Enquadramento jornalístico no retrato: as fontes populares nas fotografias do Diário Gaúcho

Abstract

This research aims to investigate how portraits of popular sources on the Diario Gaucho are made, a popular newspaper launched in 2000 by RBS Group in Rio Grande do Sul. From bibliographic and exploratory research we conducted ethnography, watching the work of editors, photographers and reporters for five days in indoor and outdoor activities. In the account ofobservations and conversations with professionals in the newsroom, along with photographs that record the team's work, pictures that were followed in the productionand editing are analyzed. From this information, we developed categories in which we have our appropriations and tensions allocated: the environment, the subject, the agenda, history, social problems, graphic space and the quest for visibility. The notes allowed the identification of the journalistic framing in the picture, thinking this way the photographic picture as a space for production of senses. We found that the popular sources are often related to agendas that deal withsocial problems and the images show the lived dramas, a way that the paper finds to touch society and seek solutions. The newspaper maintains a very close relationship with its sources and worries about building a positive image of those subjects, enhancing thus the spontaneous gestures. Showing the environment where these sources are located is also a constant target, although the spaces of graphic design destinated for photography are often reduced. In articles of service, those subjects are still transformed into instruments of instrction to readers, serving as an example to explaining matters, especially in the images, sincethe popular journalism believes in visual resources to communicate with its audience.