Jornalismo de dados em veículos locais : o uso de bases de dados na cobertura da pandemia em Cuiabá (MT)

Abstract

This research analyzes the current situation of the use of data and databases in journalism in Cuiabá (MT), in particular related to the paradigm of Digital Journalism in Databases (Barbosa; Torres, 2013), during the Covid-19 pandemic. The methodology consists of using the Journalistic Coverage Analysis Protocol (Silva; Maia, 2011) to study journalistic products that used databases on the pandemic in January 2020 and January 2021 on the sites Olhar Direto and Midianews. In-depth and semi-structured interviews (Duarte, 2004) were also carried out with journalists who participated in the coverage of the pandemic in digital vehicles in Cuiabá between the years 2020 and 2021, with attention to dialogicity and dialecticity between researcher and interviewees (Marques; Martino, 2017). The investigation focuses on the context of Data Journalism in a broader way, crossed by phenomena such as platformization, from a perspective on colonialism and colonialities, according to the proposals of Quijano (1992), Maldonado-Torres (2018), Ballestrin (2013) and with the perspective of data colonialities (Ricaurte, 2019), in addition to the territorialities involved in these communication processes based on the scales and necessary adaptations to concepts and practices. The data obtained and analyzed reveal fundamental aspects of the culture and organizations that operate in this local ecosystem. The lack of structure is articulated with self-education, in the appropriation of tools of a possible Data-Guided Journalism, and the use of data is seen as a collaborating element of a professional ethos. The professionals interviewed demonstrate that the processes of oppression do not arrive unnoticed and without resistance, they point to cracks being (and to be) filled, even if they require collective organization to do so.