The first reported case of transmission of the Ebola virus in Europe occurred in Spain. The subsequent management of communication surrounding the ‘outbreak’ brought about a crisis with implications for both health authorities and the media. This paper explores the management of institutional communication by the Ministry of Health, within the first forty-eight hours leading up to the diagnosis, as well as the Spanish press’ coverage of the “crisis of Ebola”. Focus will be placed on the analysis of the front pages of 6 Spanish newspapers (with the largest national circulation) as well as 17 regional newspapers, and their possible sensationalist impact within those first forty-eight hours (October 7th and 8th, 2014)

The first reported case of transmission of the Ebola virus in Europe occurred in Spain. The subsequent management of communication surrounding the ‘outbreak’ brought about a crisis with implications for both health authorities and the media. This paper explores the management of institutional communication by the Ministry of Health, within the first forty-eight hours leading up to the diagnosis, as well as the Spanish press’ coverage of the “crisis of Ebola”. Focus will be placed on the analysis of the front pages of 6 Spanish newspapers (with the largest national circulation) as well as 17 regional newspapers, and their possible sensationalist impact within those first forty-eight hours (October 7th and 8th, 2014)

The media play a key role in the script of the successful Netflix series The Crown (Peter Morgan, 2016-2020), since a multitude of information-related actions appear in its 40 episodes. Journalism is essential in the daily agenda of the royal family and politicians and it becomes the undisputed protagonist to unite the plot, even with some chapters in which it occupies more than half the time. To quantify the presence of journalism in the four seasons, this research uses a structuralist method inspired by the book Morphology of the story (1928), by Russian Vladimir Propp, which extracted 31 irreducible functions or actions after analyzing one hundred traditional stories. This work is based on the template made by itself Morphology of the journalist in the cinema, with 70 functions in three spheres: with high, medium and low impact of journalism. Among the conclusions, the constant presen...