A Promoção da Transparência Como Estratégia de Afirmação no Mercado das Notícias: Uma Análise aos Projetos de Jornalismo Empreendedor

Luís Bonixe

doi:10.17231/comsoc.46(2024).5703

Authors

Luís Bonixe Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação e da Linguagem, Escola Superior de Educação e Ciências Sociais, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portalegre, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1288-7529

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.46(2024).5703

Keywords:

journalism, transparency, funding, independence, Portugal

Abstract

Promoting transparency is seen as one of the key mechanisms for generating trust in the work of journalists and thereby strengthening democracies. The principle is that making information about media ownership, funding, and editorial decision-making criteria public enhances understanding of the less visible aspects of journalistic production, thus increasing credibility by identifying potential conflicts of interest. In recent years, technological development, particularly the internet’s growing capabilities, coupled with the crisis in journalism’s business models, which is jeopardising traditional funding models, has led to the emergence of entrepreneurial journalistic projects that claim to be alternative and independent. These projects seek to distinguish themselves from mainstream journalism through their structure, funding and ownership models, and they find a strategy for promoting transparency that sets them apart from traditional media. This article aims to identify and analyse the transparency promotion practices of these journalistic projects, relating them to a strategy of affirmation in the news market.

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Author Biography

Luís Bonixe, Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação e da Linguagem, Escola Superior de Educação e Ciências Sociais, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portalegre, Portugal

Luís Bonixe holds a PhD in Communication Sciences, specialising in Journalism, from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is the author of two books on radio journalism and co-author of collective works. He has published numerous chapters and articles in both national and international journals on topics including radio, journalism, local journalism and online journalism. He is a lecturer and researcher in journalism, radio and sound, and media literacy at the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre. He was a founding member and remains an active member of the Radio and Sound Media Working Group of the Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences. He was one of the founders of the REC — Repórteres em Construção project, which brings together several journalism courses across Portugal. He has participated in various national and international project teams related to journalism, the media and media literacy.

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