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Postwar Salvadoran Journalism: Rise and Consolidation of the Digital Press
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The aim of this paper is to describe from a historical method, how some investigative digital media were born in El Salvador after the war. The financing model they use moves away from the traditional model of commercial advertising and state propaganda that characterized the Salvadoran media for almost 100 years. At a theoretical level, the notions of journalism in its role as a political actor, the professionalization of journalism and investigative journalism are considered. A historical-structural methodology is used with primary and secondary sources that show the historical, structural, technological, and institutional mediations of these media. It is concluded that the effects of media concentration, the lack of regulation, the low plurality of voices and the lack of autonomy in the traditional media resulted in an independent type of journalism that tries to gain a space in public discourse.
