[en] The following investigation is intended to do an analyses of how the printed newspapers of Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul-Brasil builds and gives visibility to the reality of children and teenagers. We have as study object the discourse of the rights of children and teenagers, choosing as source to the formulation of a sample with 1.012 cases taken from the newspapers Correio do Estado and O Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul. We examine the contents willing to know if the newspapers, to give base to the news, consider the Federal Constitution, the Child and Adolescent Statute, as well as the international conventions that assures the youth's rights. We observed the status of the informations sources in the narratives, as well as the editorial status of the theme. The studies about the construction of the reality of children and adolescents, articulated by the journalistic speech demanded a teoric and methodologic multi-disciplined examination. For that examination, we counted on the contributions of the areas: communication, law and sociology. We base the research on the social construction of the reality theory that have Schutz as the main support, talking about the structures and problems of everyday life. We used Berger and Luckmann that brings the same theme, associated with the relations of human beings with the communication. We counted on the thoughts of Tuchman (meaning of the narrative's constitution); Lippmann and McCombs (agenda theory); Goffman (stigmatization); Dallari and Digiácomo (human constitutional rights). On the quantitative methodology dimension we anchored our work in authors as Krippendorff, Corbetta and Velázquez, between other contributions that made clear all the phases / stage that gave structure to our investigation. On the speeches analyses we count on the concepts of communicative situation and context by van Dijk. As well, we count on the contribuition of Bakhtin speech genres) and on the help of Austin and Searle (non-locution acts) and Greimas (analyses of the acted functions). The investigation is divided in two main parts, organized in seven chapters that brings: political context, media, theory of the social reality's construction, contents analyses, discourse analyses, language and speech resources; and the voice of press' professionals and others social actors. In the results of the study we have the creation of theoretical support to new investigations and contributions to the scientific area, media and civil society. The conclusion shows that newspapers and journalists shows disposition to talk about children and adolescents in the humans right perspective, but still tend to focus on the violence as a factor of detriment to the social integrity, building a negative reality. The Brazilian Federal Constitution, the Child and Adolescent Statute and the international conventions are not used to build the bases of journalistic production. The press doesn't supervise the authorities in the creation, proposition and execution of public politics. The state, the authorities and society violates the Child and Adolescent Statute, without bringing the theme to their agenda. The sources, in most of the times, are institutional. The family and non-governmental organizations are invisible in the narratives. The quantitative and qualitative analyses show a child and adolescent criminalization process, focusing in the last one. Considering that children and adolescents are "absolute priority", as said in the Statute, the actors, including the press, talking in defense or talking about the children's rights and duties in the eye of law, are few. There are few heroes in the information context that was investigated.

[es] Esta investigación tiene como objetivo general analizar cómo los periódicos de Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul-Brasil construyen y dan visibilidad a la realidad de los niños y adolescentes. Tenemos como objeto de estudio el discurso sobre los derechos de los niños y adolescentes, cuya elección de fuentes para la formulación de la muestra fue extraída de 1.012 casos de los periódicos Correio do Estado y O Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul. Considerando que los niños y los adolescentes son "prioridad absoluta", según el Estatuto, son pocos los actores, incluyendo la propia prensa, que salen en defensa o tratan los derechos y deberes infantiles y juveniles en la perspectiva de la legislación. Son pocos los héroes que surgen en el contexto informativo analizado.