Journalistic Intersubjectivity and Coverage of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Brazil

Abstract

This work aims to discuss intersubjectivity as a constitutive characteristic of the journalistic narrative as opposed to the myth of objectivity. For that, the reflections start from the concept of dialogism in Bakhtin and the aid of Schudson (2010) and Motta (2017). Throughout the text, cases from the Brazilian press about the coverage of the pandemic of the new coronavirus (Covid-19), which challenges the journalistic narrative to bring understandable plots in the face of the complexity of the crisis, are brought up. In this sense, it was verified the importance of intersubjectivity in the context of the implications involved in the construction of news about the Covid-19 pandemic, placing the journalist as an active part of this process, including in the discursive marks of emotion that reinforce the individual's relationship with the possible world present in the news, constituting journalism always involved by the other and their cultural, historical and social circumstances.