CRITICAL-EMANCIPATORY JOURNALISM AND MARXIST ETHICS: the praxis of news against the order of capital

ABSTRACT The article defends the need for approximation between Adelmo Genro Filho’s proposal of critical-emancipatory journalism (2012) and the debates within Marxist ethics. Of a theoretical-conceptual nature, contributions are presented to, in the wake of the ontological foundations that support a Theory of Journalism, add to the necessarily collective, practical, and engaged development of news praxis. Ethical praxis as a guide for news praxis is, however, a confrontation and is only possible when taking a stand in the ongoing class struggle. This requires the return of the historical subject as an agent of the process of social metabolism, a mobilization that can count on the formative role of critical-emancipatory journalism, but which also depends on a broad renewed movement that places another form of collective life on the agenda.