Os elementos de transparência no jornalismo guiado por dados

This book deals with transparency in data-driven journalism, a set of practices linked to digital and network journalism, and inserted in a scenario of excess information and misinformation. It is based on the theories of journalism as a form and forms of knowledge. Intertwined with fundamental values such as truth and objectivity, transparency concerns the openness of processes and editorial decisions, allowing the audience to have access to information that is normally asymmetric in the relationship between newspaper and public. In this way, the author presents transparency in two broad aspects: as an operator of an ethical practice and as a discursive resource for legitimation. To examine how this value appears in the journalistic product, she combines the multiple case studies and the case study as an illustration, looking at the coverage of 11 leading Brazilian newspapers and digital natives in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, it systematizes 15 elements of transparency, distributed at the organizational and operational levels, detected in the coverage carried out within the JGD and in the book arranged in alphabetical order: signature, profile, and expertise; contact; error correction; publication date; documents; data sources; financing source; degrees of uncertainty; verification marks; writing manual and editorial principles; methodology; diversity policy; Privacy Policy; type of content; reproducibility and open source. These parameters serve as a guide for what the author calls the Data-Driven Journalism Transparency Protocol, intended to analyze already published journalistic products. Finally, detecting a theoretical-experimental gap, it produces the proposed Method for Data-Driven Journalism with a focus on transparency and reproducibility for implementation in data-driven journalistic initiatives. The pandemic accelerated the process of incorporating transparency as a fundamental value for JGD, previously demonstrated in the discourse of professionals and now verified in the product sphere. The tendency is for these changes to last and improve, reaffirming JGD's commitment to approaching science through methods to generate a specific type of knowledge that is more contextual and lasting.