for weeks before the opening of the carnaval, newspapers and magazines provide coverage for a variety of related topics.

strategy of the samba schools, themes, problems, competitions to get voted as queen, passista, or any other position, and more.

furthermore, there are a variety of magazines that cover specifically samba and the carnaval world in rio, where to find in-depth coverage throughout the year.

all rio de janeiro newspapers have a section dedicated to carnival, always easily identifiable via the tabs on the top of the main page - the main newspaper available online with a specific carnaval sections is the jornal o globo.