page, the only one examined, only incorporates general images without numerical information. In these photographs, the notebooks of those who took the confidential information to appear in one of the most significant corruption cases in Argentina: the bribes that Roberto Baratta accepted from Argentinian companies, a former public official, in exchange for the granting of public contracts,

In the articles, the visualisations predominate (57.76%), and there is less of a balance between the narrative and visual part (23.81%) and excess text (19.05%). It could be said that the data journalism works studied give more space to the visual design of information rather than the narrative.

Figure 1. How the candidate projects for the Data Journalism Awards 2019 are structured

Source: created by the authors

As shown in Figure 2, there is no clear domain of a particular function in the total projects with visualisations. There is a balance between those structured as a story in themselves, considering the main visualisations as the central part of the item (54.76%) and those that complement the narration (42.85%).