Ruth Rodríguez-Martínez
Biographic Data
| ID | 4909396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Rodríguez-Martínez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodríguez-Martínez |
| SIGNATURE | RODRÍGUEZ-MARTÍNEZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5633-6126 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Media Ownership and Transparency in Spain
Media ownership concentration and transparency have become critical issues in Spain, especially as recent regulatory efforts aim to enhance accountability and media pluralism. This study explores the implications of concentrated and opaque ownership structures for editorial independence. It assesses the interplay of ownership concentration, ownership transparency, political affiliations, and financialisation and analyses the role played by Spanis…
Transparency in AI usage within fact-checking platforms in Spain and its ethical challenges
Transparency –encompassing methodological, financial, and source-related aspects, as well as the tools employed– is central to the operations of professional fact-checking platforms. However, the growing adoption of artificial intelligence tools in fact-checking introduces new ethical challenges. This research investigates the extent to which these platforms believe they should disclose their use of AI and assesses the current practices on their …
How Hispanic digital native media combat disinformation? Analysis of their ethical codes
Purpose Given the considerable challenges posed by disinformation to both society and journalism, how do news media outlets in Hispanic America and Spain address this pervasive global phenomenon? The purpose of this study is to evaluate the extent to which these outlets embrace recommendations from academic, professional and institutional spheres for countering false contents. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative content analysis was used us…
Explanatory Journalism within European Fact Checking Platforms
In the post-COVID era, explanatory journalism is undergoing a resurgence that can be attributed to the proliferation of false content disseminated via social networks and the maturation of fact checking initiatives. Fact checkers are beginning to delve into those topics that are recurrent targets of disinformation to make complex issues accessible to the public. This study investigates the characteristics and methodologies of contemporary explana…
La independencia de los periodistas frente a los regalos e interferencias económicas; una perspectiva comparada entre periodistas y ciudadanía
Dentro del proyecto de I+D+I, “MediaACES. Accountability y Culturas Periodísticas en España. Impacto y propuesta de buenas prácticas en los medios de comunicación españoles”, financiado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad de España, se ha llevado a cabo un trabajo de campo entre periodistas y ciudadanos sobre las buenas prácticas periodísticas y los sistemas de rendición de cuenta. Entre las cuestiones formuladas se ha planteado de qué…
Fact-Checking Interventions as Counteroffensives to Disinformation Growth
As democracy-building tools, fact-checking platforms serve as critical interventions in the fight against disinformation and polarization in the public sphere. The Duke Reporters’ Lab notes that there are 290 active fact-checking sites in 83 countries, including a wide range of initiatives in Latin America and Spain. These regions share major challenges such as limited journalistic autonomy, difficulties of accessing public data, politicization o…
Accountability of the media as seen by Spanish citizens
This article analyses the opinions of citizens on the core values of the so-called Media accountability: truthfulness, independence, transparency, public participation and respect for peoples’ rights. It also analyses citizens’ perceptions of various deontological instruments to measure the effectiveness of compliance with these ethical values. The qualitative methodology used to carry out this analysis is part of the R+D+I research project “Acco…
Media accountability in the age of social media
The mass media is increasingly promoting public participation. Taking as a starting point the participatory transparency concept enunciated by Karlsson (2010), our research studies the audience’s active role in holding Spanish media to account through a range of online tools. We study the role of the audience by analyzing the perceptions of two main actors: journalists and citizens. A two-fold methodology was adopted: a questionnaire survey of 22…
Media coverage of the Covid-19 crisis
This paper aims to present, analyze, and compare the main deontological recommendations published by various international institutions and organizations since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis. A total of 10 codes were identified from the period between February and April 2020, during which the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 outbreak a global pandemic. Additionally, three general and transnational model deontological texts pu…
A penny for your words. Job insecurity as the chief problem affecting Spanish professional journalism
