Apontamentos para um perfil dos arranjos alternativos de jornalismo no Ceará

Abstract

This investigation presents results of a research on ‘alternative’ journalism arrangements to the major media corporations in Ceará. The purpose of this article is to outline a preliminary profile of 63 of these work arrangements. The research is characterized as exploratory and uses self-declarations of each of these arrangements. The results indicate that the arrangements tend to identify themselves as journalistic due the genres and formats used and also from routines and practices typical of the profession. Most of them do not declare themselves as alternatives or independent, nor as entrepreneurs. A considerable part of them are collective and mention their place of origin and /or activity.