This dissertation sought to reflect on the process of mediatization of digital economic
journalism, when reproducing the content about the Brazilian sovereign rating, issued by the
Credit Rating Agencies (CRA's), Fitch, Moody's and Standards & Poor's. The research was
based on the analysis of publications of the economy sections of the digital communication
vehicles Folha Mercado, Estadão Economia, Reuters Market and Agência Brasil Economia,
which represent the vehicles of economic coverage of the "Economy and business news"
category; and also of Infomoney, Valor Econômico, Investing and Advfn, which represent the
vehicles of the "Financial Market News website" category. The analysis also provided the
synthetic reports of the Rating Agencies, Fitch, Moody's and Standards & Poor's, on the
evaluation of the Brazilian sovereign rating. The research aimed to verify whether economic
journalism produced homogeneous symbolic goods and whether economic journalists
disregarded political issues when mediatizing sovereign rating ratings and outlooks for the
financial market, between 2011 and 2017. Through the literature, several grounds for research
were discussed: on the journalistic side, the theoretical acceptations on media effects, the social
production of news, journalists and economics journalists; on the sovereign rating side, the
rating standards of economic variables, the role of metrics in contemporary economics, finance,
ACR's, history and their methodologies. For the research foundation, Bourdieu's theoretical
conceptions of the journalism field, the economic field, symbolic products and symbolic power
were discussed; for the research problem statement, the influence of economic science as the
dominant economic model was highlighted. As methods of analysis, we adhered to the
application of framing and voice analysis to the journalistic publications, and framing to the
ACR's reports. To objectify and compare the space of the framing of the ACR's, the economic
journalism and the voices, the techniques of Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and
descriptive statistical analysis were adopted. In the results, it was observed that among the
communication vehicles there is a categorical homogeneity, which varies from positions and
oppositions of the analysis categories, that is, by distinctions of problems of economic, political,
periods or by voices. A relevant result is the heterogeneity of the digital economy editorship of
Estado de S. Paulo, Estadão Economia, which has dissimilar content, being opposed to other
vehicles, including those of its own category. The analysis of the voices showed that the
newspapers tended to mediatize, most of the time, the voices of professionals and managers of
financial institutions, experts from CRA's, representatives of the government's public
articulation, and economists from business entities. For depoliticization, it was observed that
the vehicles do not dilute the content of the political sphere, on the contrary, it is highly diffused
by economic journalism. By this same result, it was found that there is a strong level of
homology between the economic field and the journalism field, that is, journalists have little
modified the order imposed by the economic field
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