Telejournalism beyond TV: A discussion about the news’s contemporary territories

Abstract

In this article we discuss about contemporary telejournalism, from the understanding that, when going through processes of convergence, it is no longer limited to the television environment. As it is inserted in the virtual environment, it breaks with the hegemonic territory of origin, becomes a digital object and seeks to occupy other spaces and platforms, incorporating crossmedia and transmedia narratives to inform. From a theoretical-conceptual approach, it is discussed how the telejournalistic contents transformed into digital objects shelters, circulates and floats through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The transition process faced by TV as a territory to receive and distribute information in homes, confronted by the emergence of digital media, brings with it a counter force, and spread these contents in different spaces, in a deterritorializing news agency. Therefore, the communication groups seek to reach the audience where it is, by means of varied stimuli, which also modifies the viewer's individual into a convergent viewer.