This article analyzes Rui Barbosa participation in the newspaper A Imprensa, published in Rio de Janeiro, between 1898 and 1901. It analyses also the relationship established between Rui Barbosa and the laywer Edmundo Bittencourt, who was the owner of the famous Correio da Manhã, which appeared in 1901. These men shared the same political ideals, but they had different ways to express them and antagonists strategies to reach and to increase the number of readers. Although these newspapers diffuse the same principles, like the revision of the Constitution, they are conceived as independent projects.
press; policy; readers; Republic; Rio de Janeiro.