Mexican watchdogs the rise of a critical press since the 1980s Andrew Paxman

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paxman, Andrew, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalists.

Journalists--Violence against.

Public interest groups.

Press and politics.

Mexico.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2025

Summary:

"In the first narrative history in English of Mexico’s contemporary press, Andrew Paxman recounts the evolution of print media between the 1980s and the present. From widespread subservience towards authority to playing a watchdog role as the country democratized, Mexico’s media underwent drastic changes in its roles and functions. Paxman also traces how the media responded to outright state hostility and major threats to its existence, including a war on drugs that made Mexico the riskiest country for reporters outside a combat zone, a decline in revenue as readers and advertisers migrated to the internet, a partial return to government cooptation. Based on interviews with 180 current and former journalists and extensive research in newspaper libraries, Mexican Watchdogs interweaves critical analysis with the stories of key reporters, editors, and publishers as well as the trajectories of Mexico’s leading print and on-line media"-- JSTOR

Contents:

Prensa vendida : the (mostly) sell-out press, 1896–1988

Combative regional papers and the Salinas watershed

Siglo 21 : Guadalajara conceives a prodigy

Reforma : Monterrey conquers the center

Challenges on the left : Proceso

Challenges on the left : La Jornada

Under President Fox : the promise and problems of openness

The press and the powerful : AMLO, Calderón, Carlos Slim

Reporting on crime syndicates and the corrupt

President Peña Nieto : invented by television, crushed by the internet

Epilogue : the Fourth Estate and the “Fourth Transformation”

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 15, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Paxman, Andrew, 1967- Mexican watchdogs

ISBN:

9781469684994

1469684993

9781469687414

1469687410

OCLC:

1542923820