Abstract
Journalism and politics have their ties often examined from a prestige press perspective. Little or nothing is discussed about the political dimension of popular journalism in Brazil.
To make this debate more consistent, this paper aims to develop: a) a theoretical investment on the adequacy of the category “tabloid” and in the process of “tabloidization” before the Brazilian media scene; b) an analysis of economic and competitive issues inherent to popular journalism in Brazil; c) a proposal of a research agenda for the development of a methodological and epistemological model to identify and distinguish tabloid and quality papers; and finally d) a brief discussion on space occupied by the political section before others in Brazilian popular news coverage.
Keywords:
media and politics; political economy of journalism; popular journalism; tabloidization