Religious journalism and the information about the Spanish Holy Week

Abstract

Within the religious journalism, the coverage of acts related to the Holy Week occupies a special, important place in the media of some Spanish regions, specially in the South of the country. But until now, it’s a field barely studied by the scholar research. This work aims to know the treatment that this celebration and its main actors, the Brotherhoods, have in the media, taking the local press of the city of Malaga as our study object. So, we analyze 390 texts related to the Holy Week published during 2017 in the newspapers Sur, La Opinión de Málaga and Málaga Hoy. The results confirm the relevance of this phenomenon in the local media, and how its treatment is characterized by the use of a high number of specialized terms, the group of contents and the use of informative, interpretative and argumentative genres. All these conclusions bolster the autonomous status of this reporting field.