Newsrooms as non places

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the meaning of journalists' voluntary turnover in the configuration of the space that they have historically occupied: newsrooms. Drawing on Auge's concept of non-place and fieldwork in the leading newspapers of three northern Mexican states, it is discovered that the recurring recreation of turnover events transforms newsrooms from spaces of permanence into spaces of transition; that is, from places to non-places. The scope of this phenomenon transcends the entry and exit of a certain generation since it erodes the identitarian, relational and historical character of these spaces.