The quality of life as a social and editorial construct: news demands and the historic configuration of service journalism in magazines

• Autor(a) principal: Tavares, Frederico de Mello Brandão
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Verso e Reverso (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/versoereverso/article/view/ver.2012.26.62.02

There is a prominent subject in contemporary journalism. A growing set of stories deal, under the rubric of “services”, with the issue of quality of life, discussing the well-being in current societies. Facing this context, this article aims at reflecting on this topic through the lenses of magazine journalism. The paper sheds light on the way this type of information simultaneously responds to certain social demands and nurtures them. The discussion addresses historical questions and focuses on the dialogue between social issues and journalistic production, thus disclosing features of the magazine. It conceives of magazines as a specific medium of communication, which elaborates, through segmented publications, an editorial construct in consonance with a contemporary model of well-being.