Fourth Wave of the reportage

portraits in Portuguese

Abstract

This article examines the longform reportage on the Internet focusing on Portuguese and Brazilian landscape. The thesis under discussion advocates that the reportage is in its Fourth Wave of development, thanks to the Internet introduction in the newsrooms, in a transversal process to different Western countries. The empirical research mobilizes quantitative methods based on content analysis of 151 reportages (57 from Portugal, 94 from Brazil) created between 2012 and 2016. Results show that the reportage preserves the founding principles of the genre and articulates the potential of web journalism, but not all resources have the same modular force in the narrative.