In view of the difficult period professional journalism is going through and the challenges facing journalists in their day-to-day work, this paper seeks to identify the main problems affecting professional Spanish journalists from the perspective of journalists, citizens and experts. To this end, the research presents results obtained through surveys of Spanish journalists, citizen focus groups and in-depth interviews with experts. The findings …
Pluralismo informativo en la era de la deliberación digital
In a complex and ever-evolving landscape, the interaction that digital communication provides has irreversibly changed the meaning of media pluralism. In the era of digital deliberation, channels have multiplied, allowing perspectives to be contrasted across an international user community. Likewise, new participatory practices through the web and social networks require greater transparency from media organizations, which helps citizens make res…
Ética periodística y uso de imágenes en los atentados terroristas de Barcelona y Cambrils. Un análisis comparado de 14 medios digitales nacionales e internacionales
La cobertura periodística de los atentados terroristas de Barcelona y Cambrils en 2017 generó un intenso debate sobre la conveniencia de haber publicado ciertas fotografías e informaciones particularmente sensibles. El objetivo de esta investigación es examinar si la prensa digital nacional e internacional cumplió las principales normas deontológicas sobre el uso de imágenes exigibles en estos casos. Se analizan 14 medios de comunicación en sus v…
Media Accountability and Journalists
This paper analyses to whom Spanish journalists feel responsible. To achieve this objective, we sent out a survey to Spanish journalists to ascertain their opinion on this question. The journalists’ point of view was then compared with that of the general public though six focus groups consisting of Spanish citizens from six cities in Spain (Barcelona, Castellón, Madrid, Sevilla, Mondragón and Santiago de Compostela). Lastly, five in-depth interv…
Los atentados terroristas de Barcelona y Cambrils en la prensa online. Tratamiento informativo en El periódico, El país y The guardian
This article is focused on the media coverage of the terrorist attacks occurred in Barcelona and Cambrils, Spain, in August 2017. The study analyzes the digital version of three international newspapers: The guardian, El país and El periódico de Catalunya. The content they published is compared with the Code of Ethics of the Professional Journalists Association of Catalonia and the Guidelines on news coverage of terrorism from the Catalan Audiovi…
Criticism in journalism as an accountability instrument
Criticism in journalism has become a core accountability instrument, especially in recent years, thanks to the Internet and Web 2.0 technology. This paper presents part of an international study of journalism ethics, focusing on Spanish journalists relationship with criticism. The paper analyzes how they express, receive and value criticism, comparing their opinions to those of journalists in the international sample. An online survey was adminis…
Instrumentos de rendición de cuentas en España. Análisis comparativo en Cataluña, Galicia, Madrid y Valencia
The existence or lack of media accountability instruments in Catalonia, Galicia, Madrid, and Valencia is described. Among the 60 instruments analyzed are journalists associations and unions, press councils, codes of ethics, regulatory authorities, laws regulating the media, online media criticism by journalists bloggers, blogs about media written by members of the public, and viewers associations. A comparative perspective allows us to identify t…
La muerte de Franco y la Transición española a través de la prensa internacional
The aim of this article is to analyze the role and coverage of the foreign press surrounding the death of Franco and Spain’s consequent transition to democracy (19751978), at one of the most crucial moments of political change in Southern Europe within the ongoing context of the Cold War. The period under consideration runs from the death of Franco on the 20th of November 1975 to the ratification by referendum of the democratic Constitution on De…
Cibermedios y web 2.0
A model is proposed for analyzing online journalism from the perspective of suitability for certain quality parameters and, especially, in relation to certain indicators on the adoption of the characteristic features of web 2.0. This model has been tested with the analysis of eight online newspapers and the results are presented. The model has a modular nature, which permits its application, in whole or in part, to other research projects
Criticism in journalism as an accountability instrument
Criticism in journalism has become a core accountability instrument, especially in recent years, thanks to the Internet and Web 2.0 technology. This paper presents part of an international study of journalism ethics, focusing on Spanish journalists relationship with criticism. The paper analyzes how they express, receive and value criticism, comparing their opinions to those of journalists in the international sample. An online survey was adminis…
Cibermedios y web 2.0
