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O trabalho analisa o papel que os jornalistas ligados ao Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCB) desempenharam no processo de modernização do jornalismo brasileiro entre as décadas de 1950 e 1970. Apresenta evidências de que os comunistas tiveram uma presença significativa nos jornais deste período, inclusive naqueles de linha política conservadora, tanto do ponto de vista quantitativo, quanto qualitativo (em cargos de chefia). Sugere que a tolerância a esta presença por parte dos patrões conservadores obedeceu a razões estratégicas de ambas as partes. Sustenta que, em troca de uma certa autonomia na sala de redação, os jornalistas comunistas ajudaram a construir e garantir redes de disciplina e lealdade que sustentaram as condições para a implementação do novo modelo de jornalismo.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, during the peak of the cold war, communist journalists had a significant presence in Brazilian conservative papers. They even held high-ranking positions. Newspaper owners were aware of their political orientations, but they did not seem concerned. In fact, some of those communist journalists enjoyed high professional prestige. An unusual symbiotic relationship has developed between conservative publishers and their communist employees. This article discusses such relationship in light of the modernization of Brazilian newspapers that started in the 1950s. To modernize their newspapers, publishers needed to rely on journalists' ability to deal with the news as a technical, industrial product. Journalists with communist sympathies provided skilled work and were willing to be loyal and disciplined in the newsrooms. They had their own reasons for working in the “big press.” The American rhetoric of professional journalism provided a common language for communist journalists and conservative publishers to work together. The Brazilian case has important lessons for analyzing the adaptation of the American model of professional journalism in different national settings.

DOSSIÊ DITADURA RESUMO Neste artigo iremos pesquisar o papel que a imprensa do Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCdoB) teve nos anos 1970 na sobrevivência do partido diante do agudo quadro de perseguições por ele sofrido. Partimos da hipótese que este jornal estava inserido num circuito comunicativo do partido cuja ênfase primordial era efetivar entre os militantes o mito da revolução mesmo diante da mais severa crise e da opção velada do partido pela via eleitoral após o fracasso da guerrilha do Araguaia. Para sustentarmos este argumento, trabalhamos com os conceitos de rede de comunicação e comunidade imaginada. PALAVRAS-CHAVE ABSTRACTIn this article we will search the role that the press of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) had in the 1970s in the survival of the party before the acute framework of persecution he suffered. Our hypothesis is that this paper was inserted into a communication circuit of the party whose primary emphasis was to effect the militants among the myth of revolution even before the most severe financial crisis and the hidden option of the party by the electoral process after the failure of the Araguaia guerrilla. To sustain this argument, we work with the concepts of network communication and imagined community.Comunicação partidária: a estratégia comunista durante a ditadura militar brasileira