Jornal Nacional


, ) is the flagship television newscast of TV Globo. First airing on 1 September 1969, according to IBOPE, in the week of 28 September4 October 2015, it was the second most watched program in Brazilian television, with an average of 26,007,251 viewers per minute and for 5.5 million people worldwide via TV Globo Internacional.
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History

Jornal Nacional premiered on 1 September 1969, hosted by Hilton Gomes and Cid Moreira, the first Rio de Janeiro-produced newscast to be shown nationwide. Months later, the program featured the network's first female weekend presenter Márcia Mendes.
During the 1970s, Jornal Nacional preferred to emphasize international news and sports. The British documentary Beyond Citizen Kane suggests that this happened so that Globo wouldn't have to report the repression of the Brazilian military government, which would have provided a substantial part of the network's growth. Despite this, the program introduced some innovations.
Through the 1980s, three episodes involving the program caused controversy. In 1982, Jornal Nacional coverage of the state elections of Rio de Janeiro was accused of participating in a plot to fraud the elections. According to former Rede Globo employee Roméro da Costa Machado, Leonel Brizola, a candidate of the opposition to the military regime, was a politician historically persecuted by Rede Globo owner Roberto Marinho. Two years later, the program was accused of omitting information about the Diretas Já, a popular campaign for resuming the direct election for president, near the end of the dictatorship. Finally, in 1989, Jornal Nacional was accused of editing a presidential debate between runoff candidates Fernando Collor and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in order to favor Collor. This episode is also extensively debated on Beyond Citizen Kane.
In the 1990s, the quality of Rede Globo's journalism increased dramatically. Jornal Nacional presented its viewers breaking stories such as police brutality at favelas, an interview with Paulo César Farias when he was on the run from the law, corruption cases on the social security, the kicking of the saint incident among several others.
In recent days, after the death of Marinho, Rede Globo's journalism again declined in quality. Jornal Nacional has preferred to broadcast stories produced on the Southeast, in spite of Globo having affiliates in every Brazilian state. During the Mensalão scandal and the 2006 general elections, Jornal Nacional was once again accused of airing anti-Lula biased news. It also lost a significant part of its viewership to Rede Record's Jornal da Record, which copied its style and also features former Jornal Nacional anchors, Celso Freitas and Marcos Hummel. In November 2005, host William Bonner caused controversy after he compared the average Jornal Nacional viewer with Homer Simpson, the ignorant main character of the American animated series The Simpsons.
As part of Rede Globo's 50th anniversary, Jornal Nacional was in 2015 given a brand new look and a brand new intro, however, the theme tune will remain unchanged. Between 17 March and 27 April that year, the newscast aired on chroma key.
On 19 June 2017, Jornal Nacional introduced a new set in the middle of a newsroom at Globo's Rio de Janeiro headquarters, which features a curved glass backdrop that can be used with laser projectors for background graphics, and augmented reality effects.
From 31 August through 30 November 2019, in honour of the program's 50th anniversary, Saturday editions of Jornal Nacional were broadcast with anchor pairings representing Rede Globo's affiliates. Just months afterward, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the network news division decided that Bonner become the alternate Saturday presenter, while overall presentation duties were assumed by reporters from the flagship station in Rio de Janeiro full time instead of São Paulo or Brasilla-based ones, with a four-person team appointed to alternate by twos the presentation of the Saturday edition, unless extraordinary news coverages on Saturdays warrant the presence of the weekday presenter team. Two more joined the Saturday pool for the 2021 season.
On 1 November 2025, as part of TV Globo's reorganization of news department announced on 1 September, Cristiana Sousa Cruz, who previously deputy editor-in-chief during Bonner's tenure as main presenter, was appointed as new editor-in-chief of Jornal Nacional, making it the first replacement of editor-in-chief in 26 years.

Hosts

Jornal Nacional's first hosts were Hilton Gomes and Cid Moreira. In 1971, Sérgio Chapelin replaced Gomes and joined Moreira as the longest-running duo of program hosts. In 1983, Chapelin was replaced by Celso Freitas. Chapelin returned in 1989, hosting again with Moreira until 1996. In that year, William Bonner and Lillian Witte Fibe began serving as hosts. From 1998 and prior to 5 December 2011, Witte Fibe was replaced by Bonner's then-wife, Fátima Bernardes. Bonner and Bernardes recently tied with Chapelin and Moreira as the longest-running duo of Jornal Nacional hosts. From 31 October 2014, the former host of Fantástico, Renata Vasconcellos replaced Patrícia Poeta and joined Bonner as the current hosts of the program.
On 1 September 2025, 56th anniversary of the program, William Bonner announced that he would step down as editor-in-chief and presenter of Jornal Nacional at the end of the year, in preparation to move his role as the presenter of Globo Repórter in February 2026. In turn, TV Globo announced that the last day of Bonner's tenure as presenter of JN would be on 31 October 2025. After that, César Tralli, which was JN's relief presenter since 2018, took over its helm as a new permanent presenter on 3 November 2025.

Main presenters

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  • Fabiana Scaranzi
  • Rosana Jatobá
  • Flávia Freire
  • Michelle Loreto
  • Maria Júlia Coutinho
  • Anne Lottermann
  • Eliana Marques

Relief presenters

Special Relief presenters for the 50th golden anniversary season

Criticism

Some of the news aired by Jornal Nacional are criticized for not representing all points of view, manipulating news and being sensationalist.