Além das mídias: o que os livros revelam sobre as práticas de repórteres internacionais

Abstract

The main theme of this Masters Thesis is the international reporters' practices, a concept that encompasses professionals from different categories such as the international correspondents, the special envoys and the war correspondents. The mapping of these practices focused on studies already published about these branches of journalism and in books with the memories and the experiences of the reporters in different times, places and coverages between the years of 1917 and 2011. These books that were written by journalists reveal themselves as another legitimate space to produce journalism beyond the traditional means like newspapers, radio and television when they allow their own authors to perform the interpretation and comment about the practice. Through these materials, we work on observations that involve the different phases of the profession, the impact derived from the rise of new information technologies and the interference of this evolution in the set of practices and processes of the international reporters. The thesis also contemplates problematic issues related to the glamorous idealization of the profession, to the critical view of these journalists based on new formats of journalism and, mainly, the practice of coverage determined from the concept of circularity in the processes of production of journalistic content. Besides contributing to the studies that involve the practice, it intends to serve as an element of understanding of the political and economical scenarios that involve the profession of international reporter.