Objectivity and ethnicity in the production of the<i>Noticiero Univisión</i>¹

Abstract

This study analyzes the production of the Noticiero Univisión, the nightly national newscast of the largest U.S. Spanish language television network, as an interaction between the demands of the commercial enterprise Univisión, the twin social forces of panethnicity and panamericanism, the professional ideals of the U.S.‐trained journalists, and the Latino ethnic identification of the journalists and their imagined audience. The study draws on a comparative content analysis with ABC's World News Tonight, and a production ethnography.