Role and importance of journalistic documentary forms in print media

Abstract

World economy crisis, as well as the global technological and media changes, made tectonical disorder mostly in print media. For some time now, there is a question of their psychical survival. News magazines are on the hit, as their recent rolls are now taken by daily newspapers. There is a consent on social - economic and technological challenges that Serbian press has to answer, but the question - what to do with news magazines and what further, remains open. The same is with interpretation. This article is trying to find answers in journalistic documentary forms which are more and more present and which are continuation of positive journalistic interpretative evolution, through proof of necessity of bigger presence of documentary forms as specific segment of investigative journalism. Besides theoretical considerations and definitions of the most common genres, this paper, based on case study of three news magazines with biggest circulation: Vreme, NIN and Pečat, shows results of research and provides directions/recommendations for comeback of credibility and quality of referent information-political weekly news press in Serbia.

Svetska ekonomska kriza i globalne tehnološke i medijske promene izazvale su tektonske poremećaje prevashodno u štampanim medijima. Već neko vreme, postavlja se čak i pitanje njihovog fizičkog opstanka. Na udaru su najviše nedeljnici, pogotovo njuz magazini, čiju doskorašnju ulogu uveliko preuzima dnevna štampa. I pored saglasnosti oko socijalno-ekonomskih i tehnoloških izazova, kojima srpska štampa neminovno mora da odgovori, ostaje otvoreno pitanje: šta sa nedeljnicima i kuda dalje? Nedostatak kredibilnog i istraživačkog novinarstva - nije upitan. Interpretativnost, takođe. Ovaj tekst pokušava da odgovore nađe u sve prisutnijim novinarskim dokumentarnim formama, kao nastavku pozitivne žurnalističke interpretativne evolucije, kroz dokazivanje neophodnosti većeg prisustva 'dokumentaristike' kao posebnog segmenta istraživačkog novinarstva. Pored teorijskih razmatranja i u okviru njih definisanja najprisutnijih žanrova, ovaj rad, kroz studiju slučaja tri najtiražnija njuz magazina: Vreme, NIN i Pečat, pokazuje rezultate istraživanja i daje putokaze za povratak kredibiliteta i kvaliteta referentne informativno-političke nedeljne srpske štampe.