Economic news in Brazil: from coffee beans to real time

Abstract

This article builds up the history of the Brazilian economic new since its start, in the turning of the 19th to the 20th centuries up to 2011, when 24-hour-real-time news services impose structural changes to the way economic journalism is carried out in the country. The work goes through the key boost provided by the military, when ruling the country, who censured political information, but were much more open to economic contents.