Abstract
The purpose of this article is to verify whether there is or there is not local news content being produced by radiobroadcasters and by radio and TV re-broadcasters in the 32 municipalities with very low development indicators (Very Low IDHM), all of them in the North and in the Northeast regions. The scope of the study was determined by the lack of information either on media practices or local characteristics, which entailed the use of local media and local journalism concepts to advance the field analysis. The article considers territorial arrangements and media arrangements in observing the production of radio and RTV re-broadcasters. Legal and policies documents and empirical observation suggest that there is a direction (natural or intentional) in establishing a system of reproduction of information from other media in larger cities. The concepts used are territories, local media, and “news desert”.
Keywords
local content; radiobroadcast stations; radio and tv re-broadcasters; “news deserts”