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In the last three decades, there has been a very prevalent approach in the social studies of religion towards the more conservative aspects of Christian segments, especially the evangelical Pentecostals. This article addresses the opposite side of this reality, namely: the universe of Christians considered progressive, with left-wing political positions, encompassing not only Catholics and evangelicals, but also Kardecist Spiritists, given the centrality, in this segment, of the devotion to Jesus Christ and the precept of Christian charity. For the elaboration of the article, a systematized consultation was made in pertinent bibliographic references, as well as a survey and analysis of news in reliable sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Portuguese news media assumed a crucial role in informing the population, striving to develop knowledge about the disease, and promoting preventive behaviours to reduce transmission. To do so, they relied mainly on experts. While official interlocutors were still present in journalistic texts, scholars and physicians gained significant visibility. This article analyses how specialised sources contribute to news content in the Portuguese press. It presents findings from a study on the coverage of COVID-19. This study examines editions of the Portuguese newspapers Público and Jornal de Notícias during the state of emergency periods from March to May 2020, November to December 2020, and January to February 2021. The corpus of analysis includes 2,933 news texts and 6,350 sources: during the first phase of the national emergency, 1,850 texts were published, citing 4,048 sources; in the second phase, 457 texts were published, citing 857 sources; finally, during the third phase, 626 texts were published, citing 1,445 sources. The content analysis findings highlight the strength of professionals as reliable sources of information, particularly health professionals and scholars from the medical and social sciences. Regardless of their position, experts are more prominent in the media than official sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

News coverage can play a vital role during public health crises, raising awareness about potential risks, informing about response efforts, and encouraging preventive behaviors. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the precariousness of journalists while introducing new challenges in their work. This article presents the results of a thematic analysis of 612 news articles about the initial stages of the COVID-19 outbreak in Portugal, published in a Portuguese quality newspaper from January to March 2020. Results show the relevance of geographical and cultural proximity as news values in international coverage. While the quantification of cases and deaths was a prominent theme in international and domestic coverage, specific cases of infection were frequent in domestic news, while general epidemiological indicators were more often the main theme in international coverage. News about events in Portugal was also more focused on specific containment and mitigation measures, while international coverage found states of emergency and lockdowns more newsworthy. As for news sources, there was a clear dependence on public officials and press releases from Direção-Geral de Saúde as information sources. The experiences and opinions of people speaking as individuals and not on behalf of organizations were much less frequent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study is a refiection on the social and power relations that contextualize the scientiflc sources of the news, understood here as news promoters and potential digital infiuencers. The refiection on the ways in which these transformations are conflgured in journalism is developed based on a theoretical-bibliographic research, based on the questioning of the role of the sources of news in these processes. Two associated theoretical paths support the discussion of the work: on the one hand, the emergency of a journalistic ecosystem; on the other hand, the understanding of territoriality and temporality as articulated phenomena with an emphasis on changes in the circulation of journalistic information, both emerging conditions of contemporary societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SARS-CoV-2 pandemic attracted a wide range of expert sources into journalism, especially those from the health field. Nonetheless, official sources (mainly politicians) did not become less visible. They were mainly decision-makers, even though decisions were not always well-communicated, which promoted entropy. Worldwide, countries adopted different strategies, some undergoing severe lockdowns and others rejecting restrictive measures -- and that was often difficult to understand. The management of this pandemic was hard, not only due to the lack of technical knowledge but also due to the lack of cooperation and coordination amongst several stakeholders, such as governments, health authorities, or experts. In this research, we seek to understand the role of official sources in the Portuguese press during the emergency states. In order to do so, we analyzed two national newspapers, a reference newspaper (Público) and a mainstream newspaper (Jornal de Notícias) from March 18 to May 2, 2020, and from November 9 to December 23, 2020. Our corpus comprises 2.307 news pieces: 1.850 were published during the first emergency state, quoting 4.048 news sources, and 457 were published during the second emergency state, with 857 sources. We realized that official news sources are highly visible in the news, especially those from the government, such as the prime minister and a few other ministers. Although evidence recommends the appointment of an official spokesperson, that did not happen in Portugal, and it may have contributed to some lapses throughout 2020. By the end of the year, the country had an increase in covid-19 cases, and the hesitancy that characterized political decisions was also behind that. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Forced migration movements marked the economic, political, and social agenda in 2015. Consequently, these events also determined the agenda of the media, which took on an essential role in the social representation of refugees. In 2019, when humanitarian ships found it hard to dock at European ports, we saw another peak in media coverage. The purpose of this article is to analyse how the Portuguese media covered the theme of forced migration during two of the most relevant moments (2015 and 2019) and thus, how they contributed to the social representation of refugees. After a content analysis, we concluded that the newspapers on which our study focused undervalued refugees as individuals with their own identity, reducing them to a homogeneous and voiceless group. This trend, already present in 2015, was further emphasised in 2019. There was a clear absence of explanatory articles, with the media output showing a predominance of western perspective and a constant reliance on news agencies as sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The goal of this article is to study the journalistic coverage of a bank's insolvency in 1910: the company Crédito Predial Português. We intend to evaluate how the press of the time - particularly, those positioned against the Government and/or the political regime: O Século, O Dia and O Mundo- covered this scandal. Using quantitative and the qualitative methods, we will assess the framing of the news stories, and the tone and language used. We also want to study the role that sources played in the news: how frequent their use, the prevailing categories of confidentiality (from the modern theories' perspective), the amount of information attributed to them, and their socio-professional origins. Through this method, we expect to contribute to a deeper knowledge of the Portuguese press of the first decade of the 20th century, as well as of the journalistic coverage of economic themes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The press office and media relations are strategies that make the activities of the Media Institutional Information in the Brazilian Army. To perform them, the official or military organization which he is attached are sources in news production routine. The purpose of this article is to put on the agenda Journalism teaching in specific courses for military, whose bias is training to be a news source. The methodological procedure adopted was the literature review. It is inferred that Journalism teaching in this particular situation prioritizes the other side of news production: the news source. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]