In elpais.com, the number of main authors is a long way off its competitor’s figures. The list is headed up by Ángeles Gómez with 6 texts, all from the BuenaVida magazine. She is followed by Carlos Laorden and Verónica Palomo, with 5 articles.

It appears that most texts written on nutrition are by women: 5 of the top 6 in the case of lavanguardia.com and 4 out of 6 at elpais.com. In both media, 60% of the authors are women.

On the other hand, it is worth mentioning the high number of occasional authors on Nutrition that appear in elpais.com, no less than 30 authors have contributed just one text. In lavanguardia.com, the number of single authorships drops to 13. Sarah Palenque has written texts for both newspapers, with one article in elpais.com and two in lavanguardia.com.

This points towards limited journalistic specialisation in the field of nutrition, already detected in studies such as Alzate (2013) or by Elika (2012-2015) on Food Security in the press in the Basque Country.

4.3. Sections, genres and headlines

Both newspapers group together the vast majority of news on Nutrition into two very specific sections, “Buenavida” (Good Life) (49%) in the case of elpais.com, and “Vivo” (Living) referring to lavanguardia.com (41%). In the case of the Prisa Group online newspaper, “De mamás y de papás” (Mums and Dads) (10%) and “Nutrir con ciencia” (Nurture with Science) (7%) come in second and third, although with significantly lower weighting. On the other hand, the Catalan publication gathers a large number of news items in the sections entitled “Vida” (Life) (24%) and “Comer” (Eat) (22%).

Remember that Demonte (2017), in his study on the Argentinian press pointed to “Lifestyle”, “General Information” and “Science and Health” as the destination for news items on this topic. In turn, Alzarte (2013) referred to the lack of sections on nutrition in the press. However, both “Nutrir con ciencia” in elpais.com, and the “Comer” channel from lavanguardia.com, constitute specialised spaces dedicated to the food field.

Table 6: Distribution of texts by sections

Source: Compiled by author.