O jornalismo de esports: análise da cobertura do Mais Esports na fase de entrada do mundial de LOL - 2019

Abstract

Esports are competitively played professionally minded electronic games that have been around since the 1970s, but have become popular over the past two decades. With industry booming, competencies, health and journalism are on the rise. This research was dedicated to analyzing the coverage made by one of the largest esports websites in Brazil, Mais Esports. The coverage analyzed was that of the largest esports championship in terms of popularity, the LoL World Cup, which according to statistics website Esports Charts peaked at 3.7 million simultaneous viewers, excluding viewers from China, the country of the present day. champion. During the research, made from the research model of journalistic blogs developed by Colussi and Miguel (2014), we came to some conclusions. The research shows a specialized press, represented by Mais Esports, which innovates little and has as its priority the content of factual reports, descriptions of sports-style games and little depth. The work explains the need for improvement in journalistic thinking and doing with more depth, innovation and social relevance in its content.