Assistant Professor
Pedro holds a PhD in Communication from Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), a master’s degree from the School of Communication of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (ECO/UFRJ), where he also achieved his BA in Journalism. He is currently an adjunct professor in the Communications Department at UFF, teaching courses related to Journalism, and collaborates as an assistant professor at the PPGMC, affiliated to Strand #2 – Politics, discourses and society. Formerly, he was a professor at the Department of Journalism of the State University of Ponta Grossa (UEPG) and a substitute teacher at the Department of Journalism of Rio de Janeiro State University (2016-2017) and the very same Communications Department at UFF (2013-2015). He is a member of the Brazilian Association of Journalism Research (SBPJor) and the Latin Union of Political Economy of Information, Communication and Culture (ULEPICC-Brasil). In 2019, he was awarded the Adelmo Genro Filho Prize of Journalism Research for his doctoral thesis. Also affiliated with research groups Logics of Production and Consumption in Journalism (UEPG) and Policy and Political Economy of Communication (PEIC – UFRJ). His current research project is “History of Brazilian News Agencies and Foreign News Agencies in Brazil”. His fields of interest revolve around topics such as news agencies, support activities in the news industry, political economy of news and geopolitics of media and communications. Previously, he worked as a journalist in print, broadcasting and news agency.
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7490814386220321
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8812-6545
e-mail: pedroaguiar@id.uff.br
Current research
História das Agências de Notícias Brasileiras e das Agências de Notícias Estrangeiras no Brasil
Descrição: This research aims to build a narrative on the history of Brazilian news agencies and foreign news agencies that operated in Brazil, in order to provide scholarly literature which can be incorporated to the body of work on the history of Brazilian news media and journalism. By 2024, it will be 150 years since news agency journalism started in Brazil, with no consolidated history ever being written insofar about this segment of the news industry in the country. This history includes some of the most renowned journalists, authors and thinkers in Brazil, such as Olavo Bilac, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Monteiro Lobato, Menotti del Picchia and Austregésilo de Athayde, yet it remains largely ignored in the textbooks of history of the press and journalism. Two different, parallel stories, are to be addressed: foreign news agencies that had offices in Brazil or sold their services to Brazilian news media (Havas, Reuters, Comtelburo, Transocean, United Press and UPI, Associated Press, Stefani, TASS, ANSA, DPA, Kyodo, Prensa Latina, Xinhua, EFE, IPS, Lusa, Bloomberg) and news agencies established in Brazil by Brazilians (AAT, CTI, AA, AB, Meridional, Agência Nacional, EBN, Agência Brasil, Agência JB, CMA, ASApress, Transpress, Press Parga, FBI, SportPress/LancePress, Agência Estado/Broadcast, Folhapress, Agência O Globo, Manchete Press, Abril Press). This research adopts the digital archives of the National Library of Brazil as its main source, from which queries can be performed in search of 1) dispatches from news agencies reproduced by newspapers and magazines; 2) news about news agencies operations in Brazil; 3) ads, reports, tenders, bids, public accountability and legal notices related to news agencies. By the end, it intends to amount to a basic, yet comprehensive, bibliographic body, in due time to observe the sesquicentennial anniversary of news agency journalism in Brazil, in 2024.
Status: Ongoing.
Project Type: Research.
