Humanitarian journalism: escape route for covering the migration issue

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.929262230082

• Palavras-chave: Humanitarian journalism. Humanitarian crises. Forced migrations. Refugees.

• Keywords: Humanitarian journalism. Humanitarian crises. Forced migrations. Refugees.

• Abstract:

  This research arises from the realization of the urgency of a journalistic practice capable of reducing the invisibility of populations that face forced migration, one of the faces of the humanitarian crisis. Thus, its objective is to identify how humanitarian journalism can contribute to removing the suffering of refugees and migrants from the media, political and social oblivion. As a methodological procedure, a quantitative analysis of the articles published in the portals of El País Brasil and BBC Brasil was adopted. Thirty-nine articles from the international editorship of the online versions of these two vehicles were collected and analyzed, which allowed us to observe a reduced number of news and reports, contrasting with the magnitude and social relevance of the problem.