This article, of qualitative nature, aims to investigate the ideas of children regarding news production and generate didactic situations that promote critical reading of the media. This paper focuses on the discursive knowledges and lines of progression of the conceptualizations regarding production and circulation of news of sixth grade students from the City of Buenos Aires. Children notice the requirements for a fact to be newsworthy, but fail to elucidate that news are subjected to selection processes and media development.