João do Rio, cronista reporteiro na Belle Époque carioca e a alma encantadora das ruas do Rio de Janeiro no início do século XX

Abstract

The principal subject this article is related to thel Joâo Paulo Alberto Coelho Barreto's familiar essay. He's a writer and journalist from Rio de Janeiro, most known as João do Rio, during the Belle Époqlle, in other words, the two first decenials of the 20,h century. The context is about a process of the big transformations in the city of Rio de Janeiro, concerning to the urban face of the city with repercussion in the cultural, administrative, political areas and the quotidian times. João do Rio follows step by step all this transformation, producting in the local press at full speed familiar essays that are transformed in reportages, creating new practices in the brazilian journalism. We call the production of João do Rio the crônica reporteira.