Cobertura mediática de temáticas sobre o meio ambiente: o caso do Jornal Notícias (Fevereiro a Junho de 2022)

Abstract

This study, of a quantitative nature, aimed to determine how printed journalism in Mozambique, more particularly Jornal Notícias, dedicates its pages to the publication of themes associated with the Environment, having, in this sense, collected data within a period between February 1st and June 31st, 2022, for further analysis. This collection aimed to understand the logic of publishing environmental articles carried out by one of the most important newspapers in the country. During the analysis, we found that this newspaper has an editorial dedicated to environmental issues, entitled Science, Environment and Technology, from which 43 texts were removed and explored, with a view to answering the following starting question: how did the newspaper Notícias address the matters linked to the Environment, between February and June 2022? To this end, three categories of analysis made possible suggestions for answering this question, namely: the level of coverage on the environment undertaken by Notícias between February and June 2022; the journalistic genres applied to this coverage; and the spatiality occupied by the respective articles. In general, we conclude that the newspaper under study, by opting preferentially for the news genre to the detriment of other more exploratory and comprehensive genres, added to the fact of allocating its environmental editorial to even-numbered pages, its agendas and thematic frameworks do not give due primacy or importance to environmental issues, even if it addresses them transversally