Gender violence and journalistic information. Written press perspective on the protest of March 8, 2020 in Mexico City: an approximation

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze the headlines of three newspapers in Mexico City about the massive demonstration on March 8, that denounced the growing gender violence in Mexico and demanded an end to femicide. The analysis is carried out through the methodology of discourse analysis and the syntactic categories (verbal and adjectival nominalization) and pragmatic linked to the context. The approach to the headlines expressed coincidences: the three newspapers published information in Front Page. The specificities yielded interesting results. The agenda of La Jornada and Excélsior had coincidences, including in the verb used and the extension dedicated to the event, while El Sol de México registered the event also in the Front Page, although it highlighted (due to the size of the headline) the increase in the depreciation of the peso against the dollar. After the explicit and the syntactic analysis, the implicit, the ideological tendencies of the newspapers and the orientation of their agenda are inferred. The coverage of the march was inevitable, not the form (and substance) as expressed in the headlines, whose choice is due to the fact that they constitute the first information known (and sometimes the only) readers.