Narrating the other: notes about the centrality of testimony to the journalistic narratives

Abstract

In its contemporary dimension, the testimony assumes a central place for media narratives, particularly for journalism. This paper proposes a discussion about the testimonial narrative in journalistic accounts that emerges from the perspective of subjectivity and affections, against the hegemonic logic of a kind of media marked by objectivity. Its starting point is an article where a journalist witnesses the death of his interviewee. This sort of narrative allows us to elaborate clues to think the role of testimonies and its limits, recognizing that, if considered in the narrative ow, not only as a journalistic routine procedure but also as a lived, narrated experience, it could offer a key to putting individuals into a relationship.