Eyewitness as a chronicle special typology: a definition proposal
Abstract
In the absence of academic and bibliographic references, this research deals with studying the journalistic text called eyewitness, framing it into the theory of journalistic genres and the journalism typologies, determining its characteristics and making a definition proposal. The evolution of traditional journalistic genres is verified and so the need to give the eyewitness its own entity as it brings together specific features that differentiate it from other subgenres, both in form and content. The eyewitness is a journalistic piece with specific characteristics included in the interpretive genre and which requires a reformulation of the traditional classification by assuming the presence of the first person (I) in a subgenre other than opinion, in which being present is essential and even experimentation by the journalist.
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