Authorship’s turn in the “book of reporter”

Abstract

This text intends to answer the classic Foucauldian question “what’s an author?” (1970), in the journalistic field, considering authorship as a dispositive of displacement of an epistemological movement from the collective authorship in the journalistic media to the individual authorship in the “book of reporter”. The resistance actions in journalism provokes this authorship’s turn, which moves the reporter to the condition of a “new intellectual” realizing himself as an author focused on illuminating the shadow zone in the media production. The experience of two reporters, collected in research interviews or described in their books, and the analysis of the book Viagem à Palestina, show four characteristics of the “author-reporter”.

Keywords journalism; authorship; book of reporter