Three Panels on Mexican Journalism: LASA 2016

The annual meeting of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), was carried out in the last days in New York. Three panels on Mexican journalism were organized by Celia del Palacio, Sallie Hughes, Victor Hugo Reyna presented. In these sessions, various academics works from Mexico and the United States were shown.

Three Panels on Mexican Journalism: LASA 2016

The dominant theme of the panels was the “crisis of journalism” in Mexico. In particular, the most pressing and degrading is the crisis related to the security crisis of journalists, who are regularly assassinated and threatened.

The crisis was also addressed from a labor perspective and the structural features of a working system based on labor flexibility, unfair wages, and high turnover. The crisis also appeared from a perspective of journalism as a profession. Journalism is facing changes due to structural conditions but also is changing because of the values and goals of the new generations of reporters.

 

The following is the list of works presented during the three panels:

 

“El eslabón más frágil del periodismo local en México: el reportero independiente o freelancer”, María Elena Hernández, Universidad de Guadalajara

 

“Twenty years of economic changes of Guadalajara’s newspapers: journalistic standardization, the emergence of the Golden Triangle, and the Hawkers’ death”,

Juan Sebastián Larrosa, Temple University

 

“La otra cara de la crisis: agotamiento profesional e intenciones de renuncia en periodistas de Sonora”, Víctor Hugo Reyna, El Colegio de Sonora

 

“Political coverage or crime reporting? Beat assignment and local reporting as explanations for fatal attacks on journalists”, Emily D. Edmonds-Poli, University of San Diego

 

“Autocensura y nuevas prácticas periodística en el contexto de la Guerra del narcotráfico en el noreste de México”, Alma Elena Gutierrez, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

 

“The Mexican press, democracy, and violence: Conceptualizing resistance in the profession”, Jeannine E. Relly, University of Arizona

 

“Explaining changes in journalists’ practices and routines in a context of risk and threat: Results from a national survey of journalists”, Sallie Hughes, University of Miami

 

“Periodistas en Jalisco: cobertura de la nota roja en Guadalajara de los años noventa al nuevo milenio”, Gabriela Gómez, Universidad de Guadalajara

 

“Persecución y campañas de difamación en contra de periodistas en Chiapas”, Sarelly Martinez, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas

 

“Ocultos o visibles: los casos de vulneración de la libertad de expresión de periodistas en Jalisco”, Frida Viridiana Rodelo, Universidad de Guadalajara

 

“Periodismo y Violencia(s) en Ciudad Juárez, México”, Salvador Salazar, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez