''Jornal Nacional'' (; ) is the flagship television newscast of

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. First airing on September 1, 1969, according to IBOPE ( Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics), in the week of September 28October 4, 2015, it was the second most watched program in Brazilian television, with an average of 26,007,251 viewers per minute (roughly 12.5% of the Brazilian population) and for 5.5 million people worldwide via Globo International.

History

''Jornal Nacional'' premiered on September 1, 1969, hosted by Hilton Gomes and Cid Moreira, the first

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-produced newscast to be shown nationwide. Months later, the program featured the network's first female weekend presenter Márcia Mendes. During the 1970s, ''Jornal Nacional'' preferred to emphasize international news and sports. The British documentary '' Beyond Citizen Kane'' suggests that this happened so that Globo wouldn't have to report the repression of the Brazilian military government, which would have provided a substantial part of the network's growth. Despite this, the program introduced new innovations (color broadcasts in 1970, via satellite reports in 1974, live reports in 1977 and videotape footage in 1978). Through the 1980s, three episodes involving the program caused controversy. In 1982, ''Jornal Nacionals coverage of the state elections of

was accused of participating in a plot to fraud the elections. According to former Rede Globo employee Roméro da Costa Machado,

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, a candidate of the opposition to the military regime, was a politician historically persecuted by Rede Globo owner Roberto Marinho. Two years later, the program was accused of omitting information about the '' Diretas Já'', a popular campaign for the resuming of the direct election for president, near the end of dictatorship. Finally, in 1989, ''Jornal Nacional'' was accused of editing a presidential debate between runoff candidates Fernando Collor and Luis Inacio Lula da Silva in order to favour Collor. This episode is also extensively debated on ''Beyond Citizen Kane''. In the 1990s, the quality of Rede Globo's journalism increased dramatically. ''Jornal Nacional'' presented its viewers breaking stories such as

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s, an interview with Paulo César Farias when he was on the run from the law, corruption cases on the

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, the kicking of the saint incident among several others. In recent days, after the death of Marinho, Rede Globo's journalism again declined in quality. ''Jornal Nacional'' has preferred to broadcast stories produced on the Southeast, in spite of Globo having affiliates in every Brazilian state. During the Mensalão scandal and the 2006 general elections, ''Jornal Nacional'' was once again accused of airing anti-Lula biased news. Even worse, it lost great part of its viewership to Rede Record's ''Jornal da Record'', which copied its style and also features former ''Jornal Nacional'' anchors, Celso Freitas and Marcos Hummel (as a relief presenter for Jornal da Record), and was known to be widely preferred as a more credible newscast than ''Jornal Nacional''. In November 2005, host William Bonner caused controversy after he compared the average ''Jornal Nacional'' viewer with

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, the ignorant main character of the American animated series ''

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''. As part of Rede Globo's 50th anniversary, ''Jornal Nacional'' was in 2015 given a brand new look and a brand new intro, however, the theme tune will remain unchanged. Between March 17 and April 27 that year, the newscast aired on

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. On June 19, 2017, ''Jornal Nacional'' introduced a new set in the middle of a newsroom at Globo's Rio de Janeiro headquarters, which features a curved glass backdrop that can be used with laser projectors for background graphics, and

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effects. From August 31 through November 30, 2019, Saturday editions of ''Jornal Nacional'' were broadcast with anchor pairings representing Rede Globo's affiliates. Just months afterward, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the network news division decided that Bonner become the alternate Saturday presenter, while overall presentation duties were assumed by reporters from the flagship station in Rio de Janeiro full time instead of São Paulo or Brasilla-based ones, with a four-person team appointed to alternate by twos the presentation of the Saturday edition, unless extraordinary news coverages on Saturdays (including sports events) warrant the presence of the weekday presenter team. Two more joined the Saturday pool for the 2021 season.

