Special coverage: experience and innovation in Television Journalism

In the preface to volume 20 of the Audiovisual Journalism Collection, journalist Vera Íris Paternostro drew attention to the growing connectivity and the invasion of mobile devices, which would have changed the configuration of television news content, which began to unfold "in formats, platforms and languages accessible at any time and in any place with a reach never seen before". Author of reference books in the area such as "The text on TV" and "Aristotle in the digital world", she pointed out that Rede Telejor not only observed the transformations, but participated in them, inviting "the reader to reflect, dialogue and create possible futures for communication".

The proposal of the coordinator's proposal is to reinforce this perspective by looking at special coverage in Television Journalism. In the third decade of the twenty-first century, when concepts and experiences such as transmedia, convergence, interactivity and sharing accelerate from technological development and popularization, it is important to reflect on aspects present in the text "Considerations on the concept of coverage in television journalism", by Cárlida Emerim and Antônio Brasil (2013). The diversification of forms of transmission and access to video content is strained by the convergence with digital social networks, streaming platforms and the implementation of TV 3.0. Technological changes, and in the scenario of diversified supply and production of journalistic material in video have impacts on open television, which starts to use digital TV multichannels in special coverage, such as the World Cup and even the 2026 Elections