“…These changes have generated debates and controversies around the role of journalism and journalists, as well as reassessments of legal frameworks and a new legislation for policies on media and communication due to the obvious antagonism between owners of private media conglomerates (market supporters), leaders of progressive governments who are considered to be populists, and communication professionals themselves (Oller, Amado & Moreira, 2016). In the case of Andean countries, the state has clearly had a hand in regulating journalism over the last few years with the creation of regulation agencies for media which promote the free expression of rights and opinions of citizens (Suing, Ortiz & González, 2016). But Mexico, Chile, Colombia and El Salvador continue to have a concentration of media ownership, conspiracies as part of their daily journalistic practices (Guerrero & Marquez, 2014;Hellmueller & Mellado, 2016;Garces & Arroyave, 2016), and attacks against journalists (Hughes et al, 2017).…”