Como as ruas falam : um estudo sobre as práticas jornalísticas do jornal boca de rua

Abstract

This dissertation reflects on the journalistic practices of Boca de Rua, the only newspaper in the world produced and sold by people experiencing homelessness, understanding it as a legitimate producer of journalism. Born from the collaboration between two journalists from the Agência Livre para Informação, Cidadania e Educação of Porto Alegre (Alice) and young people living on the streets, the newspaper was founded in 2000. This research aims to describe the journalistic practices of Boca de Rua, framing it as a point of contact between hegemonic journalism and the Ruaologia, the knowledge of the streets, and to analyze to what extent it appropriates and/or subverts practices derived from hegemonic journalism, which is governed by positivist, masculinist, racist, and classist norms (Veiga da Silva, 2015), in the production of a newspaper that clearly takes sides: the side of the street population. To this end, the study draws on the theoretical frameworks of Traquina (2005a; 2005b) and Silva (2005; 2018) to reflect on journalistic practices, while also adopting gender as an analytical category, as proposed by Veiga da Silva (2010; 2015), serving as a theoretical and epistemological key to thinking about the types of knowledge journalism produces. Given the researcher's involvement as a collaborator with the newspaper since 2022, the study is methodologically grounded in intervention research. For the analysis, the study relied on four types of sources: observations, field diary entries, categorization of the main editorial topics, and collective reflection on practice. The analysis revealed that Boca de Rua is a newspaper that denounces the realities faced by its contributors, tells its own story, and amplifies the voices of those living on the streets