Resumen

LEON-VAZQUEZ, Salvador De  y  PADILLA DE LA TORRE, María Rebeca. Collaborative Journalism and COVID-19: The Pandemic’s News Coverage in Mexican Digital Media. Culturales [online]. 2021, vol.9, e623.  Epub 16-Feb-2022. ISSN 2448-539X.  https://doi.org/10.22234/recu.20210901.e623.

This article presents an interpretative analysis of the news coverage of COVID-19 during the first months of its appearance in Mexico, in the context of a collaborative journalism initiative, intending to understand the practices of news production from a civic role of journalism concerning the pandemic. The study applied structured interviews to twenty-six journalists from different media and states of the country, most of whom were members of the #TómateloEnSerioMx initiative against disseminating false information. The results contribute to understanding news production practices, agenda-building, and newsworthiness criteria deployed in the coverage of pandemics under a collaborative journalism effort performed by independent digital media.

Palabras llave : Journalism; pandemics; Information Media.