The 2019 second issue of Brazilian Journalism Research deals with 'Journalism Research in Brazil, France and Belgium'. The theme of this issue follows the trajectory of this international collaboration, which dates back to the late 1990s, and gave rise to the 1st Brazil-France-Francophone Belgium Journalism Research Conference: The Sociocultural Frontiers of Journalism in Brazil and in Francophone space in November 2018, held in São Paulo and organized by the Brazilian Association of Journalism

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... Researchers (SBPJor), which also edits the BJR. This issue starts with two articles that look at the main challenges that face this kind of joint action. In the short essay 'Brazil, France, Belgium and other Francophone Countries: research relations and knowledge building in journalism', Zélia Leal Adghirni, a retired professor from the University of Brasilia, pieces together the history of journalism research in francophone countries, an area to which she has dedicated most of her time. This collaboration began about twenty years ago, with the creation of the Journalism Studies Network, which brought together researchers and research centers from France, Brazil and Quebec/Canada, and served as the basis for a series of arrangements, exchanges and international and collective research projects. The second article, 'Brazil, Belgium, and France: avenues for comparison work', was written by Florence Le Cam from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Based on her own personal experience, she points to research practices that would be capable of subsidizing comparison works between these three countries. She closes the article by highlighting the political and scientific importance of international collaboration in journalism research. Two empirical works conclude the issue. In 'When Journalists and Marketers Negotiate: a competency-based analysis of negotiation