Childhood and adolescence as news in El Salvador

Abstract

In El Salvador, only 7 % of the news published in the press, radio and television are related to childhood, adolescence and youth. This article is based on research done in 2012 and in which we conducted a content analysis of 292 informative texts published between June and July of that year. The study states that when the media writes about children and adolescents is done cold, concrete, without delving into the problems, there are no positive proposals to solve the problem, and the information is written without context. Informational texts about this topic do not have much importance in the media for only a small percentage of them appear on the covers or holders. This research was made by Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador with financial support from Unicef. This article only presents a part of the descriptive results for the research conducted.

Entorno, august 2013, issue 53: 76-85