Photography in press media: comparative analysis of the treatment of the images of the Haití (2010) and Japan (2011) earthquakes in Spanish press.

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Jessica Fernández Vázquez

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To report on the earthquake of Haiti of January, 2010 and the tsunami that devastated Japan in March, 2011 supposed a communicative challenge for the journalists, because the facts became international news. For the press media, the photographies were a fundamental resource to report the catastrophes, because they evoke feelings, have a emotive power and a big communicative force. After a formal analysis and content, with this investigation there was verified how the photographic treatment and the informative line of the principal press media of Spain, ABC, El Mundo and El País was very different in each of the cases object of study. If we compare the images published after each of the facts, we verify that the diaries coincided with the way of treating the catastrophes and that the social perception of the countries seem to determine the representation that they will have of the human drama and the destruction in the mass media.

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Fernández Vázquez, J. (2013). Photography in press media: comparative analysis of the treatment of the images of the Haití (2010) and Japan (2011) earthquakes in Spanish press. AdComunica, 189–204. https://doi.org/10.6035/2174-0992.2013.6.11
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