Agência Brasil

Brasília - The Foreign Press Support Center, in Paris, is holding the 1st International Encounter on the Press and Media in Brazil, today, as part of the Year of Brazil in France, which got underway officially in March. The seminar enjoys the participation of Brazilian and French journalists and media researchers and specialists from the Sorbonne University's Institute of Advanced Latin American Studies.

One of the main topics of debate is the role of the Brazilian press vis-à-vis opinion-makers and the extent to which the printed media, television networks, and radio stations influence the public policy agenda. Press freedom, the relationship between professionalization and diversity, and images of Brazil in the French media and images of France in the Brazilian media will also be treated.

Translation: David Silberstein