The profile of journalist and the discourses on journalism: Investigating the changes in the working world of professional journalists in São Paulo, Brazil

This article discusses the quantitative and qualitative results from the research ‘The journalist profile and the discourses on journalism: Investigating the changes in the working world of professional journalists in São Paulo, Brazil’, which has as objective to understand the changes in the working world, in the professional profile of journalists and in theirs discourses. In the first part, we contextualize the research in these changes from the rise of capitalism, from media convergence and from the deep cultural changes introduced by the use of new technologies. In the second part, we report the methodological procedures that justify the composition of the sample of our research (the journalists). In the last part, we present the results of the research and the observations on the analysis of the professional profile of journalists from São Paulo, the Brazilian state that has the highest number of journalists, besides the challenges of the profession.