[7] Founded by journalist Irineu Marinho, owner of A Noite, it was originally intended as a morning daily to extend the newspaper interests of the company.

In the same year, O Globo was also leading the audience ranking for print media-owned websites, achieving a peak of more than 40 million unique visitors in October.

[1] It follows a strongly liberal line in economic terms, having been a stubborn oppositionist to the progressive governments of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff.

[4] In 1994, just a day before the premiere in Brazil of the British documentary Beyond Citizen Kane, at the Rio de Janeiro Modern Art Museum, the Military Police confiscated the copy of the film, obeying a court warrant in response to a suit filed by Globo.

The film explored the establishment of Rede Globo, the largest television broadcaster in the country, and its ties to the military dictatorship of the period.