Journalists and theory: conciliation possible?

Abstract

This paper proposes a reflection about the journalism professional practice. It is presumed that the theories, concepts and notions developed, in the last decades and all over the world, to support the journalism practice as a field of knowledge and a social influence vector have little influenced or contributed to diminish many of the main deviations, incongruity and deficiencies that have already been diagnosed within its field. In summary, the question is: why the theoretical studies in the journalism field have little contributed to improve its professional exercise? This question seems to increase its relevance whenever it considers that as far as journalism functions of mediating and setting the every day life by its sociotechnical means, the journalism itself have experimented important transformations in its enunciation modes of production and distribution by which it attempts to introduce to its public their everydayness.