Brazil: A Portrait of Diparities

Ano: 2007 | Volume: 3 | Número: 1

Autores: C. W. Abramo

Palavras-chave: market, news stories, corruption

Resumo Inglês:

Transparencia Brasil (an NGO dedicated to fi ghting corruption
in the country) involves systematically gathering stories about
corruption and associated themes published in the daily press.
Titled “Deu no Jornal” (It Made the News), the initiative has been
collecting news stories published in 59 dailies and four weeklies
since January 2004. The publications covered by the project
comprise all the main newspapers from all 26 states, plus the
Federal District. No signifi cant newspaper from any state is absent.
News is taken from the newspapers’ web editions and introduced
into a data base. Each story is fi led under a specifi c “case”2 and
cases are categorized according to several descriptive criteria. At
the time of this writing, Deu no Jornal included about 142,500
stories distributed among 3,586 diff erent cases, corresponding to
an aggregate of about 326 million characters. On the average, about
3.5 new cases of corruption are reported by the Brazilian press
somewhere every day. Deu no Jornal is the most comprehensive
database of news stories on corruption in existence, not only in
Brazil but worldwide.