The article discusses the importance of the work developed by Monteiro Lobato in the press, focusing on the territory where he started his activities: the Parayba Valley. The approach herein is to explore a facet of the writer still little described in the academic field, i. e., the journalistic activity that preceded his trajectory as a writer. Supported by bibliographic research, this text
... [Show full abstract] points out, in a summary way, the publications of the referred region that counted with the contribution of the journalist/writer, signalizing particularities of his performance in this context.