| Evaristo Costa | |
| Birth Name: | Evaristo de Oliveira Costa Merigo |
| Birth Date: | 30 September 1976 |
| Birth Place: | São José dos Campos (SP), Brazil |
| Education: | Universidade Braz Cubas |
| Occupation: | Journalist and Anchor |
| Years Active: | 1995 - present |
| Credits: | Jornal Hoje anchor (2014 - 17) CNN Séries Originais presenter (2020 - present) |
Evaristo de Oliveira Costa Merigo, commonly known as Evaristo Costa (born September 30, 1976, in São José dos Campos) is a Brazilian journalist.[1]
He graduated in Social Communication at Universidade Braz Cubas in Mogi das Cruzes. Costa started working as a journalist in 1995, when he was still in college and worked in a TV producing studio during two years, then moving to TV Vanguarda, initially as a producer and then working as reporter and presenter. In September 1999, he was transferred to TV Globo, where he was a reporter for the TV show Mais Você, hosted by Ana Maria Braga.
In 2001, Costa moved to SPTV, a São Paulo local news program. Then he presented the weather forecast of Globo Rural, SPTV, Bom Dia Brasil and Jornal Nacional until 2 February 2004, when Costa became co-host of the midday news program Jornal Hoje with Sandra Annenberg[2]
In February 2015 Costa briefly joined the Fantástico team, replacing Tadeu Schmidt during the holidays.[3]
At the end of 2017, he had resigned his 14-year contract from Rede Globo to move to United Kingdom, where he currently lives in Cambridge.[4]
He is currently hired by CNN Brazil.[5]