EL PESO DE LA PRESIÓN SOCIAL Y POLÍTICA: ESTUDIO DE LAS LIMITACIONES QUE CONDICIONAN EL DESEMPEÑO DE LOS PERIODISTAS EN CINCO PAÍSES LATINOAMERICANOS

Abstract

This text presents the first report of the research done by the erp research team (Estudio Rutinas Periodísticas), integrated by academicians from Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina and México, oriented to identify the conditions that affect the informative labor of Latin American journalists. The document allows getting to know the relation between journalists and political power and the restrictions that this sector has in the access to and the broadcasting of information. Furthermore, the research deepens on the influence of audiences in the construction of social reality that also configures as a condition to information work. In this way, and in the voice of journalists themselves, often observed as intermediators between the politic and the public agenda, the complex labor reality of journalists is exposed. The exposition and comparison between the obtained results allows to determine general tendencies applicable to Latin America as a whole and also to specific realities in each country, and to propose the general changes needed to secure that the profession will be able to fulfill effectively its social role.