“…The dislocation of news journalism, a process linked to the dependency of news media on platform companies, has made the production of specific and meta-communication content for social networks an imperative (Ekström and Westlund, 2019), while new visual microformats are developed in which the news is reduced to its minimum unit (Silva et al, 2017). In their adaptation to social networks, the media have: experimented with live blogging or streaming through platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Periscope or Snapchat (Artwick, 2018;Haimson and Tang, 2017;Hewett, 2015;Matheson and Wahl-Jorgensen, 2020); explored new formats for Twitter (García-Avilés and Arias Robles, 2016); sought a closer relationship with users through private instant messaging networks such as WhatsApp and Telegram (Boczek and Koppers, 2020;Dodds, 2019;Negreira-Rey et al, 2017) and joined in the production and distribution of ephemeral content, first through Snapchat and then with a more solid commitment to Instagram Stories (Anderson, 2015;Bayer et al, 2016;Vázquez-Herrero et al, 2019).…”