Cobertura jornalística da primeira cassação da vereadora Edna Sampaio : uma análise dos portais Mídia News e Gazeta Digital

Abstract

This final academic project analyzes the journalistic coverage of the first impeachment of councilwoman Edna Sampaio (PT), which took place between August and November 2022, by the news portals MidiaNews and Gazeta Digital. Elected as the first Black woman to serve on the Cuiabá City Council, Edna proposed a collective mandate involving civil society, and her actions received wide coverage in the local press. The research aims to understand how the media outlets framed the impeachment process, focusing on narrative strategies and editorial choices that shape public perception of the episode. The corpus consists of more than one hundred manually collected articles. The methodology used was Content Analysis (Bardin, 2011), grounded in Framing Theory (Goffman, 1974; Entman, 1993). The results indicate significant differences between the portals regarding their treatment of the information and their stance toward the events. This study contributes to the debate on political journalism, crisis reporting, and the role of regional media in contexts of institutional conflict.