The Job Market for Journalists in Espirito Santo
Name: DEBORA SONEGHETI BONICEGNA
Publication date: 22/12/2023
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| RAFAEL BELLAN RODRIGUES DE SOUZA | Advisor |
Summary: The objective of this research is to investigate the characteristics of the
work for journalists in Espírito Santo. To this end, we conducted interviews
with 13 managers from companies and organizations that employ journalists in
state: private companies, state-owned companies, in the public sector and in
non-profit entities. We seek to understand what the possibilities are
of action for the worker today, how they connect (or if
disconnect) from the traditional ethos of the profession; and how the context of
called ‘new economy’, which configures a new morphology of work
for all workers, it impacts the journalist’s reality. To deal with
journalism, work and territory, the chapters navigate the three fields: that of
theory of journalism, sociology of work and territoriality,
also highlighting the historical conditioning of all processes
studied to the socio-metabolic reproduction system of capital, an issue
transversal throughout the investigation. With the contribution of the work of Adelmo
Genro Filho, we chose to talk about journalism from an ontological perspective,
historical-materialist, which understands it as a form of knowledge
crystallized in the singular with critical-emancipatory potential. In addition to the
ontological debate, we carried out a bibliographical review of research on the
current affairs and challenges in the world of work for journalists amid
technological changes and social phenomena, such as the Journalist Profile
Brazilian. We analyzed the content of the interviews based on categories
themes according to Bardin, without losing sight of the critical and theoretical background
of the research. We found characteristics that define the Espírito Santo market
as a territory of disputes and contradictions, whose configuration distances the
journalist of the original practice and ethics of the profession, generating a process of
reification and estrangement. In accordance with national reality,
we reached a scenario of progressive reduction of jobs in
newsrooms, an increasing downsizing of teams as a consequence
of the economic impacts of the journalism crisis and the structural crisis of
capital. Thus, the press office, marketing, social networks and
communication for companies appear as alternatives for
journalists from Espírito Santo can continue working with an activity that
closer to journalism, even if based on the interests of
corporations.
