Periodismo móvil en los principales diarios digitales de la Región Andina

Abstract

Technological advances, the rise of smartphones, mobile Internet and social networks break into journalistic work. Today there are challenges for media and journalists, in environments integrated by profiles outside the trade. The objective of this research is to know and analyze the trends and innovations in mobile journalism of four reference digital newspapers in the Andean Region: lostiempos.com (Bolivia), eltiempo.com (Colombia), elcomercio.com (Ecuador) and elcomercio.pe (Peru) for being the pioneers in converging to the Internet and registering the highest number of visits according to the Newspaper Web Rankings | Latin America https://www.4imn.com/topLatin-America/ and Alexa Latin America listing www.alexa.com (2019). The methodology is qualitative and quantitative. The results determine that the investigated newspapers are in the process of adapting to mobile journalism, in the convergence they have adopted innovations such as journalistic infographics, professional and spontaneous video, gadgets, podcasts, apps, chatbots, on-demand content, innovation laboratories, journalism of data and cross platform. Social networks are allies in the dissemination of information. Experts and editors agree on a profile with professional and technical skills consistent with the mobile ecosystem.