Jornalismo de dados sobre a Covid-19 em Sergipe : uma reflexão sobre números da pandemia como objeto jornalístico

Abstract

The present final paper approach three moments: to present the documentary research referring to data published in two local news portals regarding the Covid-19 pandemic in Sergipe, in the first three months, to compare them with those of the same period of the following two years, investigate whether there were errors or failures in the dissemination of this data and understand how the dynamics of coverage of pandemic data was. In addition to fulfilling a social and continuous role of mediating and informing, we consider that during a historical moment, however tragic, journalism needed to unfold in the newsrooms in the execution of the work of informing. We will point out how the findings of the data reported by the portals were explored, their inconsistencies and their importance for the narrative of the reports in the midst of the pandemic situation, and how the data influenced the journalistic routine of the News studied in this research. Next, we will reflect on the role of journalism as a professional activity whose primary function is to collect, investigate, analyze and present news, and therefore, the agent that actually proposes to present and report and interpret data to be reported on its portals and to be the agent that actually delivers news from society that seeks the real numbers about the pandemic, thus becoming yet another criterion for reporting, consolidating the relevance of disclosing news related to the Covid-19 pandemic itself, displaying numbers almost daily that impact the journalistic routine during its publication and datafication on the platforms of the analyzed news portals.