O papel do jornal-laboratório na formação profissional do jornalista: estudo de caso do questão de ordem da UFPB

Abstract

This dissertation investigates the production process of the laboratory newspaper Questão de Ordem in the Undergraduate Journalism course at the Federal University of Paraíba, based on its role in the professional training of journalists over time. The intention of the research is to find evidence in the production of the laboratory newspaper as a pedagogical tool of experimentation necessary for professional training in journalism. Based on this reflection, we seek to contribute to studies that guide the professional practice of journalists. To this end, we will use the case study presented by Yin (2005) and its application in communication through evidence, according to Braga (2008), in the set of documentary and bibliographic surveys, interviews with professors and students, in addition to participant observation (Gil, 2008) of this process in the first semester of 2023 of the Print Journalism Workshop discipline. The interest in this empirical object is justified by the debate on the training of journalists, worldwide, on the role of academia in professional training and its adaptive criteria over time. Historical surveys of the productions propose a careful attempt to recognize the need to preserve laboratory productions that bring a bivalent view of academic exercises and journalistic records of the time, thus creating a memory of journalism education, in addition to listing the constant evidence both in its history and in the contemporary production of the Jornal Questão de Ordem. With this, it demonstrates how pedagogical activity exposes the discussion of theory and practice in journalism education within the context of technological advances in professional training arising from the formative axis of the Journalism course. It is from this case study that the research tools demonstrate how the professional training of journalists at UFPB and find points that lead to reflections on the decisions and conduct of a laboratory newspaper over more than 40 years.