RLCS, Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 72 – Pages 649 to 667 Funded Research | DOI: 10.4185/RLCS, 72-2017-1184| ISSN 1138-5820 | Year 2017 How to cite this article in bibliographies / References N López Vidales, L Gómez Rubio, D Vicente Torrico (2017): “Regional news in Spain‟s national radio and television and their contribution to the image of Spain‟s autonomous communities”. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 72, pp. 649 to 666. http://www.revistalatinacs.org/072paper/1184/34en.html DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-2017-1184 Regional news in Spain’s national radio and television and their contribution to the image of Spain’s autonomous communities Nereida López Vidales [CV] http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6960-6129 http://scholar.google.es/citations?user=d-h-uasAAAAJ&hl=es Full Professor of Journalism. Universidad de Valladolid / University of Valladolid (Spain)
[email protected] Leire Gómez Rubio [CV] http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6436-0297 http://scholar.google.es/citations?user=dufyKbUAAAAJ&hl=es Assistant Professor of Journalism. Universidad de Valladolid / University of Valladolid (Spain)
[email protected] David Vicente Torrico [CV] http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0379-6086 https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=3DMiJ-0AAAAJ&hl=es Researcher in training. Universidad de Valladolid / University of Valladolid (Spain)
[email protected] Abstract Introduction: National radio and television news programmes are daily sources of information for an increasing audience and, thus, are important tools in the shaping of the image of the Spanish autonomous communities that are represented in their news stories. The main objective of this article is to analyse the representations of the different Spanish autonomous communities in the regional news of mainstream national radio and television news programmes.