Reconfigurações de práticas no telejornalismo do Maranhão na pandemia da Covid-19

Abstract

ABSTRACT

This research aims to understand the changes in maranhense regional telejournalism during the Covid-19 pandemic, a phenomenon still ongoing. In this scenario of transformation in production routines, the question that guides the study seeks to register if the news production, in the context of health crisis, is resignifying traditional methods of production and dissemination of facts. The research investigates the news production process in the news program Bom Dia Mirante of TV Mirante, a Rede Globo affiliate in Maranhão. To this end, the period from March 02, 2020 to February 28, 2022 is analyzed to identify new practices that have emerged in the production routine as a result of social distancing and prevention measures. In addition, it will observe the uses and appropriations of journalists in relation to digital devices in the production of news; and it will also register the perceptions of professionals about the new routine in this period. In the light of the theories of Newsmaking (WOLF, 2001) and Gatekeeping (SHOEMAKER, 2011), the study analyzes how events become news and, supported by Becker (2016), we observe the reinvention of television news nowadays. This is a qualitative research that also takes advantage of participant observation (PERUZZO, 2005) and the in-depth interview technique (DUARTE, 2010) carried out with professionals of the area who work in the production routine of Bom Dia Mirante. We conclude, then, that the pandemic changed traditional practices in the production routine of the news program, such as the exacerbated use of audiovisual materials produced by sources and viewers, far beyond spontaneous submissions. There was also the adoption of online interviews in the program, in addition to WhatsApp as the main tool for internal communication, with sources and audience, for sending collaborative material. The study also identified that telejournalism adapts to the most adverse conditions imposed to fulfill its social role of informing, signaling new formats that should remain after seven decades of crystallized practices in Brazilian journalism.