Jornalismo Regional: uma leitura a partir dos critérios de noticiabilidade do jornal O Progresso.

Regional journalism presupposes a practice that goes beyond the territorial limits of its vehicles, fueling other locations with news. Based on this, the article seeks to identify which criteria of newsworthiness, according to Silva (2014a), are used by a regional publication to cover the localities nearby or the same state. To achieve this purpose, a mixed methodology was chosen with the use of bibliographical review and content analysis of the articles published by O Progresso, a daily newspaper produced in Imperatriz (MA), during the month of October, 2017, in order to map the news from the surrounding municipalities and to systematize the newsworthiness criteria present in the texts. News from 45 cities, both from Maranhão (home state of the media) and from Tocantins, were identiied. It was also observed that proximity, justice and government are the main criteria for news in the regional coverage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]