O lado oculto do Telejornalismo

Ano: 2006 | Volume: 2 | Número: 1

Autores: A. Vizeu

Resumo Inglês:

It is not common for television professionals to follow the research
path in order to achieve better refl ection regarding their practices. This
could be explained by the dynamics peculiar to telejournalism, which
implies making fast decisions, editing against the clock and working in
groups, in a kind of exhausting activity most of the time. The same thing
happens with the teaching of telejournalism in the universities, because
it is based on technical rather than theoretical works, on the use of
writing and editing manuals. This kind of teaching occurs partly because
of the pressure brought by students, who are eager to acquire new skills
involving multi-modal texts, in addition to the techniques of ordinary
written texts. Therefore, it is very rewarding when a journalist goes
further and off ers a good theoretical contribution to the comprehension
of what is news on TV