El ejercicio de los derechos a la comunicación desde la perspectiva de los periodistas, durante las manifestaciones sociales en Ecuador, en Octubre de 2019.

Abstract

Abstract: The research on the exercise of communication rights from the perspective of journalists during the social demonstrations in Ecuador, in October 2019, has set a precedent in the history of communication, journalistic work and the events that occurred during this period in the city of Quito, the media through its journalists assumed an important role by being in charge of showing the minute by minute of the events.Several objectives were set in order to determine the guarantees of communication rights in the professional exercise, and to identify the risk factors to which journalists and social communicators who were assaulted in the media were exposed. For this purpose, a descriptive, qualitative-quantitative, bibliographic and proactive research was used through the application of techniques and instruments.Finally, the results in the groups surveyed gave the same criteria when referring that the journalists were subjected to aggressions, concluding that they assumed risks and did not have the guarantees to carry out their journalistic work, in addition it was evidenced that the traditional media lost credibility.