on personal finance, such as “O meu guia de finanças pessoais” (My Guide to Personal Finance) and “Infidelidades financeiras” (Financial Infidelities).