Journalism in Flux: The Changing News Industry in Latin America, 2013-2021

Over the last decade, countries throughout Latin America have faced significant shifts at the social institutional and systems levels that warrant an examination of how the region's journalism has changed during this tumultuous period. Using a hierarchy of influences approach, this study employ...

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Published inJournalism practice Vol. ahead-of-print; no. ahead-of-print; pp. 1 - 20
Main Authors Harlow, Summer, Higgins Joyce, Vanessa de Macedo, Schmitz Weiss, Amy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 27.07.2023
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Collaborative journalism
hierarchy of influences
investigative journalism
Latin America
social media
transnational journalism
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Summary:Over the last decade, countries throughout Latin America have faced significant shifts at the social institutional and systems levels that warrant an examination of how the region's journalism has changed during this tumultuous period. Using a hierarchy of influences approach, this study employs repeated, cross-sectional surveys with Latin American journalists from 20 countries in 2013 (n = 572), 2017 (n = 159), and 2021 (n = 1720) to analyze micro-institutional changes during times of macro-level changes. We identify macro-institutional influences on the shrinking of Latin American newsrooms, consolidation of social media use, and increase of investigative and collaborative reporting. We suggest journalists responded to changes via innovation, shifting editorial lines, transnationalization, and changes in newsroom organization.
ISSN:1751-2786
1751-2794
DOI:10.1080/17512786.2023.2239209