This research is based on Systemic-Funcional Linguistics (SFL) and Corpus Linguistics, and aims at the investigation of the image of journalists construed in the press. Journalists are, by definition, storytellers, not characters; they are supposed to relate the facts neutrally, without expressing opinions. Their expected role is the one of the impartial observer of reality. However, linguistic studies have demonstrated that there is no such thing as a neutral text. The facts that will be told in the story are sellected, and beyond that, discursive choices themselves convey ideas and beliefs. In this research, the analysis of news texts is based on Systemic-Functional Linguistics (Halliday 1994, 2003) which makes it possible to characterize the image of journalists that is projected by the discursive choices found in the analyzed stories. One way to investigate those choices is through Corpus Linguistics (cf. Hunston 2002, Hoey 2006, Stubbs 2006), that allows the study of a great number of texts, widening the analytical possibilities. The corpus used in this research is composed of 1.050 news stories published in three Brazilian newspapers and collected through the Internet and library archives, during two specific socio-historical moments: the first month of the invasion of Iraq led by the USA, in 2003, and the FIFA World Cup in Germany, in 2006. The texts collected had the journalists or the journalistic activity as subjects. The time periods were chosen considering that, during wars and international sports competitions, there is a higher concentration of news stories about journalists. The analysis was based on the collocation of the words jornalista(s); besides locating and attempting to classify each occurrence of these words, according to the experiencial metafunction (Halliday & Matthiessen 2004), an attempt was also made to identify and classify the processes used with them. Results indicate that journalists usually constitute a distinct group, apart from the general public, and also from supporters and viewers (in the World Cup), and from civilians and soldiers (in the War). At the same time, their human side is apparent, during the World Cup, when they laugh at jokes, complain about results, help their colleagues; in the War, this human side is even clearer, in face of constant risk and dangerous and fearful situations. Above all, journalists are represented through idealized characteristics, as professionals who raise reactions in the public, work under harsh conditions, and stop at nothing to do their job.