Favelas in the intrigues of a news bulletin: The case of Parceiros do MGTV

Authors

  • Bruno Souza Leal Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  • Pedro Lucchesi Loures UFMG

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2018.201.05

Abstract

This article develops an analytical exercise about a news program identity, based on a double movement. First, it promotes a general characterization of the first and – up to 2016 – only edition of Parceiros do MGTV, including general data on topics and editorial choices, confronting it with recurrent ways of informing about the favelas in the Brazilian journalism. Then we observe three of its news stories more closely. The movement between the macro and micro scales let us see that the innovation effort that justifies Parceiros do MGTV was offset by the traditional patterns of the television news, which led the favelas to emerge in these narratives as if in opposition (or resistance) to the news bulletin. Thus, the news bulletin can be seen as having an unstable identity, far away from what is said in its editorial line.

Keywords: television, news, narrative, favelas.

Author Biographies

Bruno Souza Leal, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa 2 é pesquisador permanente do PPGCOM/UFMG, na linha de pesquisa "Textualidades midiáticas". Coordena o Núcleo de Estudos Tramas Comunicacionais: Narrativa e Experiência, tendo integrado o NUH - Núcleo de Direitos Humanos e Cidadania LGBT da UFMG e os grupos de pesquisa Poéticas da Experiência e Gris/UFMG, Seus trabalhos compreendem pesquisas sobre o jornalismo, a narrativa, a homocultura, a experiência estética e a televisão. Possui graduação em Comunicação Social, mestrado e doutorado em Estudos Literários pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e pós-doutorado em Ciências da Comunicação pela Unisinos. Foi presidente da Associação Brasileira de Estudos da Homocultura - Abeh (2004/2006), coordenador do curso de graduação e da Especialização em Comunicação/UFMG e coordenador do PPGCOM/UFMG (biênio 2008-2010). Atualmente, é pesquisador do CNPq e integra o Programa Pesquisador Mineiro (Fapemig).

Pedro Lucchesi Loures, UFMG

Pedro Lucchesi Loures é jornalista e pesquisador do Núcleo de Estudos Tramas Comunicacionais: Narrativa e Experiência/UFMG

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Published

2018-06-21

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 1 (2018): January/April

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