A monotematização da cobertura jornalística da Covid-19 no Jornal Nacional e Jornal da Record

Abstract

This article aims tounderstand the journalistic processes of coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic by Jornal Nacional on TV Globo and Jornal da Record, on Record TV. The time frame for analysis began on January 18 to May 15, 2020, directing journalistic attention to the construction of a monothematic coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. We believe that this monothematization process changed not only the coverage itself, but the audience, as well as an erasure of other events due to this health crisis. As a research method, we triedto use bibliographic, exploratory and Content Analysis (CA) techniques, based on the reports, in order to verify how the health and political crises intermingled and became a political crisis. public health. Thus, we understand that monothematic news coverage on TV has altered both the choice of themes to be shown on the news, as well as the viewing of a news program with the characteristics of a thematic journalistic program, such as Globo Repórter or Repórter Record.