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10 The evolution of sports joumalism 
ENRIC BAÑERES 
The author remembers the treatment that the newspapers used to give 
to the theme o f sport fifteen years ago. They used to open the section 
with an article about "Barça" (Barcelona Football Club), regardless o f 
whether it was news or not, this was followed by news about "Espan-
yol" (the main rival in Barcelona) and then went on to deal with 
the rest. 
By means of a series of anecdotes lived by oid joumalists, the author 
explains the particular system of access and the situation of sports 
journalists working for newspapers. Ma ny o f them arrived at the edi-
torial offices because of their determination or their links to sports 
clubs. Not all of them were on the staff of the company. 
Nowadays, sports and events are no longer subsections in the news-
papers. The sports journalists have the same training as the rest of 
their colleagues working in other sections and their professional qua-
lification is comparable to that of any other joumalist. Nowadays, 
and generally speaking, sports journalists are more knowledgeable, 
not only about a ll kinds of sports, but also about the context in which 
they work. 
15 The professional change in Spain 
PAU CAMPS I PONS 
116 The author digs out oid folders with cuttings from newspapers from 
fifteen years ago. Using them, he analyses the nature of the informa-
tion and social conditionings in an era that is still close to us, but dis-
tanced as a resulto f events. The political transition a nd its characters 
figure in the yellowed cuttings. He also makes us recali all of those 
newspapers and magazines that have disappeared. 
T he author thinks that society has changed and that the journalists 
have also done so. The greatest danger has been and still continues to 
be political militancy of both the media a nd the professionals them-
selves. On the other hand, sensationalist news is more often the prota-
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gonist than parliamentary debates. Democratic normality? It could 
also be a good excuse for limiting oneselfto living the commodity that 
means not entering into conflict with reality. 
19 Political news and professional autonomy 
ENRIC COMPANY 
The author takes us back to the end of the decade of the sixties and 
the beginning of the seventies, a stage during which the country's 
press underwent a fundamental change. The editorial offices filled up 
with young people committed to progressive social and political 
changes. Many of them received their intellectual formation in the 
universities, and were dedicated to the anti-Francoist struggle. 
In the decade of the eighties these professionals occupy posts o f res-
ponsibility, not only in the media but also alongside political posts of 
confidence, in institutional pres offices. On the other hand, it is here 
that we fi nd the people responsible for a press with sensationalist ele-
ments, committed to selling scandals rather than n,ews. Finally, the 
author thinks that it is necessary to have professionals with their own 
criteria, not without a critica! sense but with a big dose of 
objectivity. 
28 Photographers, 15 years later 
P EPE ENCINAS 
Currently working as a professional photographer, the author reflects 117 
about how the concept of graphic journalisin has undergone pro-
found changes in a period of 15 years. Photo-journalists now have a 
greater sensitivity regarding news and an aesthetic, visual concept. 
In 1974, the newspapers had one or two photographers on their per-
manent staff, while others worked as assistants without any kind of 
work security. Later, a group of photographers tried to form a news 
"pool" in order to counterbalance the official reports of Franco's 
dying regime. Journalists also went to great Jengths to launch the pro-
lession in other fields like that of sport. 
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