Photojournalistic coverage of the attack against the school of Beslan in six Portuguese and Brazilian newsmagazines

Abstract

This work describes how six Portuguese and Brazilian newsmagazines used photojournalism to cover the attack against the school of Beslan (Russia) on september 2004, through a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the speech. Main conclusions: 1) Photos had been a structural element of the narrative and had contributed to support a speech of condemnation and excommunication of the terrorists; 2) Photojournalists used historically consolidated professional routines and standards, what shows that history helps to define the shape of news photos; 3) Photojournalism is as selective and biased as written journalism: shows in the same proportion that hides.