COVID-19, Inequality(s) and Media: Some approaches in journalistic narratives about the pandemic in Brazil

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the multiple layers of inequality that affect the populations of dozens of countries around the world, particularly in the territories of the so-called Global South. In Brazil, vulnerabilities in the pandemic context were widely reported by the media, encouraging public debate on the topic. Based on a cartography of media narratives, published both by traditional media and by independent collectives, this work aims to problematize some approaches to inequality (and its characters) present in journalistic reports in the light of the so-called “subjectivity journalism”. This way of carrying out journalistic practice, more aligned with a relational paradigm of communication, with a closer look at otherness and a positioning in the face of the reported facts, seems to us to be a productive path for journalism that proposes to narrate the challenges, dilemmas, and complexities of the territories of the Global South.

Luiz Filipe Ciribelli
PhD student at the Postgraduate Program in Communication at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF / Brazil), with sandwich period at Stockholm University