Information on the COVID-19 pandemic in daily newspapers' front pages : case study of Spain and Italy
Tejedor, Santiago (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Periodisme i de Ciències de la Comunicació)
Zabotina, Margarita (Kazan Federal University. International Office)
Cervi, Laura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Periodisme i de Ciències de la Comunicació)
Tusa, Fernanda (University of Machala. Faculty of Social Sciences)
Portalés Oliva, Marta (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Periodisme i de Ciències de la Comunicació)

Date:	2020
Abstract:	Spain and Italy are amongst the European countries where the COVID-19 pandemic has produced its major impact and where lockdown measures have been the harshest. This research aims at understanding how the corona crisis has been represented in Spanish and Italian media, focusing on reference newspapers. The study analyzes 72 front pages of El País and El Mundo in Spain and Italy's Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica, collecting 710 news items and 3456 data evidences employing a mixed method (both qualitative and quantitative) based on content analysis and hemerographic analysis. Results show a predominance of informative journalistic genres (especially brief and news), while the visual framing emerging from the photographic choice, tend to foster humanization through an emotional representation of the pandemic. Politicians are the most represented actors, showing a high degree of politicization of the crisis.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	COVID-19 ; Newspapers ; Media ; Journalism
Published in:	International journal of environmental research and public health, Núm. 17 (2020) , p. 6330, ISSN 1660-4601

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17176330
PMID: 32878092

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