Legal changes about family Law in Spain are important in recent past. One reason for this is the social change with a predicable storytelling in the Press. Relationships, engagements, marriages and families are an important content in gossip press, so this paper wants to measure their presence in this kind of press. That’s why this study analyzes the selection of news and their values in the covers of the most important Spanish gossip magazine, ¡Hola! from 2000 to 2004, the period of legal changes.

The journalistic images are subject to debate and controversy: from the girl of Trang Bang to the most recently images of women and female kids during the earthquake and the cholera epidemic in Haiti in 2010, comments on the symbolic and communicative value of the pictured subject keep occurring. The press images awarded as “photo of the year” by World Press Photo in the period between 2000 and 2011 represent international conflicts and disasters where the main characters are mostly women and children, plenty of drama and pathos. The axes of the discussion are the main photography situation on thedaily journal front page, against the right to privacy, the iconic representation of the sick people and victims of disasters and the social discussion through the network.

Legal changes about family Law in Spain are important in recent past. One reason for this is the social change with a predicable storytelling in the Press. Relationships, engagements, marriages and families are an important content in gossip press, so this paper wants to measure their presence in this kind of press. That’s why this study analyzes the selection of news and their values in the covers of the most important Spanish gossip magazine, ¡Hola! from 2000 to 2004, the period of legal changes.

The journalistic images are subject to debate and controversy: from the girl of Trang Bang to the most recently images of women and female kids during the earthquake and the cholera epidemic in Haiti in 2010, comments on the symbolic and communicative value of the pictured subject keep occurring. The press images awarded as “photo of the year” by World Press Photo in the period between 2000 and 2011 represent international conflicts and disasters where the main characters are mostly women and children, plenty of drama and pathos. The axes of the discussion are the main photography situation on thedaily journal front page, against the right to privacy, the iconic representation of the sick people and victims of disasters and the social discussion through the network.