English abstract:
Internet has become an alternative source used by journalists due to cover and enrich their news, since IT tools have provided a quick and useful process to include digital material in the production of news. The authors of this essay have monitored the total of Internet pictures, sounds and websites included in the main news programs of TVE (TD1, TD2 and La 2 Noticias), and have written a register of the captures made from this kind of material in the company server to verify their origins. Moreover, the authors analyzed which areas of the press room (distinguishing among Culture, Society, Sports, International and National information) resort to the web for their news more frequently; which functions they give to this audiovisual material (if it’s the main subject of the news, if it’s complementary to the plot or fact of the news or if it hasn’t got any connection with the contents); and, finally, the quantitative importance internet pictures have in the total of the sample studied.