Television newscast news production: the transformation of the news process and professional routines

Abstract

Journalism dynamics have been modified due to the insertion of the audience in the production process by means of participatory journalism. In that light, it is important to ask: in what ways could the participation of the audience modify the production process of reports and the professional routines of journalists? This work focuses on a TV newscast broadcast by the RJTV (Rede Globo Rio de Janeiro), called “Parceiro do RJ” – in which pairs of young participants took part in the process of news production – and it was chosen to be the empirical object of this study. The objective of this work is to analyze the ways in which the participants act, by pointing out the differences among them in their production of the newscast reports. The theoretical background was provided by various authors in the area of genre studies, participatory journalism, and quality. The empirical object was analyzed by means of videos based on the method of “Addressing Modes” (GOMES, 2011), as well as interviews performed with newscast representatives during a visit to the Brazilian television organization’s headquarters.