CONSTRUCTIVE AND POSITIVE JOURNALISM: ANALYSIS ON GENRE, SOURCES AND NEWS VALUES

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.216272218044

• Palavras-chave: constructive journalism; positive journalism; alternative journalism; negativity; content analysis.

• Keywords: constructive journalism; positive journalism; alternative journalism; negativity; content analysis.

• Abstract:

  Positivity and constructiveness are values that have come to be evoked in journalism in order to oppose the negativity perceived in hegemonic practices. In the present article, we identify some of the characteristics of this approach, based on the content analysis of the newspapers Positive News, Reset and Muda Tudo (self-styled exponents of constructive journalism) and the Good Story of the Week session of the Fox News Rundown podcast (understood as something similar to to positive journalism). These characteristics are also compared with those present in theoretical studies about traditional journalism, allowing an analysis of the alternativity preached by these vehicles, which was verified mainly in the themes addressed and in part in the applied genres. Meanwhile, the sources maintain the characteristic of being primarily institutional and the news values can be perceived among those already mentioned in relation to traditional journalism. 

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