Chat and book launch: 'Challenging news: Brazilian journalism yesterday and today'

Next Wednesday, September 20, at 6 p.m., the historian, scholar of the Brazilian press, and researcher from FGV’s School of Social Sciences (CPDOC), Professor Alzira Alves de Abreu, will launch the book ‘Desafios da notícia: o jornalismo brasileiro ontem e hoje’ [Challenging news: Brazilian journalism yesterday and today], published by FGV Press.

The book compiles 12 papers on journalism published in History and Social Sciences seminars and conferences between 1996 and 2016. The publication addresses different themes that come together to unveil some of the paths taken by the field of journalism in the country, particularly during the military regime and the democratization period, amidst widespread technical and professional changes in newsrooms.

For example, the book addresses the creation of Economy editorials – arising as a context of resistance amid the censorship imposed on political news –, as well as different steps of print journalism production and the innovation of electronic journalism, which demanded a new type of journalists familiarized with new formats and languages.

With the objectivity of journalistic text and the rigor of academic study, the analyses compiled in the book – in some cases supported by testimonials collected in interviews with national press personalities – provide material of great value to students and professionals.

Before the launch, which will be held at FGV Bookstore, located on the ground floor of FGV’s main office (Praia de Botafogo, 190, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro), FGV Press will organize a Q&A session with the author about the stories of the Brazilian press, at 4 p.m. The meeting will be attended by Professor Marieta de Moraes Ferreira, responsible for the opening ceremony, and professor Joëlle Rouchou, who will introduce some of the great work of professor Abreu, and will also take place at FGV, in Auditorium 537, without the need for prior registration.