El periodismo público: incidencia de la participación como parte del nuevo escenario de la comunicación

Abstract

This work, a complex degree-examination modality, analyzes how public journalism has taken relevance in the communication scenario, as it seeks to give citizens greater participation and the possibility of generating content from their personal or collective interest. Of course, the generation of these contents also implies the application of ethical regulations so that the journalistic contents are of quality and also promote citizen participation. Citizen participation must also be framed in the possibility that every citizen can participate in social processes, recognizing that they have duties, but also rights. What it is proposed to demonstrate in this paper, is to demonstrate citizen participation in the contents of traditional media such as the printed newspapers of the city of Machala: Correo, Opinión and Nacional and how these media, use the information that generates citizen participation to make visible issues that are established in the Organic Law of Social Participation and Social Control. In this regard, the methodology applied was based on the use of the following techniques: content analysis, interviews with specialists and three citizen movements in the city of Machala. As a result, it is evident that the print media of the province of El Oro focus on the issue of citizen journalism in terms of information from the Municipality, private entities, reporting tasks to neighborhoods and citizen complaints, which are produced by citizens, such bulletins and news sometimes go through the filter of the Editorial Chiefs.