Analysis of the Methodologies Applied in the Ethnographic Study of TV Newsrooms

This text aims to explore the methodologies used to study the culture of television newsrooms. In doing so, it reviews the two periods of ethnographies, before and after the newsrooms’ digitalization. In a first step, it delimits the object of study based on the idea of ​​scenarios and social actors. Then, it reworks that information by pointing out four essential cultural dimensions in ethnographies and their associated methodologies. Finally, it proposes some recommendations to delve deeper into the ethnography of a digital television newsroom.