As fontes populares na cobertura sobre segurança da CBN Rio

The article analyzes the interaction with listeners in the radiojournalism of CBN Rio de Janeiro on the security theme and how the common citizen is selected from the complexification of the popular source’s concept for the local news. The multi-methodological perspective is used to collect the audios of the program over the course of a week along with a systematic observation and interviews with the professionals of the station, focusing on the form of reliability exercised and the values shared by the journalists in the choice of voices. It differentiates the concepts of interaction, access and participation, as well as the variables that lead to the absence of the common citizen even with access to platforms from the digital culture.