GZH e as respostas aos problemas sociais: uma análise das práticas de jornalismo de soluções

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the reports on the GZH website that use solutions journalism, an emerging trend whose guiding principle is to present answers to social problems. Based on a theoretical review, the monograph seeks to contextualize and explain solutions journalism based on the authors Souza (2017), Loose (2019), Farias and Belém (2020), Borges (2021), Oliveira, Pastl and Garcia (2021), Simões (2022) and Santos (2022) as well as exploring other currents that have influenced this type of journalism. The five fundamental characteristics of solutions journalism indicated by the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN), an organization considered a world reference on the subject, are: 1) it focuses deeply on the response to a social problem; 2) it examines how the response works in significant detail; 3) it focuses on effectiveness, not good intentions, presenting available evidence of the results; 4) it offers not only inspiration, but insights that others can use and 5) it discusses what is not working in the approach. Methodologically, we designed a protocol based on these topics that was applied to the corpus of 10 reports produced between May and June 2023 and published under the "Solutions Journalism" tag. The results show that GZH complies with most of the criteria established by the SJN for a production to qualify as solutions journalism. However, we detected that at no time did the vehicle present all five characteristics in the same report.