He’s written about topics ranging from men’s health to politics and the environment. In 2006, his television story on sugarcane plantations and their effect on the environment was awarded the VI Prêmio CPFL de Imprensa, a prize for energy-based journalism in the public interest. In 2009 he became a TV News reporter and was also assigned as Editor-In-Chief of Morning News at Rede Record in Bauru. After an interlude in which Hidalgo worked as a press agent, he returned to freelance reporting and editing in 2014. He followed one of the candidates for the Brazilian presidency in mid-2014, an experience that showed him how far there still is to go in terms of free expression and countering censorship in Brazil.