It is not only a health crisis” Brazilian journalists face significant professional and personal risks while reporting the pandemic

This paper examines the preliminary results and findings of Brazil’s journalism and the COVID-19 pandemic, conducted under The Global Risk Journalism Hub (GRJH) international collaboration project. The reflection is framed around the mission statement of the GRJH – to find out about the challenges journalists worldwide experience when covering globalized “risks,” such as health pandemics, environmental crises, and humanitarian conflicts. In the context of a globalized digital data ecosystem, the fundamental aim of this paper is to examine current journalistic practice to lay the grounds for developing new models of international global crisis reporting. This paper is based on a survey and qualitative interviews applied to a selected group of 20 Brazilian journalists. These data are examined through the research methodology and theoretical framework designed by The Global Risk Journalism Hub international research collaboration.