Periodismo, comunicación institucional y transparencia:aprendizajes de la crisis sanitaria del COVID-19.

Abstract

The objective of the article is to extract learnings for the modification and improvement of the regulatory norms of transparency in Spain, in exceptional situations such as the state of alarm, so that it serves purposes such as to facilitate the accountability and work of journalism professionals. Methodology: For this, an analysis of the controversy on the lack of government transparency in the context of the state of alarm is carried out,, performing a reconstruction of the milestonesand circumstances that occurred between the months of March and May 2020 in relation to the State's government transparency, combining various sources of information such as statistics, CIS survey data, press news, legal reports and bibliography. Results:the analysis confirms the insufficiencies of the transparency regulations detected in the literature by experts and journalists. Among them, the lack of recognition of access to public information as a fundamental right, the excess of deadlines to respondto requests for access, the limited use to develop data journalism or the weakness of the Council of Transparency and Good Governance, apart from a general lack of provisions to make accountability effective in health and the use of emergency contracts.