A model is proposed for analyzing online journalism from the perspective of suitability for certain quality parameters and, especially, in relation to certain indicators on the adoption of the characteristic features of web 2.0. This model has been tested with the analysis of eight online newspapers and the results are presented. The model has a modular nature, which permits its application, in whole or in part, to other research projects
Media Accountability and Journalists
This paper analyses to whom Spanish journalists feel responsible. To achieve this objective, we sent out a survey to Spanish journalists to ascertain their opinion on this question. The journalists’ point of view was then compared with that of the general public though six focus groups consisting of Spanish citizens from six cities in Spain (Barcelona, Castellón, Madrid, Sevilla, Mondragón and Santiago de Compostela). Lastly, five in-depth interv…
Transparency in AI usage within fact-checking platforms in Spain and its ethical challenges
Transparency –encompassing methodological, financial, and source-related aspects, as well as the tools employed– is central to the operations of professional fact-checking platforms. However, the growing adoption of artificial intelligence tools in fact-checking introduces new ethical challenges. This research investigates the extent to which these platforms believe they should disclose their use of AI and assesses the current practices on their …
Instrumentos de rendición de cuentas en España. Análisis comparativo en Cataluña, Galicia, Madrid y Valencia
The existence or lack of media accountability instruments in Catalonia, Galicia, Madrid, and Valencia is described. Among the 60 instruments analyzed are journalists associations and unions, press councils, codes of ethics, regulatory authorities, laws regulating the media, online media criticism by journalists bloggers, blogs about media written by members of the public, and viewers associations. A comparative perspective allows us to identify t…
Explanatory Journalism within European Fact Checking Platforms
In the post-COVID era, explanatory journalism is undergoing a resurgence that can be attributed to the proliferation of false content disseminated via social networks and the maturation of fact checking initiatives. Fact checkers are beginning to delve into those topics that are recurrent targets of disinformation to make complex issues accessible to the public. This study investigates the characteristics and methodologies of contemporary explana…
Media accountability in the age of social media
The mass media is increasingly promoting public participation. Taking as a starting point the participatory transparency concept enunciated by Karlsson (2010), our research studies the audience’s active role in holding Spanish media to account through a range of online tools. We study the role of the audience by analyzing the perceptions of two main actors: journalists and citizens. A two-fold methodology was adopted: a questionnaire survey of 22…
Media coverage of the Covid-19 crisis
This paper aims to present, analyze, and compare the main deontological recommendations published by various international institutions and organizations since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis. A total of 10 codes were identified from the period between February and April 2020, during which the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 outbreak a global pandemic. Additionally, three general and transnational model deontological texts pu…
A penny for your words. Job insecurity as the chief problem affecting Spanish professional journalism
In view of the difficult period professional journalism is going through and the challenges facing journalists in their day-to-day work, this paper seeks to identify the main problems affecting professional Spanish journalists from the perspective of journalists, citizens and experts. To this end, the research presents results obtained through surveys of Spanish journalists, citizen focus groups and in-depth interviews with experts. The findings …
Pluralismo informativo en la era de la deliberación digital
In a complex and ever-evolving landscape, the interaction that digital communication provides has irreversibly changed the meaning of media pluralism. In the era of digital deliberation, channels have multiplied, allowing perspectives to be contrasted across an international user community. Likewise, new participatory practices through the web and social networks require greater transparency from media organizations, which helps citizens make res…
Los atentados terroristas de Barcelona y Cambrils en la prensa online. Tratamiento informativo en El periódico, El país y The guardian
This article is focused on the media coverage of the terrorist attacks occurred in Barcelona and Cambrils, Spain, in August 2017. The study analyzes the digital version of three international newspapers: The guardian, El país and El periódico de Catalunya. The content they published is compared with the Code of Ethics of the Professional Journalists Association of Catalonia and the Guidelines on news coverage of terrorism from the Catalan Audiovi…
La muerte de Franco y la Transición española a través de la prensa internacional
