Peace-oriented media coverage of conflicts: the report of the Catalan Bru Rovira

Abstract

In this article, a theoretical and interpretive investigation about Peace Journalism is developed, based on the study of the narrative of the Catalan reporter Bru Rovira on the conflicts unleashed in Liberia in 2004. A referential bibliography on the field of Peace Communication is revisited in order to identify in the report Liberia: the war of modern times , originally published in the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia , the procedures that characterize peace-oriented journalistic coverage, according to Lynch and McGoldrick (2000). It is concluded, from this analytical study, that the news production of Rovira presents a complex and contextual approach to the Liberian reality in the post-Cold War and interested in collecting testimonies from anonymous social actors involved in the conflicts.