abstract
- © 2022 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. All rights reserved.This study investigates the journalistic sources used in the Mexican press in news about feminicide. The aim is to analyze the dynamics of the sources' selection regarding gender and its official status (officiality). The research is quantitative and studies the content on feminicide and gender violence in four newspapers of national circulation: La Jornada, Reforma, El Universal and Milenio during 2017. Of 1324 news pieces emerged 2091 sources for analysis. These were classified with a pre-established model: official sources that accept the official version regarding the information on the facts of femicide, officials who reject the official version, protagonists of the events, victims of the situations and specialists, experts or willing to express themselves. The result shows that the female sources question the official version, while the male ones support and sustain it; female sources also have greater presence as experts regarding femicide. The female sources build the critical discourse on femicide, while male sources support the hegemonic discourse. The research confirms a high level of discrimination against women as official sources of information about feminicide in Mexico. Gender is a category that the media use to discriminate the valid sources in the construction of the news event.