The aim of this article is to analyze the role and coverage of the foreign press surrounding the death of Franco and Spain’s consequent transition to democracy (19751978), at one of the most crucial moments of political change in Southern Europe within the ongoing context of the Cold War. The period under consideration runs from the death of Franco on the 20th of November 1975 to the ratification by referendum of the democratic Constitution on De…
Criticism in journalism as an accountability instrument
Criticism in journalism has become a core accountability instrument, especially in recent years, thanks to the Internet and Web 2.0 technology. This paper presents part of an international study of journalism ethics, focusing on Spanish journalists relationship with criticism. The paper analyzes how they express, receive and value criticism, comparing their opinions to those of journalists in the international sample. An online survey was adminis…
Cibermedios y web 2.0
A model is proposed for analyzing online journalism from the perspective of suitability for certain quality parameters and, especially, in relation to certain indicators on the adoption of the characteristic features of web 2.0. This model has been tested with the analysis of eight online newspapers and the results are presented. The model has a modular nature, which permits its application, in whole or in part, to other research projects
La muerte de Franco y la Transición española a través de la prensa internacional
The aim of this article is to analyze the role and coverage of the foreign press surrounding the death of Franco and Spain’s consequent transition to democracy (19751978), at one of the most crucial moments of political change in Southern Europe within the ongoing context of the Cold War. The period under consideration runs from the death of Franco on the 20th of November 1975 to the ratification by referendum of the democratic Constitution on De…
Criticism in journalism as an accountability instrument
Criticism in journalism has become a core accountability instrument, especially in recent years, thanks to the Internet and Web 2.0 technology. This paper presents part of an international study of journalism ethics, focusing on Spanish journalists relationship with criticism. The paper analyzes how they express, receive and value criticism, comparing their opinions to those of journalists in the international sample. An online survey was adminis…
Instrumentos de rendición de cuentas en España. Análisis comparativo en Cataluña, Galicia, Madrid y Valencia
The existence or lack of media accountability instruments in Catalonia, Galicia, Madrid, and Valencia is described. Among the 60 instruments analyzed are journalists associations and unions, press councils, codes of ethics, regulatory authorities, laws regulating the media, online media criticism by journalists bloggers, blogs about media written by members of the public, and viewers associations. A comparative perspective allows us to identify t…
Los atentados terroristas de Barcelona y Cambrils en la prensa online. Tratamiento informativo en El periódico, El país y The guardian
This article is focused on the media coverage of the terrorist attacks occurred in Barcelona and Cambrils, Spain, in August 2017. The study analyzes the digital version of three international newspapers: The guardian, El país and El periódico de Catalunya. The content they published is compared with the Code of Ethics of the Professional Journalists Association of Catalonia and the Guidelines on news coverage of terrorism from the Catalan Audiovi…
Media Accountability and Journalists
This paper analyses to whom Spanish journalists feel responsible. To achieve this objective, we sent out a survey to Spanish journalists to ascertain their opinion on this question. The journalists’ point of view was then compared with that of the general public though six focus groups consisting of Spanish citizens from six cities in Spain (Barcelona, Castellón, Madrid, Sevilla, Mondragón and Santiago de Compostela). Lastly, five in-depth interv…
Pluralismo informativo en la era de la deliberación digital
In a complex and ever-evolving landscape, the interaction that digital communication provides has irreversibly changed the meaning of media pluralism. In the era of digital deliberation, channels have multiplied, allowing perspectives to be contrasted across an international user community. Likewise, new participatory practices through the web and social networks require greater transparency from media organizations, which helps citizens make res…
Ética periodística y uso de imágenes en los atentados terroristas de Barcelona y Cambrils. Un análisis comparado de 14 medios digitales nacionales e internacionales
La cobertura periodística de los atentados terroristas de Barcelona y Cambrils en 2017 generó un intenso debate sobre la conveniencia de haber publicado ciertas fotografías e informaciones particularmente sensibles. El objetivo de esta investigación es examinar si la prensa digital nacional e internacional cumplió las principales normas deontológicas sobre el uso de imágenes exigibles en estos casos. Se analizan 14 medios de comunicación en sus v…
La independencia de los periodistas frente a los regalos e interferencias económicas; una perspectiva comparada entre periodistas y ciudadanía
