A produção noticiosa na rádio Ecclesia

: a evangelização através da notícia

Abstract

The technological progress of the media and its various values convinced the Church to use them and to frame them in its missionary, social and educational activity. This openness of the Church to the social media consolidated with the definition of a pastoral for communications during the Second Vatican Council, suggested this a study on the contribution of the Radio Ecclesia (RE) in the evangelization of Angola, through the news production. The literature review concerning both the relationship between the Church and the media and the role of generalist radio in the ether and the web, helped us to build a basis for reflection on the pertinence of the founding of a catholic radio station in Angola in an African context where, in general, the public service of broadcasting aims, above all, to promote and give media visibility to the activities of the political power in force. From the research carried out based on the Content Analysis of 10 radio news, in two different periods, we conclude that since its foundation, the Angolan Catholic Radio has made a valuable contribution to the Church of Angola: is public service popular catholic radio station, generalist and has a missionary and social vocation. Using the official, ecclesial and private sources, the RE adopts the reportage as the preferred journalistic genre in the description of events, mainly of national scope, although circumscribed to the region of Luanda. In a dynamic of proximity journalism, the news program of the RE gives space and priority to the most deprived populations, in the context of its mission as a vehicle of the Church in its mission to spread the Gospel. For the fulfillment of its mission, the RE has sought to observe the standards of journalistic ethics and the Church's guidelines for information production. However, it is necessary that in the execution of this mission, RE invest more in the training of its professionals, bet more on the restructuring of its web radio and persist in the ongoing dialogue with the government, aiming to expand its signal throughout the country.

Date of Award	24 Oct 2017
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Nelson Ribeiro (Supervisor)