A imprensa e a emergência do jornalismo no Moçambique monárquico

In the perspective of political sociology, themain goal of this article is to observe the rise of the press and journalism in Mozambique in the course of Constitutional Monarchy. The roles developed by journalism and the features of media system are looked across the history of the press and analyzed by media theories. The monarchy time had authoritarian and liberal traces and in this context journalism and press performed diferente roles. In this period, autonomy of the press was weak in relation of political groups, professionalization was fragile and the State intervention was strong.