Abstract:
"El periodismo es el mejor oficio del mundo”, decía Gabriel García Márquez, pero
¿qué pensaría ahora Gabo si viese que, eso que tanto amaba, se ha transformado a un
ritmo vertiginoso en una máquina de negocios completamente diferente?
Y es que, a decir verdad, tanto la forma de hacer periodismo co... Ver más
‘Journalism is the best job in the world’, said Gabriel García Márquez, but what
would Gabo think now if he saw that, what he loved so much, has transformed at a
dizzying pace into a completely different business machine?
And, to tell the truth, both the way of doing journalism and journalism itself,
whether due to economic, technological or social factors, have undergone various
transformations (Peiró, 2018). Because with the arrival of technology, many have opted
for other aspects of journalism, such as digital marketing, thus abandoning the classic
way of doing journalism, but that is not the crux of the matter: the problem occurs when
both the traditional press as the journalistic essence they are forced to change, mainly due
to the crisis (Reig, 2015).
For this reason, this work studies the evolution that advertising has undergone -
traditionally, the first economic support of newspapers- (J. Valera, 2018) in the Diario
Información de Alicante throughout the 21st century. With this goal in mind, the results
have been very clear: the number of pages in the newspaper is decreasing, as well as the
number of ads. In turn, the color advertisements are replacing the traditional black and
white propaganda and, finally, the newspaper ends up mainly advertising self-promotion
articles with booklet offers.
To carry out this project, a mainly quantitative analysis has been used, since much
of the work has consisted of extracting the data from the newspapers one by one and
classifying them in a database, organizing them there according to various factors.
However, qualitative analysis is also used: it seeks to understand how the crisis has
affected not only journalism in general, but specifically in this medium.
Likewise, this study is completed with the completion of an interview with one of
the most qualified professionals to do so: Juan Ramón Gil, General Director of Contents
and former director of Diario Información, who has experienced the crisis firsthand.
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