Modern press that arises at the same time to modern city sought the drama of news as the element to differentiate it from other forms of telling the city. As entertainment business company, this new press was able to explore the interest of readers about the distant, eccentric, and of course the crime, to boost their sales. With a new form of narrative and with the reporter - a new character of the city - the modern press will claim primacy in dealing with urban issues and violent phenomena that occurred in its space. This paper proposes the analytical reconstruction of this perspective that came to preside over the representations of the city in the early twentieth century. If nowadays the imaginations built about the Rio de Janeiro are marked by war vocabulary and by the idea of a divided city, in the last century, the social integration of the city was thought primarily through the cultural field. That moment, reporters were those who tried to translate and integrate the urban world offering an image in which the locals recognized themselves and which, even today, we deal with it.