Origin and weight of news media outlets indexed on google news: An exploration of the editions from Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico

Google News is a controversial news aggregation service owned by Google. By analyzing 3,738,375 news stories added in the Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico editions from January to March of 2015, 2,246 news media outlets were identified. In these editions, specific to their countries, large, popular, and...

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Autores:
Cobos Cobos, Tanía Lucía
Tipo de recurso:
Fecha de publicación:
2020
Institución:
Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar
Repositorio:
Repositorio Institucional UTB
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.utb.edu.co:20.500.12585/10350
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12585/10350
Palabra clave:
Google News
Media outlets
News aggregators
Infomediation
Latin America
Rights
openAccess
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Summary:Google News is a controversial news aggregation service owned by Google. By analyzing 3,738,375 news stories added in the Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico editions from January to March of 2015, 2,246 news media outlets were identified. In these editions, specific to their countries, large, popular, and traditional news media such as G1 (under Globo.com), Terra Brasil, El Universal, ElTiempo.com, and Caracol Radio had the highest rates of news aggregation in their respective country edition. This meant that they had greater visibility as well as a higher probability of receiving traffic from it, above the other indexed news media outlets.