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- Title
Exposing the president: The political angle of a natural disaster in Chile.
- Authors
Saldaña, Magdalena
- Abstract
Chile is a country with high levels of digital news consumption but decreasing levels of confidence in journalism and traditional news media outlets. In a place where natural disasters are common, Chilean citizens usually turn to digital and social media to find out more information about how events unfold. By relying on in-depth interviews with reporters who covered the 2014 earthquake in northern Chile, this study examines how Chilean journalists approached a highly politicized natural disaster. Results show that reporters covered the earthquake as a political issue due to editorial prompting, and they used social media as another way to get close to the sources they already know, but not to look for alternative sources. The implications of these findings for media scholars and practitioners relate to the normalization of social media use among journalists, and the influence of a news outlet's political leaning on journalistic practices.
- Subjects
CHILE; NATURAL disasters; SOCIAL media
- Publication
#ISOJ Journal, 2019, Vol 9, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
2328-0700
- Publication type
Article