Ouset, course and ending of cordial Gazeta

Abstract

This article puts into context the history of Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro, the first newspaper edited in Brazil. It runs over the context that preceded royal family and Portuguese court transference toward Brazil, the forces correlation in State council and its influences over D. João in Brazilian territory, the figures who idealize the royal printing press and the newspaper setting up, the insert of the newspaper into a controlled field, and the conditions for the press insurgency in a challenging point of view. It verifies, also, the consequent editorial reformulation and adaptation of Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro to the new times and historical processes, like de republican uprising in Pernambuco an Lisbon, the constitutional revolution in Porto and the Brazilian independence movement.