Cobertura jornalística de casamentos prematuros em Moçambique nos diários “Notícias” e “O País” em 2016

Abstract

This research addresses the issue of journalistic coverage of premature marriages in Mozambique, specifically in print journalism. The aim of this research is study, the news published in the year 2016 and as case of study, the newspapers “Notícias” and “O País”. The work has the general objective of examining the extent to which the “Notícias” and “O País” diaries report about premature marriages in Mozambique. However, we presented and analyzed the extent to which the newspapers “Notícias” and “O País” privilege the problem of premature marriages. In addition, we examined the content of articles in the newspapers “Notícias” and “O País” about how they report the issue of premature marriages, and we evaluated the level of journalistic coverage about premature marriages. The combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was used to discuss the results. As a result, we have noticed that the issue of premature marriages in Mozambique is one of the privileged issues in the newspapers “Notícias” and “O País”, since during the period under study the two newspapers were based on balanced coverage, obeying the basic principles of journalistic coverage. We also found that although the “Notícias” and “O País” newspapers spread information aimed at preventing and combating premature marriages, these don’t do depth analyzes of the contexts, causes and consequences of premature marriages in Mozambique.