Narration as a global trend of journalistic documentary forms

Abstract

The paper critically reviews the role of journalistic documentary forms in contemporary journalism, mainly of global print media, with the intention of achieving top interpretation by using in-depth research and documentary mediation. The focus of the research is on the analysis of narrative in documentary reportage, not only as representative of new documentaristics, but also as a leader of global trends in storytelling, which already rules the media industry. A case study of National Geographic on a representative sample allows an insight into composition and mechanisms of intentionality in the analyzed documentary reportages, from which we can derive explanations for their ways of influence on the mind and emotions of the recipient, with ubiquitous psychagogical features. An immeasurable impact which those features have on the multimillion audiences/readers is also considered here.

Tekst kritički preispituje ulogu novinarskih dokumentarnih formi u savremenom novinarstvu, prevashodno globalnih štampanih medija, kroz intenciju ostvarivanja vrhunske interpretacije uz pomoć 'in deepth' istraživanja i kroz dokumentarno posredovanje. Fokus istraživanja je na analizi narativa dokumentarnih reportaža, kao ne samo reprezentativnih predstavnika nove dokumentaristike, već i predvodnika globalnog trenda 'storytelling-a', koji je uveliko zavladao medijskom industrijom. Studija slučaja 'National Geographic' na reprezentativnom uzorku omogućava uvid u kompoziciju, te mehanizme postojanja intencionalnosti u obrađivanim dokumentarnim reportažama, iz čega proishodi objašnjenje načina njihovog delovanja na svest i osećanja recipijenta, uz sveprisutna psihagoška svojstva. Baš kao i nemerljiv uticaj koji na taj način ostvaruju na višemilionsku publiku - čitaoce.