Cueva Chacón, Lourdes M.

Lourdes M. Cueva Chacón

San Diego, California, United States

Assistant Professor, School of Journalism & Media Studies, San Diego State University

Biography

Lourdes M. Cueva Chacón is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism & Media Studies at San Diego State University. She earned her PhD from The University of Texas at Austin and also holds a M.S. in Information Science from UNC Chapel Hill. Cueva Chacón has more than seven years of experience reporting the U.S.-Mexico border and Latinx communities. Her research areas include coverage of minoritized and marginalized communities in the U.S. and digital journalism in the Americas.

Scholarly beginnings

A research idea

Envisioning possible futures in the field of communication and media studies

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Selected readings

• Cueva Chacón, L. M. & Saldaña, M. (2021). Stronger and safer together: Motivations for and challenges of (trans)national collaboration in investigative reporting in Latin America. Digital Journalism, 9(2), 196-214.

• Retis, J., & Cueva Chacón, L. M. (2021). Mapping digital-native Latinx news media in the U.S.: Beyond geographical boundaries, language barriers, and hyper-fragmentation of audiences. #ISOJ 11(1).

• Cueva Chacón, L. M. (June 2021). Peru. In N. Newman, R. Fletcher, A. Schulz, S. Andı, C. T. Robertson, & R. K. Nielsen (Eds.), Digital News Report 2021. Reuters Institute.

• Cueva Chacón, L. M. (2020). A “Gentlemen’s Agreement:” The ways news discourse helps to perpetuate and challenge segregation. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas).

• Sinta, V., Cueva Chacón, L. M. & Rojas, V. (December 2018). Chapter 4: From a Latino-oriented niche to the “multicultural mainstream:” A comparison of Univision and Fusion’s most popular online news contents. In S. Yu & M. Matsaganis (Eds.), Ethnic Media in the Digital Era (pp. 44-56). Routledge.