Aproximación al proceso periodístico Panama Papers – Paradise Papers desarrollado por los medios El Universo y El Comercio.

Abstract

The present work is dedicated to analyze the journalistic work in the case of Panama Papers, specifically in the media El Comercio and El Universo. To this end, the concept of journalistic processes, digital journalism and new trends such as the leak genre are theoretically described. The understanding of these topics helps the development of the rest of the study which is based on a qualitative and quantitative method, which allows an approximation of the journalistic processes of said case exclusively in the Ecuadorian context. The data provided by the ICJ platform is filtered and interviews are carried out with three journalists who were part of the ICIJ group. The main conclusion is that although the profile of communication professionals has achieved a breakthrough by incorporating new skills in the manipulation of bigdata and knowledge of offshore modalities in the country, there is still much to be incorporated into the mechanisms and technological tools for the development and takeoff of leak genre journalism in the national media.