Como se faz uma reportagem | How a news story is made

O António Granado referiu esta iniciativa da Wired que vem um pouco ao encontro de algo que já defendi algumas vezes, quer no blog, quer em algumas discussões. Mas, antes de mais, é necessária uma pequena explicação. A Wired criou um blog que descreve o processo de uma reportagem sobre o argumentista/realizador Charlie Kaufman, o que, para quem conhece o personagem, faz todo o sentido por levantar a cortina sobre algo que a maioria não vê. Desde a reunião inicial sobre a criação do blog e da “venda” do artigo aos editores (ver video), até à definição da reportagem, tudo está à mostra para quem quiser seguir os processos deste trabalho. Eu ando com uma ideia semelhante há já algum tempo,e falei um pouco disso neste post: porque não mostrar o processo, com os devidos cuidados, de pesquisa e construção de uma reportagem? Com quem e como se falou, a que dados e documentos se teve acesso, etc. No Summer Institute discuti isso com o Professor Rosental Alves, que levantou dois pontos pertinentes contra: o trabalho do jornalista ficaria debaixo de uma lupa enorme, e poderiam expor-se indevidamente algumas partes do processo que fazem parte da “alma” do negócio. De qualquer forma, acho que se poderia tornar numa maneira muito interessante de tornar o trabalho jornalístico mais transparente, e demonstrar que tipo de dificuldades os jornalistas encontram no seu dia a dia. Duas redacções já fizeram algo semelhante: o Spokesman-Review e o Liverpool Daily Post.

António Granado shared this Wired venture that kind of meets something i have defended sometimes here at the blog, and in some conversations. But, before carrying on, a short explanation is due. Wired created a blog that describes the process of building a story about screenwriter/ director Charlie Kaufman, which, for those who know the character, makes perfect sense by lifting the veil on something that most people can´t see. From the original meeting where the creation of the blog was discussed along with pitching the story to the editors (watch video) to the shaping of the story, everything is for our eyes to see. I’ve been holding on to a similar idea for quite some time now, and i wrote a bit about it in this post: why not showing the process, with the needed precautions, of research and construction of a news story? With whom and how we talked, to which data and documents we had access, etc. At the Summer Institute i discussed this with Professor Rosental Alves, who raised two relevant points against: the work of the journalist would be under this giant magnifying glass, and some parts of the process that are the “soul” of the trade might be wrongfully exposed. Anyway, i think this could be a rather interesting way of making the journalists’ work more transparent, and show the amount of hardships they have to face on a daily basis. Two newsrooms have already done something like this: the Spokesman-Review and the Liverpool Daily Post.

What Is This?

An almost-real-time, behind-the-scenes look at the assigning, writing, editing, and designing of a Wired feature. You can see more about the design process on Wired creative director Scott Dadich’s SPD blog, The Process. This is a one-time experiment, tied solely to the Charlie Kaufman profile scheduled to run in our November 08 issue.

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STORYBOARD- A profile of a profile of Charlie Kauffman