This article analyses the interprofessional dynamics of communication production in the criminal justice system. Through 26 in-depth interviews, we investigate the production of media information on prosecutorial work in Chile, tracking the relationships between internal communication agents, prosecutors, and external legal journalists. Previous scholarship has shown the success of police organizations in defining the content of crime communication based on asymmetrical power relations with the media. By contrast, our study reveals that legal journalists can bypass attempts to control the flow of information from the prosecutorial office and impose extra-organizational goals. Lawyers regularly dismiss the work of journalists, particularly those working as strategic communication advisors with prosecutors, but the asymmetrical relationship between the criminal justice agency and the media plays in favour of external legal journalists. Our article considers several explanations for this configuration, including interprofessional values, transactional relationships between journalists and prosecutors, and local legal culture.

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“不，伙计，我不会对媒体讲话——我正在工作！”：智利检察院的刑事司法和传播生产的跨专业动态

本文分析了刑事司法系统中传播生产的跨专业动态。通过 26 次深度访谈，我们调查了智利检察工作媒体信息的制作，追踪了内部传播代理人、检察官和外部法律记者之间的关系。以往的研究表明，警察组织成功地根据与媒体的不对称权力关系来定义犯罪传播的内容。相比之下，我们的研究表明，合法记者可以绕过检察官办公室控制信息流动的企图，并强加组织外目标。律师经常解雇记者的工作，尤其是那些担任检察官战略沟通顾问的记者，但刑事司法机构与媒体之间的不对称关系有利于外部合法记者。我们的文章考虑了对这种配置的几种解释，包括跨专业价值观、记者和检察官之间的交易关系，以及当地的法律文化。