El Estado de la profesión periodística y la crisis de los medios en España

Abstract

The aim of the present investigation is to obtain a complete x-ray of the journalistic profession, from all possible angles, labour and formative, and also the impact that work carried out by journalists has on the citizenship, that is, credibility of the information. The data on which the investigation is based on come from three national interviews about the credibility and confidence in the information. They have been carried out by current journalists, schools of journalism and the last to general population. Next to the descriptive study of the labour and professional situation in the media, this paper analyzes the effects that the global economic crisis is having on the journalism and in their professional: reduction in advertising investment, reduction in the workforce, decrease in print runs, closures of media, adaptation to new formats, transitions from the press for payment to the free, concentration of companies to reduce cost or employment regulation orders.