Representaciones sociales y riesgos para periodistas de Imbabura durante la cobertura periodística de la movilización indígena de junio de 2022

Abstract

In recent years, journalistic work in Ecuador has been threatened by a growing political polarization; This situation was evident especially during the latest social protests in the country, both in October 2019 and June 2022. The objective of this investigation is to establish the degree of threat that journalists from Imbabura faced during the coverage of the social mobilization called by CONAIE during June 2022. The investigation used a quantitative and descriptive cross-sectional methodology; As a research technique, a survey was applied to 46 journalists from the province of Imbabura from various communication media who, almost all of them, covered the social protest in the province; The study variables are: gender, type of media, aggression during coverage, type of aggression, person responsible for the aggression, perception of risk to their lives due to the aggression, limitation to carry out coverage, abandonment of coverage for fear of the aggression, coverage after the aggression; The universe investigated is made up of 46 journalists from the media in the province of Imbabura, Ecuador, to whom a survey of virtually 9 questions was applied. It was found that 86% of journalists claim to have been the victim of aggression during the journalistic coverage of the June 2022 mobilization and 52% were victims of verbal aggression during their work. It is concluded that the risk in journalistic work during the social mobilizations in Imbabura was high but that this problem is not visualized in the reports that organizations carry out when it comes to protecting journalist.