TY - JOUR
T1 - ¿Qué pasa with American News Media? How Digital-Native Latinx News Serves Community Information Needs Using Messaging Apps
AU - Chacón, Lourdes M.Cueva
AU - Retis, Jessica
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 by The American Academy of Political and Social Science.
PY - 2023/5
Y1 - 2023/5
N2 - Traditional and legacy Spanish-language news outlets are shrinking, leaving many communities in the U.S. without news that satisfies their critical information needs. At the same time, news media entrepreneurs are adopting and adapting to technological changes that offer new venues for news delivery. We use a mixed-methods research approach to analyze Latinx digital-native news media organizations that distribute news in Spanish via mobile instant messaging (MIM) apps. Results show that journalists took a bottom-up approach to meeting the information needs of their audiences, choosing MIMs because their readers were already established on those platforms. Our work also reveals that news delivered via MIMs focuses mostly on health, emergencies and public safety, civic information, and economic development.
AB - Traditional and legacy Spanish-language news outlets are shrinking, leaving many communities in the U.S. without news that satisfies their critical information needs. At the same time, news media entrepreneurs are adopting and adapting to technological changes that offer new venues for news delivery. We use a mixed-methods research approach to analyze Latinx digital-native news media organizations that distribute news in Spanish via mobile instant messaging (MIM) apps. Results show that journalists took a bottom-up approach to meeting the information needs of their audiences, choosing MIMs because their readers were already established on those platforms. Our work also reveals that news delivered via MIMs focuses mostly on health, emergencies and public safety, civic information, and economic development.
KW - critical information needs
KW - Latinx digital native media
KW - mobile instant messaging
KW - Spanish-language media
KW - WhatsApp
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U2 - 10.1177/00027162231218542
DO - 10.1177/00027162231218542
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85186178749
SN - 0002-7162
VL - 707
SP - 237
EP - 255
JO - Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
JF - Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
IS - 1
ER -