Burocratización de las rutinas profesionales de los periodistas en Chile (1975-2005)

Abstract

The article describes the main trends in Chilean journalists' professional practices between 1975 and 2005 in four newspapers of national circulation. It is proposed that the Chilean journalism has increasingly bureaucratized its work, transforming the news making process in a mechanized and automated task that responds strongly to the logic of media market. This trend contradicts the political and ethical demands on journalism, in order to be an objective, independent and autonomous activity that collaborates with the formation of public opinion and the control of political power.