History of Brazilian Journalism

From Print to Digital
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-75580-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 225 mm x 144 mm, Gewicht: 280 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Communication and Society

This book constitutes a first-of-its-kind synthesis of the development of journalism in Brazil, considering both its mediations with national social and political life and its relationships of influence and dependence on international economic centers. 

The author suggests that Brazilian journalism has so far known four phases: doctrinal political journalism, narrative literary journalism, industrial news journalism, and multimedia infotainment journalism. Devoting a chapter to each phase, Daros presents a critical map of the genesis and metamorphosis of journalistic practices in the country. The analysis goes beyond a mere study of national history to mark the points of connection between the Brazilian case and other geographic spaces, showing how the profession moved between two Western paradigms and was continually shaped by the economic, political, and cultural context from which it emerged and was inserted. The final part of the book reflects critically on the state of Brazilian journalism today, considering the new social media culture, the increasing focus on costs over quality of news products, and the failed social responsibility of the profession to inform national public opinion. 

This study is an important touchstone for researchers of Brazilian and Latin American journalism and those interested in the ways in which the media shapes and is shaped by a country’s socio-political climate.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daros, Otavio

Daros, Otávio

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

A critical theory of the history of journalism

Framework for the study of the Brazilian case

Chapter 2: Political doctrinaire journalism

A colony without periodical press

The first journal and exile journalism

Gazettes and the printing monopoly

Pasquinade after the end of censorship

Emergence of daily newspapers

Chapter 3: Informative literary journalism

Decline of the partisan and community press

Renewal of journalism through literary magazines

Expansion of the mainstream across the country

Birth of media chains and their barons

Rise of modern journalism amid authoritarianism

Chapter 4: Industrial news journalism

The North American influence on Brazilian journalism

Mainstream and alternative press in the Military Dictatorship

Media conglomerates and the news industry

Establishment and predominance of broadcasting journalism

Specialization and professionalization of newsrooms

Chapter 3: Multimedia content journalism

Popular journalism and the new middle class

The digitization of the press and news websites

All-news broadcasting and media convergence

Professional and amateur in the context of crisis

Metamorphosis of contemporary journalism

Chapter 6: Closing remarks

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Otávio Daros is Postdoctoral Researcher and Collaborating Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Communication at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. He is the author of the book Writing Journalism History: The Press and Academia in Brazil, a historiography of knowledge production in journalism. His articles have been published in journals such as Communication Theory and Media, Culture & Society.