{{Short description|Brazilian news magazine}} {{Infobox magazine | title = CartaCapital | image_file =Plenário do Senado (26386481013).jpg | image_size = 280px | image_caption = Senator Vanessa Grazziotin shows printed material from Carta Capital magazine. | editor = Mino Carta | editor_title = Editor | publisher = Editora Basset | paid_circulation = 2.919 (2021)<ref>{{cite web| title= Revistas em 2021: impresso cai 28%; digital retrai 21%|url= https://www.poder360.com.br/midia/revistas-em-2021-impresso-cai-28-digital-retrai-21/ |website=Poder360 |language= pt}}</ref> | unpaid_circulation = | circulation_year = 2007 | country = Brazil | based = Santana de Parnaíba, São Paulo | firstdate = August 1994 | language = Portuguese | category = Politics, economy | frequency = Weekly | website = [http://www.cartacapital.com.br/ www.cartacapital.com.br] }}
'''''CartaCapital''''' is a weekly Brazilian newsmagazine published in Santana de Parnaíba, São Paulo and João Pessoa, Paraíba and distributed throughout the country by Editora Basset.<ref>{{cite web|title=CartaCapital (Brazil) - Illustrations|url=https://www.behance.net/gallery/20791749/CartaCapital-(Brazil)-Illustrations|work=Behance|accessdate=8 August 2015}}</ref> The main focuses of the magazine are politics, economy, social issues and culture.
==History== ''CartaCapital'' was created as a monthly magazine in 1994 by Mino Carta,<ref name=chb>{{cite book|author1=Christina Holtz-Bacha|author2=Jesper Strömbäck|title=Opinion Polls and the Media: Reflecting and Shaping Public Opinion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WXiUiVxLO1kC&pg=PA148|accessdate=8 August 2015|date=5 April 2012|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-37493-5|page=148}}</ref> an Italo-Brazilian journalist. In 1968, Carta founded Brazil's leading newsmagazine ''Veja'' alongside Victor Civita. Eight years later, he founded ''IstoÉ'', another popular newsmagazine. Unsatisfied with the result of the magazines he helped to create, Carta founded ''CartaCapital'' as an alternative to these. ''CartaCapital'' is noted for its small crew; it only has eleven journalists.
The magazine was published on a monthly until 1996 when its frequency was switched to biweekly.<ref name=chb/> Its frequency was changed to weekly in 2002. The magazine is known for supporting causes such as both of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's candidacies, the legalization of abortion in all cases, the maintenance of the current age of criminal responsibility and the extradition of Cesare Battisti to Italy, among other polemic issues. Carta argues that the magazine does it to avoid hiding in a curtain of impartiality and not being honest to its readers.
''CartaCapital'' is a declared left-wing publication{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} but has in its staff Antonio Delfim Netto, Minister of Economy during the right-wing military dictatorship. Besides his participation in a right-wing government, Antonio Delfim Netto is a Keynesian.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}
The magazine openly supported Dilma Rousseff's government, although the article in which Mino Carta put and explained his position was later removed without notice.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cartacapital.com.br/app/materia.jsp?a=2&a2=8&i=7214|title=Carta Capital|website=CartaCapital|language=Portuguese|url-status=dead|access-date=2017-03-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101018234230/http://www.cartacapital.com.br/app/materia.jsp?a=2&a2=8&i=7214|archive-date=2010-10-18}}</ref>
''CartaCapital'' also publishes an educational magazine titled ''Carta na Escola'' on a monthly basis. It is dedicated to teachers, advising them on how to discuss the news with their students.
==Recent circulation history== {| class="wikitable center" ! Year !! 2015 !! 2016 !! 2017 !! 2018 !! 2019 !! 2020 !! 2021 |-align="center" ! Total circulation |{{formatnum:21877}} || N/A || {{formatnum:17139}} || {{formatnum:26709}} || N/A || {{formatnum:17039}} || {{formatnum:2919}} |}
==Notable contributors== {{div col|colwidth=22em}} *Márcio Alemão *Paulo Henrique Amorim *Nirlando Beirão *Cesar Calejon *Wálter Fanganiello Maierovitch *Antônio Delfim Netto *José Onofre *Sócrates *Pedro Alexandre Sanches *Ana Paula Sousa *Drauzio Varella *Thomaz Wood Jr. *Maurício Dias *Jean Wyllys *Vladimir Safatle *Djamila Ribeiro {{div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.cartacapital.com.br/}} {{inlang|pt}} *[http://www.cartanaescola.com.br/ ''Carta na Escola'' official website] {{inlang|pt}} *{{Threads}} {{in lang|pt}}
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