Los alumnos de periodismo de la Universidad de Zaragoza y la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (España):impulso vocacional, referencias mediáticas y perspectivas profesionales

Résumé

According to data supplied by the Madrid’s Association Press, in 2014 there were twenty-one thousand four hundred thirty-eight students enrolled in Grades and Bachelor of Journalism from different Spanish Schools of Communication. In recent years, some researchers have published several scientific contributions on the implementation in Spain of this degree in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and the profile of their students. In this way, one of the latest researches has focused on the students of the Degree of Journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Zaragoza (Spain). Throughout this paper the main results focused mainly on issues related to the vocation, job prospects, professional references and the influence of the media among students for this course at the two universities analyzed are shown. The methodology was based on a questionnaire of twenty multiple-choice questions. Fieldwork was conducted during the academic year 2013 / 2014.This research is the result of joint work by a research group at the Complutense University of Madrid and another from the University of Zaragoza (Spain)