Hosts

After over 50 years of broadcast, several reporters hosted ''Jornal Nacional''. Hilton Gomes and Cid Moreira were the first hosts. In 1971, Sérgio Chapelin replaced Gomes and joined Moreira as the longest-running duo of ''Jornal Nacional'' hosts. In 1983, Chapelin was replaced by Celso Freitas. Chapelin returned in 1989, hosting again with Moreira until 1996. In that year, William Bonner and Lillian Witte Fibe began serving as hosts. From 1998 and prior to December 5, 2011, Witte Fibe was replaced by Bonner's now ex-wife,

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. Bonner and Bernardes recently tied with Chapelin and Moreira as the longest-running duo of ''Jornal Nacional'' hosts. From October 31, 2014, the former host of Fantástico, Renata Vasconcellos replaced

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(who also replaced Fátima) and joined Bonner as the current hosts of this programme.

Main presenters

* Hilton Gomes (1969–1971) * Cid Moreira (1969–1996) * Ronaldo Rosas (1971-1972) * Sérgio Chapelin (1972–1983; 1989–1996) * Celso Freitas (1983–1989) * William Bonner (since 1996) * Lillian Witte Fibe (1996–1998) *

(1998–2011) *

(2011–2014) * Renata Vasconcellos (since 2014)

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* Fabiana Scaranzi (2000–2004) * Rosana Jatobá (2004–2013) * Flávia Freire (2012-2013) * Michelle Loreto (2013-2015) * Maria Júlia Coutinho (2015-2019) * Anne Lottermann (2019-2021) * Eliana Marques (Since 2021)

Relief presenters

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(since 2002) * Ana Paula Araújo (since 2011) * Giuliana Morrone (since 2015) * Rodrigo Bocardi (since 2016) * Ana Luiza Guimarães (since 2017) *

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(since 2018) * Flávio Fachel (since 2019) * Márcio Bonfim (since 2020) * Roberto Kovalick (since 2020) * Aline Aguiar (since 2020) * Jessica Senra (since 2020) * André Trigueiro (since 2020) * Helter Duarte (since 2020) * Mariana Gross (since 2020) * Aline Midlej (since 2021) * Paulo Renato Soares (since 2021)

Special Relief presenters for the 50th golden anniversary season

* Ayres Rocha (

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) *Filipe Todelo (

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) * Aline Ferreira (

Amapá Amapá () is one of the 26 states of Brazil. It is in the northern region of Brazil. It is the second least populous state and the eighteenth largest by area. Located in the far northern part of the country, Amapá is bordered clockwise by Fr ...

) *Luana Borba ( Amazonas) *Jéssica Senra (

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) *Taís Lopes (

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) *Philipe Lemos (

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) * Fábio William (

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) * Matheus Ribeiro (

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) * Giovanni Spinucci (

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) * Luzimar Collares (

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) *Lucimar Lescano (

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) *Aline Aguiar (

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) *Priscilla Castro (

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) * Sandro Dalpícolo ( Paraná) * Larissa Pereira (

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) * Marcelo Magno (

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) * Márcio Bonfim (

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) * Cristina Ranzolin ( Rio Grande do Sul) *Lídia Pace (

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) * Ellen Ferreira (

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) *Ana Lídia Daíbes (

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) * Fabian Londero ( Santa Catarina) * Carlos Tramontina (

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) * Lyderwan Santos (

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) * Mariana Gross (

) * Thiago Rogeh (

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)

Ratings

Criticism

Some of the news aired by Jornal Nacional are criticized for not representing all points of view, manipulating news and being sensationalist.Medeiros, Flavia Natércia da Silva; Massarani, Luisa
"Pandemic on the air: a case study on the coverage of new influenza A/H1N1 by Brazilian prime time TV news"
21 September 2010. Retrieved on 31 January 2016.Boldrin, Mariana M
"A IMAGINAÇÃO MELODRAMÁTICA NO JORNAL NACIONAL"
'' Universidade Federal de Goias'', 2015. Retrieved on 31 January 2016.

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