Práticas jornalísticas premiadas e a revitalização do discurso noticioso no contexto das relações comunicativas

Abstract

This thesis was outlined to identify award-winning practices, relate them to the revitalization of journalism in the context of communicative relations. There are those who point out crises in journalistic practices, although the awards suggest new communicational configurations. Given this issue, research is conducted on the problem of "How and why can international award-winning practices be reflected in the reconfiguration of news discourse?" The research method used was exploratory, qualitative, and bibliographic on communicative discourse and its relationship with the Sigma Awards, International Center for Journalists ICFJ Knight, World Association of News Publishers WAN-IFRA Digital Media and Kings of Spain awards in the years 2020 to 2022. Drawing on theorizations by Martín-Barbero and Landowski, a relational Map was proposed that served for analysis, localization, and visualization when investigating a contemporary phenomenon that required multiple sources of evidence. The research involved twelve illustrative case studies, the analysis of the news discourses of 41 international awards and 25 Brazilian finalists and winners of international awards. We tested the hypothesis that a reconfiguration of the journalistic discourse is underway, mainly through digital communication, which may lead to a revitalization, and this becomes noticeable through the international awards. It was found that the relational Map proved to be valid for the analysis of the communicational and journalistic crisis and the visualization of the findings. Of the previous problems, the empirical ones showed disinformation, sensationalism, negativism, dehumanization, and abuse of power, while the preliminary problem of consumerism did not appear in the awards. It is suggested that crises are more related to the traditional configuration of journalism, which is facing an accelerated reconfiguration that mainly involves digital news and requires new conceptions, new business models, innovative technologies, etc. The new news configurations can be related to the awards. In the specific cut of the corpus of national practices, there are few Brazilian winning news projects, especially as finalists, which serves as an incentive. The data analyzed allow us to suggest that there is a relationship between the awards and revitalization. The international winning journalistic practices have the potential to contribute to the reconfiguration of the news discourse in the communication landscape, although there is no way to determine the level of this contribution. By means of discourse analysis, it is evident that the award winners develop themes that reflect current media actuality and that the case studies illustrate the application of the Relational Map, which allows the visualization of the findings. It is suggested that the following communicational propositions constitute alternative solutions regarding journalistic problems: news regulation (misinformation, abuse of power); comprehensive view of communication (abuse of power, misinformation); critical reception (negativism); Internet as a new public space (negativism); counterhegemonic forms (dehumanization); news citizenship (dehumanization); citizen enterprise (sensationalism); ecology (sensationalism). It is thus concluded that, despite the communicative crises, there is evidence that international awards contribute to the revitalization of the news discourse.