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OUR CHANNELS
News
Informativos Telecinco is the leading news programme
on commercial television. It is produced by Telecinco and
the Atlas España agency and directed by Pedro Piqueras.
2011 has been a crucial and challenging year for both
Informativos Telecinco and Noticias Cuatro, in view
of their merger into the single Mediaset España news
production structure.The commitment to independence
and to an editorial line which characterised both has
remained intact irrespective of the merger process. This
commitment is described in greater detail in the section
entitled “Our business”.
2011 has been a year marked by both the financial
downturn and a change of government. Throughout the
year,
InformativosTelecinco
has sought to bring television
viewers closer to those issues and news stories of
greatest social impact.These have included, most notably,
the following:
• The economic downturn
has been the issue to
which most coverage has been given by Informativos
Telecinco throughout 2011. It has focused on
the macro-economic aspects of the downturn –
par ticularly the instability in the Euro zone – and on its
impact on people, as reflected in countless repor ts of
a more personal nature. And it is not only the adverse
consequences of the downturn which have been
addressed. Enterprising initiatives embarked upon in
response to the crisis have also been focused on.
• The emerging
mass protest movements
such as
15-M, which has become a worldwide benchmark
for such phenomena, or the mass protests in Arab
countries, in which young people and women have
played a significant role, have been the focus of much
attention. In relation to both the Arab Spring and the
15-M movement, analyses have been made of the role
played by the ever-more-influential social networks as
a channel of participation.
• Another issue with a profound social impact which has
been addressed has been
gender-based violence.
The
coverage given to this matter has emphasized both the
criminal law penalties and the moral issues involved
in acts of this kind. They also stress the impor tance
of awareness-raising, to ensure that possible cases of
gender-based violence are repor ted. The Repor teros
team of Informativos Telecinco spent time living with
women who had managed to escape situations of
domestic violence.
• Both the society sections of news programmes and
the Repor teros team have focused par ticular attention
on
internet security,
with repor ts put together in
collaboration with the police branch specializing in
internet offences.
• The accident at the
Fukushima nuclear power plant
in Japan
received extensive news coverage. A team
was sent to the disaster area to repor t directly on the
events as they unfolded.
• Official
energy saving
campaigns have been publicized
by Informativos Telecinco, its Repor teros team
addressing this issue in greater depth.
• Attention has also been paid to campaigns which aim to
raise awareness of particular diseases
. Pedro Piqueras,
for example, who is the director of Informativos
Telecinco and the presenter of the 21:00 news bulletin,
has allowed his image to be used in the dissemination
at national level of the campaign against breast cancer.
Work to raise awareness of rare diseases has also been
highlighted through the Federación de Afectados por
Enfermedades Raras.
• Political corruption
stories have also been featured
prominently, by both Informativos Telecinco and
Noticias Cuatro.These include, most notably, the major
scandals which first came to light in prior years, such
as the Gür tel, Matas, Brugal and Malaya cases, and the
corruption involving lay-off proceedings in Andalucía,
as well as the much talked-about lack of transparency
in compensation payments received by cer tain
directors of Savings Banks which had been taken into
administration or had received funds from the State.
The Repor teros section has focused more closely and
in greater depth on sensitive issues which need to be
approached in a more personal, and at the same time
more analytical way.
• WIDOWS WITHOUT THE RIGHT TO MOURN.
Women who have had no news of their husbands
for years. They suffer the loss and build up debts. In
practical terms, they are widows although the law does
not recognize them as such.