The journalist between the profession and the newspaper's interests : values and routines in the production of Folha De S. Paulo’s Editorials

Mont'Alverne, Camila and Athanásio, Ester and Marques, Francisco Paulo Jamil (2018) The journalist between the profession and the newspaper's interests : values and routines in the production of Folha De S. Paulo’s Editorials. Brazilian Journalism Research, 14 (2). pp. 384-411. ISSN 1981-9854 (https://doi.org/10.25200/BJR.v14n2.2018.1088)

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Abstract

Notwithstanding journalistic editorials may evidence conflicts and negotiations involving public and private interests, their production process is little investigated in Brazil. The article examines the values and routines typical to the work of Folha de S. Paulo’s editorialists to find out how they construct newspaper’s positions. By applying Content Analysis to three in-depth interviews, we propose four thematic axes regarding the features of journalistic editorials: Political and marketing roles; their target audience; production routines; and editorial values of the newspaper. The results indicate that editorialists exercise limited autonomy, striving to fit the positions historically defended by the publication. Such a condition is seen as natural by the interviewees, with no record of tensions between their individual opinions and newspaper’s positions.

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