Jornalismo ambiental: (ir)regularidade de publicação de matérias versus valores - notícia no Jornal Notícias

Abstract

The preservation of the environment has been the subject of debate worldwide, mainly from the second half of the 20th century onwards due to the notability of its degradation. From this point onwards, in that period, environmental issues began to fill international political agendas and also aroused interest in the field of technology and science, giving rise to various branches for the study and mitigation of the impacts of human actions on the environment. It was in this context that environmental journalism emerged as a branch of journalism. Later, a debate arises, on the one hand those who defend that environmental journalism tends to extinction due to the weak interest and concern of the subjects that sell the most by the media. On the other hand, those who argue that environmental journalism tends to become even stronger due to environmental problems that tend to get worse. At the same time, the issue of questioning the incidence of news values in Environmental Journalism emerges. It is in this context that the need arises to study the topic of environmental journalism in relation to news values and the debate on the extinction of environmental journalism. In other words, the need arises to relate the publication of articles about the environment, criteria used for selection of facts and the debate on the extinction of environmental journalism in order to understand the irregularity in the publication of articles about the environment in the Mozambican media. In order to understand the phenomenon, Jornal Notícias, the newspaper with the largest circulation in Mozambique and which has a section dealing with the environment, was used. For this, in terms of methodologies, a mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative) and the techniques of content analysis and interview were used. The theory of newsmaking was also used with the components of newsworthiness criteria and/or news values. This time it can be seen that as for articles about the environment the journal is regular and it was also noted that Jornal Notícias respects news values when it comes to environmental matters and that Environmental Journalism is not extinct in the organ