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Dec 22, 2017

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Knowledge is a relative value in a certain historical age. Journalism produces knowledge that is obtained from sensory and immediate experience, which is incorporated through use and habit. In historical reconstruction, the news produced in the past can be considered a 'significant trace' – a signal from former times that reaches our days to contribute to the understanding of historical facts. In this study, we analyze texts taken from Brazilian press coverage of an event that took place in Santiago, Chile, on September 11, 1973: the coup d’état that overthrew the constitutionally and democratically elected President Salvador Allende in 1970. The corpus of the research was taken from Veja (issues 263 and 264) and from the Jornal do Brazil (year LXXXIII, issue 158). Although the weekly magazine and the daily paper had specific methodologies and different working conditions at the production stage, the two journalistic are singular pieces of work which mark journalists as historians of the present.

Maria Jandyra Cavalcanti-Cunha
Vitor de Abreu Correa
Dácio Renault Da Silva
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Cavalcanti-Cunha, M. J., Correa, V. de A., & Renault Da Silva, D. (2017). Journalism as a significant trace in the historical reconstruction. Contextos: Estudios De Humanidades Y Ciencias Sociales, (38), 29–44. Retrieved from http://revistas.umce.cl/index.php/contextos/article/view/1332

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