Newsworthiness perception between journalists, press officers and newspaper readers from Campo Grande (MS)

Abstract

The article presents results from one of the steps of a broader investigation about the universe of news selection and journalistic narration in regional contexts, notably in the case of Mato Grosso do Sul. From the methodological point of view, the research follows a structural design analogous to the newsworthiness study developed by Shoemaker and Cohen (2006) in ten countries of different continents. For the purposes of this article, the focus is on newsworthiness perception between journalists, press officers, and readers from Campo Grande (MS) newspapers based on inferences from gatekeeping exercises. The results show that although there is individual agreement between journalists and readers in the newsworthiness perception, on the other hand, it can be identified only weak or negative relations between the hierarchies from gatekeeping exercises and the news content that integrates the corpus of analysis.

Keywords: Journalism. Newsworthiness. Mato Grosso do Sul. Gatekeeping.