College Students’ Views about the Journalism Education in Spain

The paper presents the results of a survey with a sample of 1,552 journalism students from five public universities during the academic year 2011-12. The research addresses two objectives: how students evaluate the journalism studies and to know if they believe the studies are necessary to purpose of exercising the profession. The results indicate that most students believe appropriate the journalism studies, but almost but almost 25% considered them unnecessary. Students assess the quality of the training received in schools with an approved. There has been a multiple linear regression to find which variables explain this evaluation. The most influential is the course you are enrolled, followed by functions that respondents give to faculties. The paper presents the advantage of working with data from the largest sample used so far, which also includes all courses and the first promotions of students in the undergraduate studies according to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). It can be a valuable starting point for further researchs to make decisions on the academic. The study is part of the Sudents Journalism Project with journalism students in seven countries: Australia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland and the United States

La performance de los roles profesionales en el periodismo deportivo. Análisis de noticias en cuatro plataformas mediáticas en España

Based on the conceptualization of Mellado (2015, 2021) on the performance of professional roles, ma-nifested in six different dimensions: the interventionist, watchdog, loyal-facilitator, service, infotainmentand civic roles, a content analysis has been carried out in a sample of 554 sports news published in theyear 2020 in twelve Spanish media from four platforms (print press, radio, television and digital nativenewspapers). The following objectives are addressed: to know which journalistic roles materialize to agreater extent in the coverage of sporting events, to analyze if there are differences in the presence ofthese roles considering the media platform (press, radio, television and digital native media), as well asto know which intermediate roles are generated by the co-occurrence of pure roles. The results show thatthe most present roles are the interventionist (M= .26; SD= .20) and the infotainment role (M= .16; SD=.20), especially in digital native media (M interventionist= .31; SD= .20; M info-entertainment= .18; SD= .21). In addition, the generation of two intermediate roles has been revealed from the combination of the inter-ventionist and infotainment roles (r=,266) and the loyal-facilitator and infotainment roles (r=,179). It isconcluded that the sports journalism model bases on two fundamental functions, that of creating opinionand that of entertaining, while only digital native newspapers move away slightly by being more criticalA partir de la conceptualización de Mellado (2015, 2021) sobre la performance de los roles profesio-nales, manifestados en seis diferentes dimensiones: los roles intervencionista, vigilante, leal-facilitador, servicio, info-entretenimiento y cívico, se ha realizado un análisis de contenido de una muestra de 554noticias sobre deportes publicadas en doce medios españoles de prensa, radio, televisión y diarios nativosdigitales en 2020. Se abordan los siguientes objetivos: conocer qué roles periodísticos se materializanen mayor medida en la cobertura de acontecimientos deportivos, analizar si existen diferencias en lapresencia de estos roles considerando la plataforma mediática (prensa, radio, televisión y medios nativosdigitales), así como conocer qué roles intermedios se generan por la co-ocurrencia de los roles puros. Losresultados muestran que los roles más presentes son el intervencionista (M= ,26; DT= ,20) y el rol de in-fo-entretenimiento (M= ,16; DT= ,20), especialmente en los medios nativos digitales (Mintervencionista= ,31;DT= ,20; Minfo-entretenimiento= ,18; DT= ,21). Además, se ha revelado la generación de dos roles intermediosde la combinación de los roles intervencionista e info-entretenimiento (r=,266) y de los roles leal-facilitador e info-entretenimiento (r=,179). Se concluye que el modelo de periodismo deportivo descansa sobre dos funciones fundamentales, la de crear opinión y la de entretener, mientras que solo los diarios nativos digitales se alejan ligeramente al mostrarse más críticos

