As (re)configurações de proximidade em telejornais locais e a pandemia: um estudo sobre usos e apropriações das fontes

Abstract

Coverage of the pandemic represented a change in the production routine of television news, as journalists had to maintain social distance to avoid getting sick. But while reporters and sources, or even journalists and viewers, were distant as a security measure, on the other hand there was a reformulation in the language of television news, with the use of videos, photos and interviews carried out remotely, through the use of mobile phones and with broadcast programs over the Internet. This research intends to understand the (re)configurations in the interviews since Covid-19, using as object the local news of Globo affiliates in the Northeast, especially at noon, focusing on the news produced in the capitals of PB, PE and RN. Based on the Content Analysis of these local news programs as a methodological basis, the types of interviews that continued to be reproduced after the peaks in cases of Covid-19 will be pointed out, namely: remote or face-to-face; synchronous or asynchronous; recorded or live; experts or ordinary people and with local/regional/national/international sources. The concepts of local television news in works by OLIVEIRA FILHO (2019; 2021), MATA (2011) and BAZI (2007; 2009), in addition to the concept of interface in SCOLARI (2018), will be fundamental for building an understanding of these changes. As a hypothesis, we have posited that the concept of proximity in the voices of the local newscast, which has always been fundamental for the construction of meaning in the reports, has become even more fluid and the use of multiple and physically distant voices has become a permanent reality since the pandemic. , causing cheaper production routines and more agility in the process of building reports and the newscast itself.