Transformation of journalism practices in Colombia

Uribe Jongbloed, Enrique ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9415-7628 and Llanes, Monica Parada 2024. Transformation of journalism practices in Colombia. Volkmer, Ingrid, Mutsvairo, Bruce, Bebawi, Saba, Heinrich, Ansgard and Castillo, Antonio, eds. Ecologies of Global Risk Journalism: Conceptualizing Local Journalism in an Era of Deep Disruptions, London: Routledge, pp. 29-49. (10.4324/9781003431268-4) Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, legacy news media companies in Colombia exhibited a decline in consumption, staff reductions, media outlets convergence, and a strong dependency on State-sponsored advertisement. At the same time, digital news platforms emerged as independent from State-supported advertisement, based on grants or small-scale subscriptions or advert sales, with smaller personnel numbers. Data journalism was the trend, focusing on quantitative information and infographics. The global pandemic accelerated some ongoing processes while effectively bringing other issues back to the fore. Under the framework of the Global Risk Journalism Hub project, 72 journalists were surveyed, and 12 in-depth interviews were conducted to assess the changes in production practices, procedures, and narratives in a scenario of global risks. The main results provide evidence of an acceleration in the financial demise of legacy media and a sudden digitalisation of content, processes, and labour, setting legacy media against the more prepared digitally created outlets that had recently emerged. The global reality of the pandemic moved Colombian journalists to accommodate new forms of interaction, which had been kept to a minimum. This spearheaded the resurgence of a more story- and person-centred “slow” journalism in opposition to data-laden approaches, and more local and international participation and reliance on governmental sources took centre stage. In contrast, the overall conditions for journalists worsened after declining consumption and plummeting income.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9781032555720
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	24 January 2025
Date of Acceptance:	1 June 2024
Last Modified:	03 Feb 2025 10:21
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175558

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