The rise of street press and the street life in Brazil

Abstract

Part of the 1,200 homeless people living in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, participate, since March 2007, in a pioneering experience in the journalism in Bahia: the street paper called Aurora de Rua (Street Sunrise). The homeless people participates directly of the production and the selling of this tabloid printed once every two months. It is part of a project to promote social reinsertion of the ones who survive in a public space and it also tries to provoke a debate about the subject in the society. The paper applies a concept already solid in Europe – the one of street press. This article reports the experience in the city of Salvador in national and international context and it tries to establish relations between its ways to produce and the principles of ‘civic journalism’, from memory, from related bibliography and from the paper analysis.