Desenvolvimento e jornalismo : a estratégia produtiva da agência pública na perspectiva da informação como fator de expansão das liberdades.

Abstract

This study aims to understand the productive strategy of Agência Pública in the perspective of information as a factor for development. Development is understood as the guarantee of five instrumental freedoms, as Amartya Sen (2010) suggests: political freedoms, social opportunities, economic facilities, guarantees of transparency and protective security. According to the author, several institutions in society must work to guarantee these freedoms, among them the media, which does it through the information that clears and leads to its public. Journalism practiced by the hegemonic media, concentrated in communication conglomerates in Brazil and in the world, in turn, has political and economic ties with advertisers, which directly interferes with the content that it produces and, consequently, forms public opinion. Throughout the last century, from historical and cultural events, appeared journalistic initiatives that were placed as an alternative to this model. In this wake, appears in 2011 the Agência Pública, which says to make a journalism of public interest and that makes possible the democratic debate. Based on these understandings, the question was posed as a problem for this research: what is the productive strategy of the Agência Pública from the perspective of information as a factor for development? In order to answer this question and to reach the specific objectives established, we made use of a theoretical-methodological protocol proposed by Richard Johnson (2010), the culture circuit. The cultural circuit comprises the process of cultural production in four interconnected moments: production, texts, readings and social relations / lived cultures. As a methodological clipping, this study stopped in the first two moments, but not without observing the others, since circuit understands that one moment reflects in the other and, therefore, it does not have a beginning and an end. Public production strategy was analyzed through the report Sob a fumaça, a dependência - which approached tobacco production in southern Brazil - and systematic observation of the other reports published on the agency's website in 2015 and 2016. Data collection Was given through interviews with professionals involved in the process, bibliographic research, and documentary analysis. The research verified that the productive strategy of Public differs from the hegemonic vehicles at the moment of production of the circuit, more specifically by its production conditions, such as the fact that it does not have advertisers, to investigate only the subject of human rights and to give space to the sources Individual and less official at the expense of the officers, which reflects in a more critical angulation in the report. These production conditions, in turn, are reflected in the text moment, in which the result of these characteristics can be observed in the selected report. Finally, it was observed that this productive strategy allows the expansion of the five instrumental freedoms pointed out by Sen and, consequently, contributes to the development process by means of information that prioritizes what is of public interest and a journalism committed to its function social.