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David de Almeida Silva
Journalist with more than ten years of experience across newsrooms, agencies and corporate communications. I covered breaking news at iBahia, part of Rede Bahia, Globo's affiliate in Bahia, led content and SEO teams at an agency, and now work in communications and digital innovation at Embasa, Bahia's water and sanitation utility. On the side, I run Didático, a digital news outlet in Salvador, and build my own projects in WordPress, geospatial data and games.
Salvador, Brazil · open to remote work
Experience
- currentEditorial and technical leadDidático
- 2023 – nowCommunications and Digital InnovationEmbasa
- 2020 – 2023Copywriter and SEO strategistAgência Forrest
- 2015 – 2019JournalistiBahia (Rede Bahia)
- 2017Host and scriptwriterTV Câmara Salvador
Education
- 2025 – 2026Graduate specialization in Communication and Artificial IntelligencePUC Minas
- 2023UX and UI courseUniversity of Michigan
- 2017 – 2020Bachelor's in JournalismFaculdade Dois de Julho
Skills
- Communication
- Reporting, editing, editorial planning, scripts for radio, TV and podcasts, copywriting, press relations, team leadership
- Digital
- SEO, analytics, social media, WordPress and PHP, JavaScript, QGIS, UX/UI, AI in communication
- Languages
- Native Portuguese, fluent English
Projects
Address
- current Didático A digital news outlet covering Salvador and Bahia, built around its own format: the card, which condenses each story into a quick-reading visual summary for the website and Instagram. 2.1K monthly page views Journalism · Communication
- 2023 – atual Communications and digital innovation at Embasa At Bahia's state water and sanitation company, I lead internal communication and digital innovation projects, from app development to training workshops and strategic presentations for the executive board. Communication
- 2015 – 2019 Journalist at iBahia Daily reporting for one of Bahia's largest news sites, part of the Rede Bahia group, Globo's affiliate in the state, focused on breaking news, technology and event coverage, including hosting the Campus Party Bahia 2018 livestreams. Journalism
- 2026 Slingparking An original mobile game where the player is the new valet at a parking lot that parks cars with a slingshot. Concept, hand-drawn art and development. Coming soon to Google Play. Coming soon on Google Play Games · Development
- 2026 Contact prospecting plugin A WordPress plugin that prospects press and business contacts: from a search term, it scrapes websites through the Google API, uses DeepSeek to broaden the search and summarize each organization, and returns the emails it finds, with validity checks. Development · AI · Communication
- 2020 – 2023 Copywriting and SEO at Agência Forrest I led the agency's content team serving B2B and B2C clients, with SEO-driven strategies, scripts for podcasts and radio, and on-camera work in client videos. Communication
- 2017 Game Nation, on TV Câmara Salvador I hosted and wrote Game Nation, a show about the world of video games, featuring interviews with Brazilian and international guests. Journalism · Games
- 2026 Georeferenced sewer network database I turned a CAD file of a Salvador sewer network into a georeferenced database of more than 5,000 manholes, ready for analysis in QGIS. Data & maps
- 2026 Didático publishing plugin A WordPress plugin built for Didático that connects the website to Instagram and reduces the newsroom's manual work in the publishing workflow. Development
- 2026 Didático website theme A WordPress theme with a newspaper visual language, responsive layout and SEO-minded architecture. Development
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