Beyond anthropocentrism: how journalists make the more-than-human world visible in Spanish written media

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dc.contributor.authorRuiz Carreras, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-31T10:48:01Z
dc.date.available2026-08-31T10:48:01Z
dc.date.issued2026-08-20
dc.description.abstractNon-human animals are systematically excluded from public narratives, rarely recognized as sentient subjects, and instead framed within anthropocentric narratives of production and consumption; efforts to challenge this pattern and make the more-than-human world visible often encounter editorial resistance and structural constraints. This study examines how anti-speciesist journalists in Spanish written media navigate such resistance to make non-human animals legitimate subjects of news. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with nine self-identified anti-speciesist journalists, analysed through reflexive thematic analysis, the study identifies strategies organized across four non-mutually exclusive categories, namely, discursive, relational, framing, and structural, ranging from self-censorship and strategic language use to coalition-building and the creation of independent platforms. Findings reveal a key distinction between visibility strategies, which succeed in securing publication, and root-level strategies, which challenge the carnist and anthropocentric assumptions structuring newsworthiness itself. These practices reveal the pragmatism, creativity, and resilience of journalists working under structural, ideological, and normative constraints, while also highlighting the limits of anti-speciesist reporting within mainstream media. The study contributes to Critical Animal Media Studies, environmental communication, and journalism research by illuminating the intersection of ethical advocacy, professional strategy, and counter-hegemonic practice and offers recommendations for expanding coverage of the more-than-human world across ideological, editorial, and structural divides.en
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dc.identifier.authororcidRuiz Carreras, Maria
dc.identifier.citationRuiz Carreras, M. (2026) 'Beyond anthropocentrism: how journalists make the more-than-human world visible in Spanish written media', Journalism and Media, 7(3), (18pp). http://10.3390/journalmedia7030170
dc.identifier.issn2673-5172
dc.identifier.issued3
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournalism and Media
dc.identifier.startpage18
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/19141
dc.identifier.urlhttp://10.3390/journalmedia7030170
dc.identifier.volume7
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rights© 2026, the Author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.
dc.subjectAnti-speciesist journalism
dc.subjectEditorial resistance
dc.subjectMedia visibility of animals
dc.subjectCritical animal studies
dc.subjectCounter-hegemonic media practices
dc.subjectSpeciesism
dc.subjectAnthropocentrism
dc.subjectMore-than-human world
dc.subjectAdvocacy journalism
dc.subjectEnvironmental communication
dc.subject[EngineeringArchitecture]
dc.titleBeyond anthropocentrism: how journalists make the more-than-human world visible in Spanish written mediaen
dc.typeArticle (Peer reviewed)
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