Proposing an analytics model for independent journalism ecosystems

Abstract: This project develops and applies the concept of "media-journalistic ecosystem" to understand the emergence, in recent years, of new journalistic actors with profiles configured around the idea of independent journalism. This research path aimed to indicate the possibility of formulating an analysis model that allows the recognition of dynamics that structure the forms of action of these new journalistic actors, within a scenario of relations of interdependence and complementarity between journalistic and non-journalistic actors in digitized, platformized environments and experience in social networks. Such questions were applied in an empirical research on 16 organizations located in the state of Sergipe, Northeast Brazil, aimed at mapping actors and forms of network interactions, which can be taken as indicators of configuration of these media-journalistic ecosystems.