Editing Brazil (section)

=== Media ===
{{Main|Telecommunications in Brazil|Television in Brazil}}
{{See also|Concentration of media ownership#Brazil|Mass media regulation in Brazil}}
[[File:Jornal Nacional 3.jpg|thumb|Former President [[Dilma Rousseff]] at ''[[Jornal Nacional]]'' news program. [[Rede Globo]] is the world's second-largest commercial television network.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rede Globo se torna a 2ª maior emissora do mundo |url=http://ofuxico.terra.com.br/noticias-sobre-famosos/rede-globo-se-torna-a-2-maior-emissora-do-mundo/2012/05/11-139187.html  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045322/http://ofuxico.terra.com.br/noticias-sobre-famosos/rede-globo-se-torna-a-2-maior-emissora-do-mundo/2012/05/11-139187.html |archive-date=14 May 2012 |access-date=22 May 2012 |publisher=O Fuxico |language=pt}}</ref>]]

The Brazilian press was officially born in [[Rio de Janeiro]] on 13 May 1808 with the creation of the Royal Printing National Press by the [[Prince Regent]] [[João VI of Portugal|Dom João]].<ref name="EchevarríaPupo-Walker1996">{{Cite book |last1=Roberto Gonzalez Echevarría |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=97NoYRx96ZAC&pg=PA13 |title=The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature |last2=Enrique Pupo-Walker |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-521-41035-9 |page=13}}</ref> The {{lang|pt|Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro}}, the first newspaper published in the country, began to circulate on 10 September 1808.<ref name="Johnston2003">{{Cite book |last=Donald H. Johnston |title=Encyclopedia of international media and communications |publisher=Academic Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-12-387671-3 |volume=3 |page=130}}</ref> The largest newspapers nowadays are {{lang|pt|[[Folha de S.Paulo]]}}, ''Super Notícia'', ''[[O Globo]]'' and ''[[O Estado de S. Paulo]]''.<ref name="Vincent2003B">{{Cite book |last=Jon S. Vincent |url=https://archive.org/details/culturecustomsof0000vinc |title=Culture and Customs of Brazil |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-313-30495-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/culturecustomsof0000vinc/page/97 97]–100 |url-access=registration}}</ref>

Radio broadcasting began on 7 September 1922, with a speech by then President Pessoa, and was formalized on 20 April 1923 with the creation of the "Radio Society of Rio de Janeiro".<ref name="McCann2004">{{Cite book |last=Bryan McCann |url=https://archive.org/details/hellohellobrazil00mcca |title=Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil |publisher=Duke University Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-8223-3273-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/hellohellobrazil00mcca/page/22 22] |url-access=registration}}</ref> Television in Brazil began officially on 18 September 1950, with the founding of [[TV Tupi]] by [[Assis Chateaubriand]].<ref name="Ward2007">{{Cite book |last=David Ward |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zdEs1Av1CvAC&pg=PA28 |title=Television and Public Policy: Change and Continuity in an Era of Global Liberalization |publisher=Routledge |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-203-87728-9 |page=28}}</ref> Since then, television has grown in the country, creating large commercial broadcast networks such as [[Rede Globo|Globo]], [[Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão|SBT]], [[RecordTV]], [[Rede Bandeirantes|Bandeirantes]] and [[RedeTV!|RedeTV]]. Today it is the most important factor in the popular culture of Brazilian society, as indicated by research showing that as much as 67%<ref>{{Cite news |title=Um ponto de IBOPE equivale a quantas pessoas? E domicílios? |publisher=IBOPE |url=http://www.ibope.com.br/pt-br/relacionamento/duvidas-frequentes/Paginas/Audiencia-de-televisao.aspx  |access-date=23 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522190248/http://www.ibope.com.br/pt-br/relacionamento/duvidas-frequentes/Paginas/Audiencia-de-televisao.aspx |archive-date=22 May 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Top 10 das novelas |publisher=MSN Brasil |url=http://entretenimento.br.msn.com/famosos/top-10-das-novelas?page=0px  |access-date=23 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507101650/http://entretenimento.br.msn.com/famosos/top-10-das-novelas?page=0px |archive-date=7 May 2013}}</ref> of the general population follow the same daily [[telenovela]] broadcast.

By the mid-1960s, [[List of universities in Brazil by state|Brazilian universities]] had installed [[mainframe computer]]s from [[IBM]] and [[Burroughs Large Systems]]. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Brazilian government restricted foreign [[import]]s to protect the local manufacturing of computers. In the 1980s, Brazil produced half of the computers sold in the country. By 2009, the [[mobile phone]] and [[Internet]] use in Brazil was the fifth largest in the world.<ref>{{Cite book|title= Computer: A History of the Information Machine | author1=Martin Campbell-Kelly | author2= William F. Aspray | author3= Jeffrey R. Yost | author4= Honghong Tinn | author5= Gerardo Con Díaz  |publisher=  Taylor & Francis |year=2023 |isbn= 978-1-00-087875-2 }}</ref>

In May 2010, the Brazilian government launched [[TV Brasil Internacional]], an international [[television station]], initially broadcasting to 49 countries.<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 May 2010 |title=Brazil launches international TV station for Africa |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10152301 |access-date=30 October 2010}}</ref> Commercial television channels broadcast internationally include [[Globo Internacional]], [[RecordTV Internacional]] and [[Band Internacional]].