What is Marion Strecker?
[[File:Marion Strecker, Journalist and Photographer.jpg|thumb|Marion Strecker]] '''Marion Strecker''' (b. [[São Paulo]], October 17, 1960) is a [[Brazil]]ian [[journalist]], [[photographer]] and [[business]]person. She is known as one of the [[pioneer]]s of the [[Internet]] [[industry]] in [[South America]]. Since 2011 she has been living in [[San Francisco, California]], and working as an [[editor|Editor-at-Large]] for [[UOL]]. UOL is the major [[content portal]] in Brazil. Since 2010, she has also been a [[columnist]] for [[Folha de S.Paulo]], the largest [[newspaper]] in Brazil. She writes in the [[Market]] section about [[technology]], [[innovation]] and [[behavior]]. Strecker is one of the [[:wikt:founder|founders]] of UOL. She was the Content [[vice-president|VP]] of the [[company]] from 1996 until 2011. UOL soon became a very large [[website]]. It reached about 70% of the [[online]] [[audience]] in Brazil with [[news]], [[entertainment]] and [[service]]s. Before joining the team that founded UOL, Marion Strecker worked at Folha de S.Paulo from 1984 to 1996. She was a [[writer]], an [[art]] [[critic]], editor of the [[culture|cultural section]], planning [[coordinator]], [[reporter]], [[Board of directors|director]] of the [[archive]]s and director of the Folha News Agency. Strecker was one of the [[author]]s of the “Folha Newsroom Manual”. After [[coordination|coordinating]] the [[Digital|Digitization]] of the Newspaper Archives Project in the early 90s, Strecker led a team that created many high tech products. These included like [[audiotext]] services (1993), the newspaper’s full text yearly [[CD-ROM]]s (1994-96) and a system similar to a [[BBS]]. This system gave all the Folha de S.Paulo journalists and [[wikt:foreign|foreign]] [[journalist|correspondents]] access to the archives online, using [[telephone]] lines and [[personal computer|microcomputers]]. Because of this work, Strecker was given the Folha Award on Journalism, Special Category, in 1995. She also led the team which created the first we