Empreendedorismo e arranjos alternativos às corporações de mídia como resposta à precarização do trabalho jornalístico: o caso do Acta em Alagoas

Abstract

The world of work and, consequently, the job market for journalists are facing a moment of crisis marked by precariousness, layoffs and a reduction in the number of job vacancies in the newsrooms of large media companies (Mick; Christofoletti; Lima, 2021; Lima; Mike, 2022). Because of this, many journalists are forced to undertake in order to be able to continue working in their area of training. In this context, alternative arrangements to media corporations have emerged, organized in the form of collectives, associations, small companies and startups (Fígaro, 2018). Faced with this problem, this dissertation investigates whether entrepreneurship and alternative arrangements to media corporations are a response to the precariousness of journalists' work. In addition to the bibliographic review, a case study of Acta, a small journalism company founded by journalists who were fired after participating in the journalists' strike in Alagoas, in 2019, was carried out. Based on documentary research, interviews with Acta members and systematic observations, it is intended to understand the functioning of the company and verify if it offers satisfactory conditions for the exercise of the profession, if it has some degree of innovation in products, processes, commercial and financing strategies (Waltz, 2019) or social innovation (Franciscato, 2010), if it is relevant to its interlocutors and if it is financially viable, necessary conditions, albeit not exhaustive, to overcome the problem of precariousness.