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| Author(s): |
Lelo, Thales
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | JOURNALISM PRACTICE; v. N/A, p. 19-pg., 2022-06-16. |
| Abstract | |
This study addresses socio-political and professional factors driving the surge of the Brazilian fact-checking venture in the last years. Drawing on a set of 16 semi-structured interviews with fact-checkers from 13 active initiatives, it delves into motivations that led journalists to put in motion their fact-checking firms. Based on the existing literature on structural dynamics and professional incentives for fact-checking, the paper suggests that these two instances concur with the advancement of that journalistic subgenre. Research findings show that the last two electoral cycles (2014-2018) created a thriving landscape for fact-checking due to growing political turmoil in Brazil. Besides, there is also an isomorphic tendency in the development of new fact-checking initiatives. Pioneer American and Argentinean fact-checking firms inspired first projects. Nevertheless, motivations for fact-checking have been increasingly diverse over the years, including training workshops, successful coalitions, and grants from foreign investors. This study contributes to the growing scholarship on an emerging journalistic subfield showing the context-sensitive nature of the expansion of the fact-checking enterprise in a milieu distinct from the US-European landscape. Furthermore, it stresses how structural and professional factors act as field-configuring instances of new journalistic ventures. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 19/01330-0 - Communication and work in the Brazilian fact-checking landscape: a mapping of projects and professionals working in the sector |
| Grantee: | Thales Vilela Lelo |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |