Radio journalism in Brazil: a journalism without journalists

Abstract

Brazil is rich in radio stations, but poor in radiojournalistic productions. Without enough journalists and publicitarian support, they open themselves to the contents preproduced by the sources of information. This stimulates the surge of radio press agency of sources. The massif usage of those sources journalistic products allows the knowledge of some issues and provides public visibility to certain social actors, but transforms the radio in a hostage of the sources contents, specially those better structured. Consequence: the change of the historical national radiojournalism standard.