Film festivals are places of encounter where different social actors come together, including professionals from the audio-visual industry, students, film buffs, and journalists, as well as the figures who organise these events. The aim of this research is to describe the journalistic coverage of film festivals carried out by the Ibero-American media, which is composed of generalist, traditional, specialised, and digital native outlets. The authors have used a qualitative methodology based on semi-structured interviews with film journalists and festival managers. The most significant findings reveal that each journalist develops their own particular type of frame building to cover an event, which is subject to the informative agenda of the media through which they are commissioned. At the same time, new actors such as influencers have also appeared, who report on the festivals as well. I...

COVID-19 halted social activities across the planet; including sports. The pandemic caused an unprecedented crisis in the audiovisual media that broadcast these events, which found themselves with the immediate need to restructure their content offer, for which they had to innovate in their production and programming processes. This research aims to describe the innovations in audiovisual journalistic production applied in sports media in various countries during the crisis caused by COVID-19. To comply with this, the qualitative approach was applied with the semi-structured interview technique to a sample of producers, journalists and filmmakers. The interview was oriented according to the main constituent stages of audiovisual production, such as pre-production, coverage and post-production. Based on what has been studied, it is concluded that the global crisis caused by the pandemic e...