O Diário Carioca: debates políticos e econômicos no Brasil (1955-1960)

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the newspaper Diário Carioca in the mid-1950s, seeking to identify the tone of its speeches regarding economic and political issues. The chosen time frame was strongly marked by debates and advances in Brazilian industrialization, and Juscelino Kubistchek's government experienced a greater influx of foreign capital into the country. The written press at that time played a very important role in disseminating values and ideas relevant to capitalist expansion, as well as supporting or not supporting the government. In this way, the newspaper Diário Carioca developed, through its publications, especially regarding politics and economics, contributions and articles that gave voice to a new industrial logic in the country, supporting the JK government with its Target Plan. The periodical studied had an outstanding historical trajectory within the field of press, characterized by innovation and pioneering in the way of doing journalism. In this way, this work sought to seek relevant aspects regarding the history of the newspaper, as well as a political-economic contextualization of the 1950s, based on several bibliographic references. From this perspective, reading thematic editions of the Diário during the Kubitscheck government, the ways in which the newspaper supported the politician, as well as the analysis of reports and editorials that dealt with aspects pertinent to the government's economic policy, between 1955 and 1960, are the core of this research.