Vinte anos do Estatuto do Idoso

This article aims to analyze how the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, in its print and digital versions, covered the Statute of the Elderly in its news coverage between October 2003 and January 2019. The Statute of the Elderly, which turned 20 years old in October 2023, is a significant event that, despite being little remembered by the newspaper, triggers, in its reports, the collective memory (HALBWACHS, 1990) regarding the importance of the achievement of fundamental rights for the elderly by Brazilian men and women over 60 years of age. The qualitative analysis focuses on memory studies and the wording of the articles (titles) and their graphic design, that is, their spatial positioning (in the print newspaper); and their volume, or the number of characters each text received (in the digital version). We conclude that, despite their small number, the articles published in both versions of O Estado de S. Paulo received prominence (print) and a high volume of characters (digital).