La COVID-19 en el periodismo: un impacto ambivalente

Abstract

The COVID-19 outbreak is a highly disruptive event in our society. Its consequences have affected different social domains. Our objective is to analyse its impact on journalism in a panoramic and comprehensive way. We intend to identify the main alterations and changes that the Coronavirus has caused. The methodology is based on the qualitative analysis of secondary data, taking as a reference the case of Spain during the first period of the pandemic. The results allow identifying positive and negative effects in five areas: news consumption, business model, working conditions, disinformation and relations with political actors. These findings reveal that the incidence of this health crisis in journalism is ambivalent.