Díaz Cerveró, Elba
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Díaz Cerveró, Elba
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Díaz Cerveró, Elba
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How Do Journalists in Mexico Report on Organised Crime

2021 , Díaz Cerveró, Elba , Daniel Barredo Ibáñez , Rubén Arnoldo González Macías

Among the many outcomes of the so-called War on Drugs, Mexico has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalism. Besides killings and kidnappings, journalists are also frequent victims of beatings, arbitrary detentions, and online harassment, as well as many other acts of aggression. Anti-press violence has an evident impact on Mexican journalists’ daily activities, particularly as related to the coverage of organised crime. The endemic risk that news workers constantly face determines how they represent and interpret the stories they report on when it comes to this issue. Thus, this inquiry aims to analyse the practices that reporters and editors implement during the news-making process when covering cartels’ activities. In doing so, this paper draws on a set of in-depth interviews with news workers from Mexico’s main national newspapers, and from all the states where journalists were killed in 2017. The main findings indicate that there is a lack of written norms for the coverage of organised crime, and that reporters refer to criminals with a sense of familiarity. In addition, this study contributes to the understanding of journalists’ decisions in the field when doing their job, especially in dangerous conditions.

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¿Cómo interpretan y contextualizan los periodistas mexicanos en las notas que publican sobre crimen organizado? La subjetividad ampliada

2023 , Díaz Cerveró, Elba , Daniel Barredo-Ibáñez , Rubén Arnoldo González Macías

Introducción: la noción de objetividad es la piedra angular del modelo liberal de periodismo profesional. Pero si se acepta la idea de que una de las finalidades del periodismo es ayudar a los ciudadanos a entender el mundo en el que viven, esto sólo se logra a través de la visión de los periodistas. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar el grado de interpretación y contextualización que los periodistas mexicanos imprimen a sus publicaciones cuando informan sobre hechos relacionados con el crimen organizado. Metodología: para ello, se han analizado 24 entrevistas cualitativas con reporteros que se dedican a este tipo de coberturas en toda la República mexicana. Resultados y discusión: del análisis de los datos se establece que los periodistas sí interpretan y contextualizan para sus audiencias, y lo hacen con el interés de que estas alcancen a entender mejor el complejo fenómeno que supone el crimen organizado. Aunque de forma mayoritaria dicen separar información y opinión, interpretan a través de ciertas licencias y detalles aportados desde lo que hemos considerado una subjetividad ampliada, lo cual supone el principal aporte de este trabajo. Conclusiones: las principales conclusiones del estudio son que la presión de los criminales limita esa libertad para la interpretación y que, a pesar de los esfuerzos, los entrevistados consideran que, de manera general, un lector mexicano promedio no alcanza a entender el crimen organizado, ni a través de lo que ellos mismos publican, ni de lo que aparece en otros de los medios de México.

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Caught in the Middle: Internal and External Pressures on the Coverage of Organized Crime in Mexico

2022 , Díaz Cerveró, Elba , Daniel Barredo-Ibáñez , Rubén Arnoldo González Macías

With 33 journalists killed since the beginning of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s presidential term in December 2018, Mexico heads the list of the most violent countries for journalists in Latin America—and that of countries not at war. While journalist organizations demand a meaningful protection apparatus to safeguard their physical safety, official corruption, and criminal impunity continue to escalate the pressures to which media staff are exposed, especially in Mexican states where cartels and criminal groups have the largest footprint. This study aims to precisely identify the pressures, both internal and external, facing journalists who report on organized crime in Mexico. To do this, we drew from the Hierarchy of Influences Model, and interviewed 22 Mexican journalists who work on the organized crime beat in the country’s capital and in the most violent states in the Republic. The results suggest that the most influential forces they face are associated with the organizational level (such as editorial line or institutional censorship), and the extramedia level (e.g., anti-press violence from cartels/authorities, and government advertising contracts).

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