Românticos: a rotina e os valores dos jornalistas porto-alegrense da geração de 1940

This work promotes a reflection about the routine and the professional and personal values of nine journalists from Porto Alegre who began their careers between the years of 1940 and 1960. The concluding overview mainly shows that: the journalist could develop his activities more freely in the past; technological advances, on the one hand, facilitated the processes of information capture, but, on the other, decreased the journalist’s presence in the places where the events unfold; the press was organized into sections and editors who contributed to the routinization of the profession; the oldest reporters went through more challenging training processes with less education to carry out the tasks; and finally, this generation lived a more romantic atmosphere of the profession. Keywords: journalism, journalists, routine, values.