The Time for Regional Press
Just as the use of federal government funds for publicity has become regionalized, access to the press gained the same advantages. Through the Secretary of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic (Secom) began to respond directly to regional vehicles.
This was the case of the “Coffee with the President” and the weekly column that President Lula, and now President Dilma use to respond directly to questions from readers of regional newspapers. Secom now organizes interviews with local radios for all of the trips that Lula and Dilma take around the country.
The Lula and Dilma administrations also elevated in the use of digital media, with the creation of the Blog do Planalto and the Portal Brasil, in addition to the institutional profiles of the Presidency of the Republic in social media such as Twitter and Facebook. The relationship of communicators and this field also started in this period. In an historic event, Lula in the first press conference two independent bloggers in the Palácio do Planalto.