La falta de investigación periodística y el dictamen culposo de David Piña. Caso: El Telégrafo

Abstract

In this investigative work, we will work on elements identified in the Manual for investigative journalists to identify the techniques of conventional journalism and investigative journalism, with respect to news handled on a digital platform. In this way, when carrying out the analysis worked in the investigation, the use of journalism techniques handled in 19 publications of the newspaper El Telégrafo in the David Piña case is revealed. The investigation was taken from the beginning of the case on February 27, 2013, where the body of the young Karina del Pozo is found, and later the decision of the Prosecutor's Office to transfer David Piña to prison No. 4 in Quito on 28 August 2019. This analysis adapts the type of journalism that is carried out on the digital platform of the newspaper El Telégrafo, which is determined to handle conventional journalism and does not comply with journalistic investigation techniques, proposed by Mark Lee Hunter in his book Research from stories. Manual for investigative journalists. In the theoretical framework, academic works will be identified around the case of Karina del Pozo where David Piña is located, in addition to the theories of communication, such as the hypodermic needle and finally the Spiral of Silence.