Análisis de los géneros periodísticos sobre la información del covid-19 por el diario El Mercurio de Cuenca sección impresa

Abstract

This research work identifies the treatment of the news published in the printed media “El Mercurio de Cuenca” newspaper, during the beginning of the pandemic caused by the COVID-19. It will possible to identify how the news published in this media were structured and which journalistic genres were more recurrent.

The methodology used in this study will be the qualitative approach and the content analysis method. The technique for data collection: physical documentary review, analysis of printed newspapers from April 20 to May 3, 2020, and semi-structured interviews with experts.

This work seeks to know according to the Law of Communication in which freedom of information is mentioned, how readers have the right to receive, seek, produce and disseminate information by any means in a timely and clear manner during the initial period of the Pandemic, especially in Cuenca.