A violência na mídia : um estudo de caso sobre a cobertura da criminalidade pela imprensa no RS

Abstract

This dissertation analysis the deep transformation on journalistic covering about violent criminality since the middle of the 80´s, when the main newspapers on Brazil started to extend its contents, to diversify sources and to qualify stories. After Brazil´s redemocratization, that concurs with the explosion of violent criminality in the country, isolated cases that used to homogenize media´s attention get out of the press focus and are replaced by contextualized stories on public security and security politics. To analise how and why these transformations have occurred on Zero Hora´s covering and what are its implications in the journalists professional context and in the routine of the editorial office, interviews have been made with journalists that act or have acted in ZH Police section. The answers, that do not intend to be definitive, have been reached analyzing the speech of those professionals, enlightened by Bourdieu´s teorical framework. Beyond the answers, elements that suggest a new stage of the journalistic covering have been identified in the agenda of repressive politics to fight violent criminality nowadays.