A ética no Jornalismo – Análise comparativa da cobertura jornalística do conflito russo-ucraniano pelo Telejornal da RTP1 e pelo Jornal das 8 da TVI

Authors

  • Mariana Furtado Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
  • Paulo Jorge dos Santos Martins Centro de Administração e Políticas Públicas, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6445-8115

Abstract

This study investigates the Code of Ethics for Portuguese Journalists rules’ compliance regarding television news coverage of the first week of the Russian’s invasion of Ukraine (from February 24 to March, 2 of 2022) on RTP1's Telejornal and TVI's Jornal das 8. Based on a comparative methodological design, the techniques used were content analysis, critical discourse analysis and interviews with editors of the channels' international sections and the first Portuguese freelance journalist to cover the conflict from Donbass. The results suggest that RTP1 performs better in terms of listening to parties with viable interests, diversifying and identifying sources, and clearly distinguishing between opinion and news. TVI stands out for its rigour and accuracy, its inclusion of sources involved in the conflict and its attribution of opinions. On both channels, there was a predominance of intimate imagery, full of life, and an individualization of political figures, with a particular focus on Vladimir Putin. Although Russia plays an active role in most of the discourse analysed, TVI gave Ukraine more often an active role. The separatists of the self-proclaimed republics were excluded from RTP1's material and appeared just four times in TVI's stories.

Key words: Journalism; journalism ethics; television; war; Ukraine.

Author Biographies

Mariana Furtado, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

É mestranda em Jornalismo na Universidade Nova de Lisboa e licenciada em Ciências da Comunicação, pela Universidade de Lisboa (2023). A sua dissertação de mestrado, em curso, incide no estudo da cobertura jornalística da invasão russa da Ucrânia, iniciado no seminário de licenciatura.

Paulo Jorge dos Santos Martins, Centro de Administração e Políticas Públicas, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas

Professor auxiliar no ISCSP (Universidade de Lisboa), a sua principal área de docência e investigação é a ética e a deontologia jornalísticas. É autor de artigos, capítulos de livros – nomeadamente em “Ética Aplicada. Comunicação Social” (2017) – e livros, como “O Privado em público – Direito à informação e direitos de personalidade” (2013).

Downloads

Published

2025-05-29

Issue

No. 40 (2025): Estudos em Comunicação

Section

Artigos

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported License.

Estudos em Comunicação/Communication Studies is an Open Access journal. All its content is freely available without charge to the user or his institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. Estudos em Comunicação, by Labcom, is licensed under a Creative Commons Atribuição-NãoComercial-SemDerivações 3.0 Unported License. By submitting your work to Estudos em Comunicação/Communication studies you confirm you are the author and own the copyright, that the content is original and previously unpublished, and that you agree to the licensing terms.