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The practice of journalism in Central American countries faces great challenges. The digital conversion of newsrooms has left a mark on the media in an unstable economic and political context and an increasingly competitive labor market to address a public that shows shortages. Our objective is to describe the impact of digitalization on journalistic production in media of Central America through the study of four countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) over ten years (2012-2021). We use methodological triangulation through the use of mixed qualitative and quantitative techniques (previous studies on journalistic digitization, 102 surveys of working journalists and 14 semi-structured interviews with experts) on three thematic axes: the impact of digitization on news production, the employment situation of journalists during the digital conversion process and the effec...