Collaborative Journalism and Normative Journalism: Lessons from Latin American Journalism

Collaboration in journalism has become increasingly important, the face of challenges posed by digitalisation and platformization. The development information communication technologies led to collaborative committed democratic public-oriented methods. However, it is unclear how this commitment reflected practice, whether varies according political, economic media system contexts, especially non-democratic authoritarian regimes. Latin America a diverse region with history social, political instability, alternating between This context can help answer research question study, which aims understand commitments, norms values practitioners various contexts. thematic analysis 36 semi-structured, in-depth interviews conducted found that commonly share normative roles, practices, norms. study suggests need reinforce, restore reform values, particularly non-democratic, authoritarian, developing democracies. be valuable resource for future researchers exploring journalism, investigative beyond Western liberal