A evolução editorial do Jornal de Notícias e a inclusão de elementos de jornalismo popular

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Helena
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/110514
• topic: Ciências da comunicação; Communication sciences

Jornal de Notícias was a political newspaper launched in Oporto in 1888, when the city began a period of growth and urban improvements. Despite being a project of the Regenerator Party, Notícias soon adopted a popular and easy style directed to a wider audience, unlikely the traditional political and literary press that was mostly read by the political and social elites. The facts that are the life of the urban centers progressively became part of the newsfeed: small passionate dramas, various disasters that ravaged the city, crime and other events such as fires, floods, facts that gained prominent place in Jornal de Noticias agenda. In this initial period, the newspaper, despite its political roots, developed a new news discourse that may be seen as modern in comparison to the conservatism of the Portuguese newspapers and particularly the Oporto press that kept the elitist editorial perspective either ideological or publicist. The adoption of a high cultural model against the idea of low culture (Zelizer, 1999) by journalists and owners of newspapers stems from the idea that journalism was a literary form of expression or an ideological exercise. In Portugal, the last decade of the 19th century and in the beginning of the 20th, was a period of transformations in political newspapers that gradually followed the trend of the international popular press. The covers adopted headlines with a variety of subjects, illustrations and photographs or other attractive matters (Campbell, 2001). This new popular approach attracted a wider audience. Articles with "human interest" reached the first page, like big events. The covers were more attractive drawing the attention of new readers. Such was also the case of Jornal de Notícias that from its foundation to the beginning of the next century evolved from the political model to an example of popular press, with a somewhat sensationalist narrative for the events. Fait-divers were part of the history of this newspaper and great impact subjects like suicides, were a recurring theme. The narratives of dramatic events adopted a strong emotional charge, sometimes with a morbid tone, which broke with the austere style of Oportos traditional journalism. This pattern of dramatization was also visible in the everyday news. The protagonists of the events were at times portrayed as heroes of adventure and stories full of detail were built, often treated continuously in multiple numbers, somehow replicating the Pulitzers "follow up" guideline. The aim of this paper is to analyze the forms of popular tabloid journalism in Jornal de Notícias, in its initial period, through the narrative formats, thematic and agenda, taking into account the analysis frame set out by the authors of reference in this theme.