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This study constitutes a journalistic framing analysis of the Brazilian weekly magazines Veja and IstoÉ coverage of the impeachment process of former president Dilma Rousseff, which was concluded in August 2016, from a gender perspective. A multimodal analysis is used as a methodological approach, adding some elements to the classic functions of framing, such as the study of sources, information channels, and rhetorical strategies related to journalism. It is possible to infer that the journalistic framing of the impeachment process by the two Brazilian magazines plays a destabilizing political role in the power game, and that it suffers influences from the sexist universe that historically characterizes the deliberative politics in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is based on the contribution of two theoretical-methodological approaches expressively disseminated in the journalism studies ield - frame analysis and rhetorical criticism - in order to develop a critical analysis of the concept of "construction news-value", conception originated from European authors, such as Traquina (2008) and Wolf (2003), with signiicant reception in Brazilian journalism schools. Rooted on authors such as Gofman (2012), Gitlin (2003), Entman (1993) e Kuypers (2009), this article elaborates a critical view to the concept of "construction news-value" and it contributes on the understanding that both approaches mentioned above can ofer a more elaborated theoretical-methodological base in comparison with a news classiication from ixed parameters supposedly shared in the journalistic ield. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article uses the framing analysis references in order to study how two of the largest Brazilian weekly magazines – Veja and IstoÉ – employ rhetorical strategies to similarly frame their news coverage of the first year of the second term of President Dilma Rousseff. As empirical frame, the study focuses on the issues of January and December, 2015, a period marked by a deep political crisis involving the Brazilian federal government. It can be concluded that the approach of the two weekly magazines, especially in their sources selection processes, hierarchy of information and use of rhetorical figures, resembles a hegemonic news framing model such as those employed by Gitlin (2003), Porto (2002), Sigal (1974) and Soley (1992), such as: simplification, dramatization, muting of political actors and construction of a hegemonic pattern of sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]