From the outbreak to the truce, informative narratives during the war on Gaza 2023–24 in the Latin American press

The world has not been blind to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, thanks to the media. This research aims to unravel media management in the coverage of the war on Gaza and other Palestinian cities in the Latin American press, through the analysis of informative narratives that are rarely addressed in the international discussion and in the approaches of the editors of five journalistic platforms. The research combines content analysis and interviews in order to recognize the predominant frames, to verify the accuracy of the information against bias and misinformation and to identify the work routines in the output of the news. It concludes that the coverage has confronted two media frames: conflict and human interest; the former is evident in the journalistic narrative, in the prioritization of topics, actors and sources; the latter is found in the testimonies of the editors and their personal framings. The research found that journalists avoided the usual orientalisms in their news reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian situation but did not avoid contextual biases and misinformation. Despite the distance between the Middle East and Latin America, this war has altered the working and organizational routines of the media outlets hereby examined.