Las estrategias redaccionales y discursivas de las crónicas de Santiago Segurola en El País (1986-2006) y Marca (2007-2016)

Abstract

Sport is one of the topics that occupy more space in the media and has become one of the major fields of study for the specialization of future journalists. However, there are still few academic studies in Spain that examine the works of great sports journalists. In the present doctoral thesis, Santiago Segurola’s journalistic work is analyzed in the generalist newspaper El País (2.788 texts) and in the specialized newspaper Marca (1.429 texts), under the theoretical and humanistic approaches of Journalism and Hermeneutics, and through the in-depth interview method of the author. The most fruitful lines of research in sports journalism in the theoretical framework are identified and addressed as: the new technologies, the ethics, the gender aspects, the construction of identities and the journalistic writing. The figure of Santiago Segurola is studied as an architect of the sports section of El País that created his own style as of the following characteristics: removal of red tape, merging of Madrid and Barcelona newsrooms, digitalization and global sports, detecting the journalistic talents and enhancing the wordings, giving moment and independence to the motor and large coverage of all sporting events, eliminating the preconceived opinions and the rumours of transfers, giving importance to the briefs and betting by journalists with vocation for sharing the stories. In this qualitative research, a sub-corpus of 45 sports diaries has been selected and there is evidence of a marked influence of the New Journalism in the works of Santiago Segurola, which develops a multitude of stylistic techniques such as the use of dialogues, metaphors, cultural references or popular expressions, and structural techniques such as circular chronicles by thesis or the organization of ideas. In addition, Santiago Segurola introduces into Spanish modern sports journalism the gender of anti-chronicle and the essay of the chronicle and its innovative style has influenced other sports journalists on the national scene.

Date of Award	19 Oct 2018
Original language	Spanish
Awarding Institution	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Supervisor	Sergi Cortiñas Rovira (Director) & David Vidal Castell (Tutor)