Jornalismo e ativismo: Um repórter português do lado russo da guerra na Ucrânia

Abstract

This article proposes a thinking of the journalistic act as a theory of action, capable of responding to an analysis of the intersections between activism and journalism, by decomposing the individual and collective actantial dimensions of journalism, and the endogenous and exogenous interactions that shape and condition journalistic production. The case of Bruno Amaral de Carvalho, a Portuguese freelance journalist who, in 2022, spent more than half a year working on the Russian side of the war in Ukraine, is treated from a critical analysis of the discourse produced on Facebook by the reporter, during this period, and from a sample of works published on the CNN Portugal website. It investigates, from the theoretical confrontation with the peace journalism model (Galtung, 2003) and with visibility as a political concept (Brighenti, 2007), the feasibility or unfeasibility of individual agency of a journalistic act capable of overcoming invisibilities of causes and victims, thus contributing to the emergence of peacebuilding processes.