Postura periodística sobre la migración venezolana: caso El Universo y El Telégrafo

Abstract

Migration is a common phenomenon throughout history that produces a substantial change, both in the place of origin and in the place of reception. This academic article proposes to analyze the journalistic position on Venezuelan migration in the media: El Universo and El Telégrafo from August 2018 to January 2019, through the analysis of journalistic notes to determine the perception they have according to the editorial line. The representation that the press gives to migration issues can influence the position taken by the reader towards the migrant. For the corpus of this study, a total of 141 news were reviewed; 59 notes from the newspaper El Universo and 82 from the newspaper El Telégrafo in a period of six months. To systematize the information, an Agenda Setting matrix and a content analysis matrix were used; the data obtained were subsequently analyzed in the light of the theoretical corpus selected for this exercise. This study made it possible to identify the particular way in which the Ecuadorian media speak of the migrant from a sensationalist point of view. Data such as: number of arrivals by borders, state of emergency, collapse of reception points, give little depth to the issues, the news has no follow-up and there are not many notes where the migrant speaks from his reality.