Table Of ContentPALGRAVE STUDIES IN
JOURNALISM AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Journalism,
Data and Technology
in Latin America
Edited by Ramón Salaverría
Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos
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Ramón Salaverría Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos
School of Communication University of Navarra
University of Navarra Pamplona, Spain
Pamplona, Spain
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cknowledgments
The editors are grateful for the help of all the people involved in this proj-
ect and, more specifically, to the interviewees, authors, and reviewers who
took part in this manuscript process. In special, we want to thank Momi
Peralta and Florencia Coelho from La Nación (Argentina) who put us in
contact with several respondents. Also, we would show our sincere grati-
tude to the chapters’ authors who contributed their time and expertise to
this book even under difficult circumstances. Without their support, this
book would not have become a reality.
The editors also wish to acknowledge the valuable contributions of the
reviewers and editorial team regarding the improvement of quality,
coherence, and content presentation.
We want to express our gratitude to the JOLT project funded by the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program
(under the Marie Sklodowska Curie grant agreement—n° 765140) that is
responsible for creating this group of researchers who are investigating the
future of journalism.
Last, but not the least important, the editors give special thanks to their
families and numerous friends who have shown their feedback and support
during this project, after having a few long nights without sleeping well.
We hope our contribution, in some way, helps scholar community and
media practitioners to explore further the intersection between technology
and data on Latin American journalism.
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1 Transformation of the News Media Industry in the Global
South 1
Ramón Salaverría and Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos
2 The New Praxeology of Digital Journalism in Latin
America: Media Organizations Learn How to Walk by
Running 23
Lucia Mesquita and Kamila Fernandes
3 In a Search for Sustainability: Digitalization and Its
Influence on Business Models in Latin America 55
Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos and Lucia Mesquita
4 The Strategic Value of Data Journalism 97
Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos and Lucia Mesquita
5 Audience Metrics and News Decisions 137
Silvia-María Corzo and Ramón Salaverría
6 Do You Help Us Make the News? A Discussion of the Uses
of User-Generated Content by News Sites in Latin America 163
Gabriela Gruszynski Sanseverino and Giuliander Carpes
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7 News Consumption Through Social Media and Messaging
Applications 195
Giuliander Carpes and Gabriela Gruszynski Sanseverino
8 A Challenging Future for the Latin American News
Media Industry 229
Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos and Lucia Mesquita
Index 263
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Giuliander Carpes is a researcher on “The Impact of Platforms and
Infomediaries on Journalism” at the University of Toulouse III Paul
Sabatier, within the JOLT Project, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative
Training Network funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020.
Since 2014, he has been researching the effects of the platformization
of the Internet on news media. In 2015, he completed a MA in Media
& Business at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Silvia-María Corzo is a PhD researcher at Digital Unav—Center for
Internet Studies and Digital Life, bound to the School of Communication
at the University of Navarra, where she is working on a dissertation on the
impact of web metrics in newswork. Her research focuses on digital media
in Latin America. In the 2016–2017 academic year, she worked in the
Digital Communication Service of the University, where she carried
out the planning, management, and evaluation of content in digital
platforms, audience analysis, segmentation, and online strategies. In
2015, she earned a Master’s in Political and Corporate Communication
from the same university. From 2011 to 2015, she worked in
television and print media in Guatemala City. In 2019, she was a
visiting researcher at Northwestern University’s Department of
Communication Studies.
Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos is a researcher at the University of
Navarra, Spain, under the JOLT project, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie
European Training Network funded by the European Commission’s
Horizon 2020. Previously, he was a visiting researcher at the Queensland
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University of Technology, Australia. He completed the EU-funded mas-
ter’s qualification Digital Communication Leadership (DCLead) offered
by the University of Salzburg (Austria) and Aalborg University (Denmark).
He researches changing journalistic practice with a particular focus on
business models, data, and novel technologies.
Kamila Fernandes holds a PhD in Communication Studies from the
University of Minho, Portugal. She serves as an adjunct professor and
coordinator of the Journalism Course at the Federal University of Ceará.
She is also a researcher at the Center for Studies in Communication and
Society (CECS), Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho.
Lucia Mesquita is a researcher at the Dublin City University’s School of
Communications and Institute for Future Media and Journalism
(FuJo), School of Communications within the JOLT Project, a Marie
Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network funded by the European
Commission’s Horizon 2020. Before joining DCU, she was an MA
student at the School of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP), University
of Lisbon. She was also a journalist, having graduated from Universidade
Metodista de São Paulo (Brazil) in 2001. She is investigating the changing
political economy of digital journalism and its impact on the plurality and
the civic role of journalism.
Ramón Salaverría, PhD is Full Professor of Journalism and Associate
Dean of Research at the School of Communication, University of Navarra
(Pamplona, Spain), where he heads the Digital News Media Research
Group. He chaired the Journalism Studies Section of ECREA. Author of
over 250 scholarly publications, his research focuses on digital journalism
and disinformation, both in national and international comparative studies.
His research has been published in top-ranked scientific journals such as
Journal of Communication, Digital Journalism, International
Communication Gazette, Journalism Studies, and Journal of Computer-
Mediated Communication, among others.
Gabriela Gruszynski Sanseverino is a researcher on “Politics and Ethics
of User-Generated Content” at the University of Toulouse III Paul
Sabatier, as part of the JOLT Project, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative
Training Network funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020.
She has a BA in Social Communication—Journalism, and a MA in
Communication and Information from the Federal University of Rio
Grande do Sul (Brazil).
