O impacto do jornalisno de investigação televisivo na agenda pública e política em Portugal

Abstract

This study aims to analyse how investigative journalism impacts public and political agendas. By analysing the investigative reports produced by the generalist channel SIC over a 6-month period, this research has built a methodology divided into two phases. Firstly, quantitative content analysis was used to confirm whether what is presented as investigative journalism actually is. In the second phase, an analysis model was built for measuring engagement and impact, in order to check whether there is an impact, how it is characterised and how the audience's relationship with the content influences that impact. As a result, it seems that the channel under analysis continues to focus on investigative journalism, but that this journalism's ability to have an impact is diminished and depends on factors other than just engagement, such as the context, the subject, the complexity of the facts and the medium. This research seems to demonstrate that although investigative journalism manages to impact public and media agendas, it is now encountering difficulty in transferring this impact to the political agenda, with a logic that is inverse to the literature as the media agenda is more influenced by other agendas than it influences them.

Date of Award	30 Jan 2025
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Ioli Campos (Supervisor)