LIACOM researcher Patricia Bandeira de Melo, in co-authorship with Neide Queiroz de Andrade (Federal University of Pernambuco), has published the article “Critérios de noticiabilidade, fontes e discursos: Como as notícias sobre drogas são no contexto brasileiro?” in the scientific journal Estudos em Comunicação.

The study examines how Brazilian media construct news coverage of drugs, seeking to understand the newsworthiness criteria, the sources most frequently used, and the dominant discourses in news reporting. The research is based on the analysis of a corpus of 100 news articles published in the newspapers Diario de Pernambuco, JC Online, and Folha de Pernambuco.

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