Acting for journalism: from the professional engagement to the "intransigent defense of human rights"

Abstract

The present article introduces the problem of the internationalization of spaces and professional knowledge, starting from the case of an NGO of "investigative" journalists that associates professional engagement to the defense of causes such as "human rights". Exploring mainly a set of interviews performed with the founders of the NGO, it seeks to: 1) describe their respective relations with the "profession", the "social" and "politics", and to identify the intentions and processes that led to the creation of the NGO; 2) demonstrate the ways by which the multiple connections with the "international" (studies abroad, funding by philanthropic foundations, participation in “large transnational investigations”) contribute to the configuration of a relatively new model of professional performance, as well as for the restructuring of the Brazilian journalistic space in the recent period.