The interview I find as a method of reporting

Abstract

Here the methods of reporting of journalists are described and analyzed, especially the processes of the reporter as mediator-narrator. The interview-encounter-implies a method that goes to the discovery of everyday experiences, and welcomes them with the affections and sympathies of understanding. In a dialogic approach, the narrative weaves the considerations and information that universalize the situation of everyday life. With this method the relations between conversation, observation and experience-experience are established. A reflection is made on the interview encounter as a cross-sectional method of journalism, research, testimonies, life stories and human narratives. In my book The report as a methodology of journalism. A polyphony of knowledge (2017) I argue that journalism shows and illuminates paths (methods) through reporting, which throughout the world has been widely studied as a journalistic genre, but not under the dimension of the methodology of journalism, which has been important to the eyes of scholars, theorists and academics. Considering the facts, my proposal constitutes an epistemological turn, it is inovative and pioneer in contributing with another vision, which studies, analyzes and proposes the interview as a method of journalism, by showing some findings and opening new perspectives on the theories of journalism.