O jornalismo de dados e sua incorporação no bacharelado em Jornalismo

Abstract

In this master’s thesis, we employ a qualitative methodology to analyze the recent inclusion of Data Journalism in the curriculum of Journalism courses. We not only present the historical development of college education in Journalism, until the recent creation of the bachelor's degree in Journalism, but also provide a national and international mapping of the field of Data Journalism. We carry out this mapping not as a comparison, but rather as a literature review. Journalism courses, as our research reveals, are trying to adapt to the new National Curriculum Guidelines. It is already possible to identify specific disciplines and practical activities focused on Data Journalism inserted in the curricula of Journalism courses. Teachers and researchers of this area are aware of the importance of that knowledge, which guarantees a training that is consistent with the increasingly digital reality of contemporary journalism. Moreover, it enables the production of reports based on concrete data, without losing sight of the journalists’ social function as the ones who mediate the access to information of public interest.