Spanish sports newspapers. Comparative analysis of the main news from the front page in the newspapers "Marca", "As", "Mundo Deportivo" y "Sport"

Abstract

In Spain, sports newspapers have a great diffusion; even one of these newspapers, Marca, is the most read in Spain, above El País and El Mundo. In this research, a comparative analysis is carried out, through a content analysis applied on an intentional sample, of the main news that appear in the front pages of the newspapers Marca, As, Mundo Deportivo and Sport. The results invite us to think that football is the sport with a greater number of covres, without presence of women and no presence of arbitrary controversy. We also conclude that Real Madrid is the focus of attention in Marca and As while Barcelona is in Sport and Sport. We also conclude that there are significant differences in the journalistic gender of the news according to the months and that there is some homogeneity in the lexicon used. Finally, we conclude certain thematic and photographic similarities between Marca-As and Mundo Deportivo-Sport