The reporter Euclides da Cunha in Canudos

Abstract

The paper works about a context of Euclides da Cunha´s time. It is a study about the charasteristics of newsmaking at the end of XIX century and beginning of the XXth., specialy the Canudos campaign and how it was received and perceived by the press. Canudos has received a great attention from the press and became the first midiatic event in the brazilian history. At the end, there is a study about the Cunhas´s originals texts sended from the front of the war. These texts make evident contemporary values even importants on the daily journalism.