Revista o cruzeiro: uma fonte de informação histórica

Abstract

It present qualitative-descriptive approach of the information contained in the reports of the magazine O Cruzeiro, taking in consideration the historical variables, with special attentien to the political events observed through the ruled information in the copies of the decade of 1960. The study aims at to analyze the information contained in the above-mentioned magazine that can be characterized as testimony of your time. It present synthesis of the history of the press written in Brazil in the century XX, your transformations and main newspapers and magazines and, exhibition of concepts on information, knowledge, source of information and historical sources. It analyzes the journalistic information of O Cruzeiro in the decade of 60, giving emphasis to the year of 1964, period in that Brazil went by great crisis in the political scenery, as the Revolution of April and the Military Dictatorship. It is also other copies that marked the transformations of the magazine. The magazine is examined as source of historical information. Analyze it of the information on that two episodes of our above-mentioned political history, contained in the copies of O Cruzeiro, it evidenced your character of testimony of the history, coming as a source of rich information for research in several areas of the knowledge.