One of main crisis of journalism is a disconnection with readers and citizenship. Interview with Alejandro Rost

Abstract

In this interview, professor Alejandro Rost, from the National University of Comahue, Argentina, reflects about the contemporary interactive relationship established between media and their public, and affirms that, with the extension of user visibility, there is an increase in the need for communication vehicles to find strategies and mechanisms to better manage the reader’s contributions. The participation of readers has increased, but the vehicles continue to mismanage the material originating from them. Rost gave this interview to Patrícia Specht, a postgraduate student at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), during the 8th International Congress of Cyberjournalism in Campo Grande (MT), in Brazil, in September 2017, where Rost was an orator.