Mexican watchdogs : the rise of a critical press since 1980 / Andrew Paxman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paxman, Andrew, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalists--Mexico--History.

Journalists.

Journalists--Violence against--Mexico--History.

Public interest groups--Mexico--History.

Public interest groups.

Press and politics--Mexico--History--20th century.

Press and politics.

Press and politics--Mexico--History--21st century.

Journalists--Violence against.

Journalists--History.

Press and politics--History.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 353 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 24 cm

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 cooperation. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A history of violence and resistance

An expatriate memoir

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

The Fourth Estate and the "fourth transformation."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469684970

1469684977

9781469684987

1469684985

OCLC:

1528508226

Publisher Number:

CIPO000296544