Dentro del proyecto de I+D+I, “MediaACES. Accountability y Culturas Periodísticas en España. Impacto y propuesta de buenas prácticas en los medios de comunicación españoles”, financiado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad de España, se ha llevado a cabo un trabajo de campo entre periodistas y ciudadanos sobre las buenas prácticas periodísticas y los sistemas de rendición de cuenta. Entre las cuestiones formuladas se ha planteado de qué…
Fact-Checking Interventions as Counteroffensives to Disinformation Growth
As democracy-building tools, fact-checking platforms serve as critical interventions in the fight against disinformation and polarization in the public sphere. The Duke Reporters’ Lab notes that there are 290 active fact-checking sites in 83 countries, including a wide range of initiatives in Latin America and Spain. These regions share major challenges such as limited journalistic autonomy, difficulties of accessing public data, politicization o…
Accountability of the media as seen by Spanish citizens
This article analyses the opinions of citizens on the core values of the so-called Media accountability: truthfulness, independence, transparency, public participation and respect for peoples’ rights. It also analyses citizens’ perceptions of various deontological instruments to measure the effectiveness of compliance with these ethical values. The qualitative methodology used to carry out this analysis is part of the R+D+I research project “Acco…
Media accountability in the age of social media
The mass media is increasingly promoting public participation. Taking as a starting point the participatory transparency concept enunciated by Karlsson (2010), our research studies the audience’s active role in holding Spanish media to account through a range of online tools. We study the role of the audience by analyzing the perceptions of two main actors: journalists and citizens. A two-fold methodology was adopted: a questionnaire survey of 22…
Media coverage of the Covid-19 crisis
This paper aims to present, analyze, and compare the main deontological recommendations published by various international institutions and organizations since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis. A total of 10 codes were identified from the period between February and April 2020, during which the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 outbreak a global pandemic. Additionally, three general and transnational model deontological texts pu…
A penny for your words. Job insecurity as the chief problem affecting Spanish professional journalism
In view of the difficult period professional journalism is going through and the challenges facing journalists in their day-to-day work, this paper seeks to identify the main problems affecting professional Spanish journalists from the perspective of journalists, citizens and experts. To this end, the research presents results obtained through surveys of Spanish journalists, citizen focus groups and in-depth interviews with experts. The findings …
Explanatory Journalism within European Fact Checking Platforms
In the post-COVID era, explanatory journalism is undergoing a resurgence that can be attributed to the proliferation of false content disseminated via social networks and the maturation of fact checking initiatives. Fact checkers are beginning to delve into those topics that are recurrent targets of disinformation to make complex issues accessible to the public. This study investigates the characteristics and methodologies of contemporary explana…
Transparency in AI usage within fact-checking platforms in Spain and its ethical challenges
Transparency –encompassing methodological, financial, and source-related aspects, as well as the tools employed– is central to the operations of professional fact-checking platforms. However, the growing adoption of artificial intelligence tools in fact-checking introduces new ethical challenges. This research investigates the extent to which these platforms believe they should disclose their use of AI and assesses the current practices on their …
How Hispanic digital native media combat disinformation? Analysis of their ethical codes
Purpose Given the considerable challenges posed by disinformation to both society and journalism, how do news media outlets in Hispanic America and Spain address this pervasive global phenomenon? The purpose of this study is to evaluate the extent to which these outlets embrace recommendations from academic, professional and institutional spheres for countering false contents. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative content analysis was used us…
Media Ownership and Transparency in Spain
Media ownership concentration and transparency have become critical issues in Spain, especially as recent regulatory efforts aim to enhance accountability and media pluralism. This study explores the implications of concentrated and opaque ownership structures for editorial independence. It assesses the interplay of ownership concentration, ownership transparency, political affiliations, and financialisation and analyses the role played by Spanis…
Political science (18 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Journalism (11 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Media and Digital Communication (7 works) · Accountability (6 works) · Communication and COVID-19 Impact (6 works)