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- Title
Producción periodística y reconversión digital en Centroamérica: avances y retos.
- Authors
S., Méndez-Muros; J. M., Castillo Zamora
- Abstract
The practice of journalism in Central American countries faces great challenges. The digital conversion of newsrooms has left a mark on the media in an unstable economic and political context and an increasingly competitive labor market to address a public that shows shortages. Our objective is to describe the impact of digitalization on journalistic production in media of Central America through the study of four countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) over ten years (2012-2021). We use methodological triangulation through the use of mixed qualitative and quantitative techniques (previous studies on journalistic digitization, 102 surveys of working journalists and 14 semi-structured interviews with experts) on three thematic axes: the impact of digitization on news production, the employment situation of journalists during the digital conversion process and the effects on the journalistic enterprise. The main conclusions point to the fact that journalists have had to develop digital competencies in a process of accelerated transformation that has affected content, routines, sources and thematic agenda; journalists have accumulated tasks, while job insecurity has increased, although the digital reconfiguration has made it possible to work more comfortably and there is a commitment to continuous technological training for journalists.
- Subjects
CENTRAL America; LABOR market; JOB security; SEMI-structured interviews; DIGITIZATION; JOURNALISTS; FOOD security; FREEDOM of the press
- Publication
Revista de Comunicación, 2023, Vol 22, Issue 2, p377
- ISSN
1684-0933
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26441/RC22.2-2023-3284