Análisis de cobertura periodística del diario el universo al caso las torres

Abstract

Corruption is an evil present in every corner of the world, and Ecuador is no exception. However, investigative journalism has allowed the majority of corruption cases involving highranking public officials in the country to be brought to the public eye. This article takes as a reference the newspaper El Universo and its journalistic work in the case of corruption in the oil sector called Las Torres. The general objective of this research is to determine the journalistic coverage practices in this case through an investigation of the different informative, interpretative and opinion articles, which allows analyzing the role of journalism in the generation of public opinion in corruption cases. Through the methodology of discourse analysis, this research with an exploratory approach, investigates 39 journalistic notes published by the newspaper El Universo between the months of April, May and June 2021. The article shows that the media gives greater importance to informative articles with 64.10%, followed by 23.07% of opinion articles and only 12.82% of interpretation articles. By means of these percentages it is concluded that, during the coverage of the case, the newspaper El Universo has as a priority to inform, but not to interpret and deepen on the subject. In addition, it is evident that investigative journalism is an important mechanism for the fight against corruption