Conflicts in the professional roles of journalists in Spain: Ideals and practice

Based on a survey of 122 journalists from four Spanish newspapers carried out from 2015 to 2016, this paper analyses to what extent these professionals perceive a disconnection –a gap– between their role conception and their perceived role enactment, that is between their professional ideals and their journalistic practice, and which are the most “conflicting” roles in a Polarized Pluralist media system. According to the perceptions of the professionals surveyed, journalists in Spain hold a role conflict when they work in a newspaper. The findings show significant differences between the role conception and the perceived role enactment in six of the seven professional roles. The biggest divergences are located in the watchdog, civic and disseminator roles. The conflict between the professional ideals and their implementation in the news is always resolved in favor of the media organizations. Our results are consistent and support the previous studies that have defined the Polarized Pluralist media system as a media ecosystem where journalists accumulate little power compared to the media organizations, which are in financial debt and dependent on political and economic powers. Results are discussed according to the literature review as well as the context in which the study was developed

La Reconstrucción del pasado en las noticias : la representación mediática del 25 aniversario de la muerte de Franco y la coronación de Juan Carlos I

Los periodistas trabajan básicamente con acontecimientos de actualidad, pero también hacen uso del pasado, bien para explicar hechos del presente o bien para recordarnos sucesos que tienen una especial importancia para el grupo social. En este último caso, están actuando sobre la memoria colectiva reconstruyendo la historia a través del discurso noticioso. El artículo se propone indagar sobre las características de la cobertura mediática de la conmemoración de un acontecimiento del pasado reciente de nuestro país -el 25 aniversario de la muerte de Franco y la subida al trono de Juan Carlos I- a través del análisis de contenido de las noticias publicadas con motivo del evento en noviembre de 2000 en los diarios El País, El Mundo, ABC, La Vanguardia y El Correo Español. Concluimos que la prensa española ha contribuido a la creación de un discurso caracterizado por la narración presentista de la historia.The journalists report normally about recent events, but they use the past to explain the present or to remember facts that have a special relevance for the society. In this case they work on the collective memory making a reconstruction of the history by the news. The paper research the characteristics of the newsworthy treatment of the commemoration of the a recent event in Spain -the 25th anniversary of the Franco's death and the Juan Carlos I's crowning- by the content analysis of the news published in November 2000 in the diaries El País, El Mundo, ABC, La Vanguardia and El Correo Español. We conclude that the Spanish press has contributed to elaborate a discourse, characterised for the present narration of the History

La innovación educativa, subestimada: Análisis de la importancia que le otorgan los estudiantes de Periodismo

This research examines the attitudes of Journalism students towards educational innovation with a cross-national survey in seven countries. The goal is to observe the importance given by students to the educational innovation among a set of tasks, which professors have to develop in their academic work. The Spanish Journalism students underestimated the relevance of educational innovation. Women gave more importance to innovation in education than men. No differences were found among five Spanish universities.Este artículo examina las actitudes de los estudiantes de Periodismo hacia la innovación educativa a partir de una encuesta transversal suministrada en siete países. El objetivo de la investigación es observar la importancia asignada por los estudiantes a la innovación educativa entre un conjunto de tareas académicas de sus profesores. Los estudiantes de periodismo españoles subestimaron la relevancia de la innovación educativa. Las mujeres otorgaron mayor importancia a la innovación educativa que los hombres. No se hallaron diferencias entre cinco universidades españolas

Nuevos temas noticiosos en las elecciones generales de 2004. La presencia de metacobertura en la prensa española

