In the 1970s, in my early days as a columnist, I asked professionals aged 70 or over. They punched the plate, mold, or I-don't-know-what the master copy of the news was on, so they could publish it ahead of competitors,” journalist, professor and writer Deonísio da Silva told LJR.ĭespite the good story, it lacks historical proof, as the professor admits: “I never wrote about it because I couldn't prove how the expressions passed into the life of newsrooms. Some journalists went by boat to the ships to catch the news before they docked. In the 19th century, the digital search of the newspaper library unearthed similar records in the Jornal Cidade Nova (1897) and in the Jornal do Brasil (1899). A search in the Digital Library of the National Library of Brazil found the oldest reference in the newspaper A Pacotilha, in Maranhão, on April 9, 1897. Despite many versions of the use of this word in journalism, there is no consensus on the origin of the use in this sense. The literal translation of furo is “hole” in English. Despite being used the same way, the three words have very different literal translations. It has the same meaning as furo in Portuguese, and primicia in Spanish. In English, a scoop is a piece of exclusive, first-hand news released by a journalist or media outlet before competitors. We start with one of the most popular and important terms in journalistic practice in any language. Have a good time and please send us your critiques and additions: 1.Scoop/Primicia/Furo So, with this last article of 2020, the LJR team decided to share with you a short list of some of the original journalistic expressions in the three languages and their translations. Of course, most have a translation, but it's not always that simple.įor example, would you, dear Portuguese speakers, imagine that your fellow English-speaking journalists do not have a single word that is similar to our 'pauta'? Or, dear Spanish speakers, did you know that in Peru journalists use “la pepa” to describe the most important statement from an interview? In fact, by the way, there is huge regional diversity, too, not just between languages, as we can imagine. What you don't know is that, since we write about journalism, every now and then we come across expressions and jargon of the profession that are specific and original to a language. Our editor Teresa Mioli, on the other hand, translates all of our stories into English. Every week, Júlio Lubianco and Marina Estarque translate texts from colleagues Paola Nalvarte and Silvia Higuera into Portuguese, and they translate our articles into Spanish. All of our articles are published in three languages: English, Spanish and Portuguese. LatAm Journalism Review (LJR) is a trilingual digital magazine.

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