Watchdogging populism: journalistic roles conception, performance and negotiation in reporting the far-right in Portugal

Rui Alexandre Novais

doi:10.25200/BJR.v18n2.2022.1425

Watchdogging populism: journalistic roles conception, performance and negotiation in reporting the far-right in Portugal

Rui Alexandre Novais

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Abstract

The article aims to unpack the press reporting of far-right populism invested in its journalistic roles, as manifested in the watchdog performance by the leading Portuguese newsmagazine Visão in a series of feature articles on the emergent Chega party. Drawing on an original combination of methodologies comprising surveys, rhetorical analysis, and qualitative interviewing, it concludes that Visão adopts an interventionist mode of the watchdog role in the reporting. It also validates the need to integrate a negotiative assessment of the role orientation and reporting practive to fill both the general ideal-practive gap of the journalistic roles and the specific ideal-performance of the watchdog role.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	316-349
Number of pages	34
Journal	Brazilian Journalism Research
Volume	18
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.25200/BJR.v18n2.2022.1425
Publication status	Published - 29 Aug 2022

Keywords

Ideal-practice press professional roles
Far-right populism
Portuguese journalists and Visão newsmagazine
Watchdog orientation and performance
Negotiative assessment of journalistic professional roles

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Watchdogging populism: journalistic roles conception, performance and negotiation in reporting the far-right in Portugal

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