Livro de crônicas "Jornalismo alagoano e pandemia : crônicas que humanizam a profissão"

Abstract

This work is a technical report that aims to describe and analyze the process of creating a book of chronicles about the work of journalists from Alagoas during the Covid-19 pandemic, which began in March 2020. The final product features 13 chronicles, being the result of 40 interviews, 27 of which were used for the book, in addition to investigations, investigations and personal experiences by the author herself, who appears in two chronicles as a character narrator. Writing the final version of the work began in 2022 and ended in 2023, mainly covering the most critical period of the pandemic and also its end. The research was carried out in person and remotely, including interviews at the journalists' workplaces and online moments through Google Meet and WhatsApp. As a theoretical reference on the chronicle genre, I used studies such as those by Cossari (2004), Lopes (2010) and Siebert (2014), including in my readings the Portal da Crônica Brasileira and texts by authors such as Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Rubem Braga , Eliane Brum, Gay Talese and Machado de Assis. The writing style of the final product resembles that of literary journalism. As a result, the book of chronicles presents a set of texts that bring not only the professional side of journalists, but also, and above all, the human side and the resourcefulness of work amid the new coronavirus pandemic, raising themes such as the precariousness of profession and the overload of communicators.