TV news and political change in Brazil The impact of democratization on TV Globo's journalism.

Autor: Porto, Mauro
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Zdroj: Journalism; Aug2007, Vol. 8 Issue 4, p363-384, 21p
Abstrakt: The article analyzes the changes that since the mid-1990s have transformed journalistic practices in Brazil's most powerful media institution. More especially, the aim is to investigate the transformation of TV Globo's News Division and situate this process in relation to the democratization of Brazilian politics and society. Based on content analysis of Jornal Nacional, TV Globo's main newscast, and on in-depth interviews with four senior journalists of the network, the article stresses how the new conditions brought by political and social democratization help explain these changes. In particular, the deepening of democracy in Brazil created new constraints that forced TV Globo to overcome a tradition of more explicit political biases and to minimize the initial trend toward tabloidization with an increase of hard news coverage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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