The journalists and a profession in mutation: The voices of the professionals of a Curitiba radio1

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyze the changes that took place in a radiophonic context in the face of a scenario of media convergence, which is linked to economic, social and productive transformations. As a theoretical basis, two basic concepts were used: media convergence, in its multidimensional approach (Fidler, 1997; Jenkins, 2009) and the journalism theory of Newsmaking (Wolf, 1997; Pena, 2005). The empirical basis used for the analysis was composed of nine semi-open interviews with current and former journalists from CNB-Curitiba. As a main result, it was identified that the productive changes are driven not only by the insertion of digital technologies in the daily routine, but also by economic and political interests, which interfere considerably in the practice of these professionals.