The feminine in the ⇜reporter book⇝: An epistemological view on gender and journalistic practices

Abstract

This article is part of an exploratory movement from a post-doctoral study. Statements taken from interviews with Eliane Brum, Fabiana Moraes and Alexandra Lucas Coelho, authors of reporter books who integrate the role of subjects and the research corpus, revealed actions of resistance towards the form of journalistic objectification. Journalism was observed through the prism of gender, focusing on discourses from reporters on professional practices that subvert the dominant masculine logic and elaborate an interpretation of journalistic knowledge. A set of practices emerge, identified as feminine, which are inhibited and diminished in the hierarchies of journalistic values. It provides a more complex lens for observing reality and subjects; it demonstrates the inability of journalistic objectification, forged in the nineteenth century, for reading in the twenty-first century world. It suggests thinking about new and necessary eyes through which to see journalistic practices and the criticism of journalism.