Estudio comparativo del tratamiento mediático sobre la emergencia sanitaria COVID-19 del 2020 en Ecuador, caso de estudio noticieros Ecuavisa y Ecuador TV

Abstract

This article "Comparative study of the media treatment of the health emergency COVID-19 of 2020 in Ecuador, case study Ecuavisa news and Ecuador TV" exposes a follow-up made to each of the broadcasts presented by the news networks Telediario EC and Ecuavisa in the month of June 2020. Likewise, this monitoring was carried out for two weeks, in order to determine what is the handling of the information of these media about the COVID-19 health emergency in Ecuador. In this research, a descriptive methodology was used for which a data analysis matrix was implemented in which the variants of the headline, news time, actors and registered information sources, repetition of sources and comparative study are collected; In this way, it is concluded that the newscasts Telediario EC and Televistazo make replicas of information, providing only data from government sources or much larger media and with better access to data and statistics without presenting a more detailed investigation of the analyzed topics. That implies that there is no effective handling of the data due to different circumstances that prevented the usual and professional development of their skills at that time.