This exploratory study investigates the journalistic influences on science reporting in Southern Africa, filling the gap that is under explored. South Africa, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe are the selected cases. Methodologically, this qualitative study relied on in-depth face-to-face interviews and purposive sampling as designs. The study employed Reese’s and Shoemaker’s hierarchy of influences model as the preferred theoretical framework because it articulates diverse factors affecting news content, categorized from a micro-individual to the macro-social system level. This study found that lack of resources, limited knowledge of science by journalists, and preference for political and economic news have largely affected the quality and frequency of science reporting in Southern Africa.

The present work had as objective to describe the journalist's professional routines that act in the selection of information in the largest vehicles of communication in Minas Gerais state. As organized group, the journalists adopt yours owns approaches for what is newswhorty. The work identifies specific approaches to define the interest for suggestions of list of scientific issues. Besides understanding the process of releases reception on C&T, the work defines the roles of press advisers of the research institutions as qualified mediators of the conflicting relationship between researchers and journalists. To reach these objectives the classic orientation of the survey methodology and the participant observation methodology was used in editorship of newspapers and television stations in the municipal districts of Belo Horizonte and Juiz de Fora. This work concludes that the majority of the guideline's suggestions came from research institutions gets lost in the disorder of the journal compositions that, by your hand, possess enough scientific culture to evaluate if releases about science is newswhorty. While the advisories of press determine to publish results of researches, the editorship journalists are looking for the science easily applicable or in context of common peoples.

The science and its developments are part of human history. Nowadays, we see its evidence in our daily lives, from trivial actions, but also on complex issues such as human cloning. The media, in turn, recognizing the power of science has spread scientific advances in its support and is in accordance with this perspective that consolidates the production of scientific journalism, a practice that aims the dissemination of science under the auspices of journalistic standards . Thus, this study sought to understand the construction of texts of speeches verbal and nonverbal included in the section Science & Technology of the ÉPOCA magazine, which aims to disseminate scientific matters. To this end, we selected seven subjects in this section broadcast from January to December 2010. In analyzes, we apply the principles of greimasiana semiotics, which is based on the route generative methodological sense, which shows the production of meanings in the text heights. We seek to highlight the effects of meaning caused by discursive strategies chosen by the reporters as well as the joints that confirm the formation of these texts.

Fundamentado em acervos on-line de jornais e publicações históricas, este artigo expõe a possibilidade de os jesuítas, por meio de cartas e livros, terem sido os primeiros a divulgar as descobertas sobre os povos, as plantas e os animais do Brasil para um público amplo, em linguagem simples. O marco inicial dessa abordagem são as cartas de Manoel da Nóbrega escritas em 1549, portanto dois séculos antes de 1808, considerado o marco inicial da divulgação científica no país.

Fundamentado em acervos on-line de jornais e publicações históricas, este artigo, de caráter retrospectivo, apresenta os jornais que trataram de ciência e tecnologia, a construção do noticiário por meio da cobertura da passagem de Vênus diante do Sol, em dezembro de 1874, e redatores científicos profícuos – Manoel Ferreira de Araújo Guimarães, João Tibiriçá Piratininga, Eurico Santos, José Reis, Frederico Carlos Hoehne, Rômulo Argentière e outros – de 1808 a 1950.

Based on online collections of newspapers and historical publications, this retrospective exposes the diversity of actors - religious, travelers, lawyers, agronomists, botanists, zoologists, physicists, mathematicians, doctors, professional journalists and bloggers - and printed forms - letters, books, newspapers, magazines, blogs – involved in the dissemination of knowledge about zoology, botany, anthropology and agriculture in Brazil since the 16th century. This third and last part presents the first scientific reporters – Julio Abramczyk and José Hamilton Ribeiro – the coverage of science, technology and environment in the magazines of the Abril and Globo publishers, the magazines and newspaper sections on computers, the hybrid production publications and the effects of internet on ways to disseminate science. Together, one can notice the birth, death, superimposition and complementation of styles, forms, vehicles of printed communication and of the people who made them.