El tratamiento informativo acerca de migrantes venezolanos por los medios ecuatorianos en sus sitios web y sus cuentas de Facebook. Estudio de caso: “El Diario”.

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to analyze the treatment of news about Venezuelan migrants in Ecuador. For this, the media outlet "El Diario" was used as a case study. The objective of which was to explore the journalistic notes published on its website and Facebook account, between the period of January 15 to March 15, 2020. The methodology was based on the technique of content analysis for the discursive review of the media pieces related to the issue of Venezuelan migrants. The results showed that the newspaper “El Diario” applied a differential treatment of the news of Venezuelan migration according to the platform used, since on its website half of the informative pieces obtained a negative evaluative tone of the facts, while the Facebook posts were mostly ambiguous, that is, they ranged between negative and undefined categories. Therefore, it was concluded that the medium has a different writing procedure for each platform and this could cause readers to misinterpret the events reported in the news pieces, which opens the possibility of generating or nurturing feelings of rejection or hatred of Venezuelan migrants.

Keywords: MIGRATION, VENEZUELAN, NEWS, NEWSPAPERS, JOURNALISM