Genres in Journalism and interviewing techniques

Abstract

What is more important: Inform, Entertain, Judge or Interpret, concerning the writing of a journalistic text? What is the purpose of subdividing journalistic discourse in genres? What other resources might help the journalist in the construction of the news article? These subjects directly interest the students of Journalism, though providing the major concern be the seeking of quality while exercising the profession. Otherwise, they are meaningless. Nevertheless, being aware of such genres – even for the division of physical space within the press office – might be useful in those moments in which the reporter can fly higher, breaking through the genres, adopting the designated “author’s text”, thus leading the receptor through a more joyful, fascinating, passionate reading, in which everything melds together in the concreteness of a greater text. There, the reporter shall not hide his opinion, shall be able to be playful in the narrative, will pass dependable information and will interpret the fact with consummate skill, placing it in a context, explaining and making it clear.