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Based on the existence of a social reality constructed by the media, we want to know which concepts, reviews and trends are on the media about public records, since the contents of the news shows us key characteristics of social knowledge about this public service. We selected the highest-rated media and we evaluated their information retrieval systems. This process led us to limit the scope to the digital version of high-circulation newspapers and narrow the search terms. We find that a positive treatment dominates most news about public archives, highlighting its role as a memory deposit that allows us to investigate the past, the public effort to preserve the service, and its role as reference point for cultural activities.

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The objective of this study is to explore the presence of Spanish think tanks in national and international media based on a quantitative analysis of content published on 70 think tanks over 15 years (2004-2018). The published content was obtained through Factiva®, a database from Dow Jones & Company, that provides access to more than 35,000 mass media around the world. The results suggest that the representation of think tanks in the media has gradually increased over the years, regardless of the economic cycle or political situation, quadrupling over the analyzed period. Moreover, an increase of the hegemony of a few think tanks in the grouping of messages on the public debate and their concentration in a few media and media agencies are confirmed.

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A deliberative democracy should be characterized by the principle of justice regarding the participation of those affected in matters of interest to them. However, this principle is not always satisfied in many areas of social communication. This becomes particularly serious in the case of those who are affected by such matters but are in a vulnerable condition. This is the case in the area of information concerning older people, who remain underrepresented in terms of both quantity and quality in content related to them. This article presents data that highlight this fact, obtained from a questionnaire sent to 100 media professionals specialized in content for the elderly in Spain. The results of this questionnaire reflect, among other aspects, the extent to which professionals specialized in this field consider the presence of older people in the media to be low or very low and also serve to raise awareness of the discriminatory image that the media often transmits. The data obtained from the questionnaire sent to professionals also confirm that the image transmitted by the media is stereotyped, does not show the plural image of this group, and therefore does not fit its reality.