The Daily, O Assunto e Café da Manhã : a produção da atualidade em podcasts diários de notícias

Abstract

Although often promoted for their present appeal, related to the need of being heard by the moment they were launched, daily news podcasts frequently keep their hearing value, even after days, months or maybe years of being published. Thus, the release of a new episode does not necessarily make the previous immediately obsolete, in the way that happens with other kinds of daily journalism, such as newspapers and TV newscasts. In journalistic jargon, those podcasts could be “breaking news” as well as “mere news”. Focusing on shows that have become big audience phenomenon and audio investment propellers in Brazil – O Assunto, from g1, e Café da Manhã, from Folha de S.Paulo – and the United States – The Daily, from The New York Times – this work tries to understand the narrative constructions mobilized by them to ascertain how topicality production senses reorganize in the way that these texts are structured and compose realities.