El artículo aborda la presencia en los diarios españoles de un tópico noticioso emergente en la información electoral, la metacobertura. Es decir, la cobertura periodística que describe el rol que juegan en la campaña los eventos producidos por los medios, las relaciones públicas y el marketing político. Se ha realizado un análisis de contenido de las secciones dedicadas a la campaña electoral de 2004 en El País, Abc y El Mundo. Otro objetivo es averiguar la relación que existe entre los distintos temas de campaña y la metacobertura, es decir, a qué temas de la información electoral se le asocian referencias a los medios y/o a la publicidad política.; The article approaches the presence in the Spanish diaries of a news emergent topic of the electoral news, the metacoverage. Hence, the role played by the events produced by the media, the public relations and the political marketing in the campaign. We have conducted a content analysis of the sections dedicated to the electoral campaign of 2004 in El País, Abc and El Mundo. Another aim is to verify the relation between the different topics of campaign and the metacoverage.; Artikulu honetan, egunkari espainiarretako hauteskunde-informazioan gero eta garrantzi handiagoa hartzen ari den meta-estalduraren gaia da ikergaia. Alegia, hedabideek, harreman publikoek eta marketing politikoak sortutako gertakizunek kanpainan jokatzen duten papera deskribatzen duten albisteak aztertzen dira. El País, Abc eta El Mundo egunkariek 2004. urteko hauteskunde-kanpainari eskeintako atalen eduki-azterketa burutu dugu. Aldi berean, meta-estaldura eta kanpainako gaien arteko harremanean arakatu nahi izan dugu, alegia, hauteskunde-informazioan zeintzu gai lotu diren hedabideekin edota publizitate politikoarekin

Conflicts in the professional roles of journalists in Spain: Ideals and practice

Based on a survey of 122 journalists from four Spanish newspapers carried out from 2015 to 2016, this paper analyses to what extent these professionals perceive a disconnection –a gap– between their role conception and their perceived role enactment, that is between their professional ideals and their journalistic practice, and which are the most “conflicting” roles in a Polarized Pluralist media system. According to the perceptions of the professionals surveyed, journalists in Spain hold a role conflict when they work in a newspaper. The findings show significant differences between the role conception and the perceived role enactment in six of the seven professional roles. The biggest divergences are located in the watchdog, civic and disseminator roles. The conflict between the professional ideals and their implementation in the news is always resolved in favor of the media organizations. Our results are consistent and support the previous studies that have defined the Polarized Pluralist media system as a media ecosystem where journalists accumulate little power compared to the media organizations, which are in financial debt and dependent on political and economic powers. Results are discussed according to the literature review as well as the context in which the study was developed

Periodismo político en España. Prácticas, roles y actitudes

The general aim is to characterize Spanish political journalism through the discourse of editors of the political sections, to verify the extent to which it conforms to the model of a polarized pluralist media system. In Spain has had a consolidated advocacy oriented journalism, which either made the journalist part of the party or organization’s strategy, or an advocate of a particular ideology. According to Hallin and Mancini we consider two indicators of political parallelism: the journalistic orientation and practices, and the relations between the media and the political system. The data were obtained through indepth interviews with 14 editors. The results suggest that the Spanish political journalism meets two basic features: high levels of political parallelism and polarization. With regard to relations between politicians and journalists, they reveal an attitude of mistrust against politicians.El objetivo general del trabajo es caracterizar el periodismo político español para comprobar en qué medida se ajusta al modelo del sistema mediático pluralistapolarizado. Se han utilizado dos de los indicadores de paralelismo político destacados por Hallin y Mancini: las orientaciones y prácticas periodísticas y las relaciones entre periodistas y sistema político. Se han realizado entrevistas en profundidad a 14 responsables de la sección de política o nacional. Los resultados permiten afirmar que el periodismo político en España cumple las características básicas del modelo pluralistapolarizado. Los niveles de paralelismo político y politización se mantienen altos. Respecto a las relaciones entre políticos y periodistas, las entrevistas han revelado una actitud de desconfianza y el distanciamiento de los periodistas frente a los políticos

La profesión periodística en España

Los periodistas españoles se han convertido en un grupo con enorme prestigio e influencia social. Este ascenso se ha producido paralelamente al inicio del proceso de profesionalización del periodismo hispano. El artículo se propone analizar algunas de las características que definen a la profesión periodística actualmente, a partir de los resultados de una encuesta llevada a cabo en 1995 a una muestra de redactores de la Comunidad de Madrid. Las dos cuestiones que se tratan son: la imagen que los periodistas tienen de su actividad en los medios y la importancia que otorgan a la ética profesional. Todo ello teniendo en cuenta, además, los condicionamientos históricos y las funciones sociales que influyen en el trabajo de los periodistas en nuestro país