Updated valuations of the professional competitions in the labor practice of the Spanish journalists

Abstract

The present article starts from questioning which currently are the most important skills for the exercise of the journalism as a profession. The research is based on the application of an online questionnaire as an instrument to collect data from professionals, teachers, students and academic managers (N=103) complemented by interviews with professionals in the field of Journalism in Spain. The article presents the assessment of the respondents about the usefulness of disciplinary knowledge (knowledge), professional skills (know-how), academic skills and other specific skills proposed in the ANECA White Paper, in its version of 2004. The data has been analyzed using the statistical software SPSS VX. The main results allow us to observe that a relevant assessment is maintained towards traditional skills of the journalist profile, and to these are added others that are in tune with the challenges proposed by the technological and social changes.