Paraíba: Quem somos – atravessando a Porta do Sol: relatório de projeto transmídia – livro-reportagem e podcast

Abstract

This report describes the production phases of the non-fiction book and podcast "Paraíba: who we are - crossing the Sun’s Door" and presents theoretical-discursive reflections around these. The project aimed to interview five people from the state and tell their life stories in profile format, adapted to the language of print journalism and radio journalism in podcasts. On the other hand, another objective of this product was to embrace journalism as a means of disseminating Paraíba and its people, based on a selection of narratives made through the eyes of the researcher and which reveals, in the unique approach to life stories, a set of of collective and individual realities, of familiarity with the location addressed, of overcoming, inspirations, knowledge and other aspects endowed with symbolic value. This research, of a qualitative nature, presents a bibliographical review based on themes such as journalistic narratives, proximity journalism, literary journalism, hypermedia radio journalism and expanded radio. The preparation of this journalistic product included interviews carried out in 2024 with characters from Paraíba and field visits throughout the state of Paraíba, starting in the cities of Barra de Santa Rosa and João Pessoa, in addition to coverage carried out on the European continent, in locations such as Geneva/Switzerland, Rome/Italy and Braga/Portugal. Through the interview and the fieldwork, the construction of the report is perceived in this work as the direct route towards others and the worldviews they hold within themselves. Journalism builds a bridge between the interviewed subjects and people and establishes, based on the journalistic product "Paraíba: who we are - crossing the Sun’s Door", connections between a broad audience and life stories selected by the journalist in the midst of a torrent of other personal narratives. It is expected, from this starting point, that the project will contribute to the emergence of human and journalistic views on Paraíba and to the reverberation of the state's riches, through narratives that travel inside and outside the northeastern stronghold, but especially in the internal of hearts that beat with love for Paraíba that makes them “paraibanos” in sociocultural cradles.