Journalism and Professional Journalists

The for Center Average Citizen led by Gives Gillmor has compiled the Principles of the Citizen Media like fruit of their work of investigation in this field. Each one of them is explained with great variety of didactic resources (interviews, presentations, videos, etc.).

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While the fight between printed and digital journalism continues, at least a newspaper, The Washington Post, have sent a memo to its staff that aims to clear any malentendido between both departments. The keys: convergence, collaboration and qualification to prepare to the journalists in the transition towards the digitalis. In order to deepen integration, in addition, they designated to publishers of the main sections of the form so that they collaborate with the Web site and the table of “noticias continuas” of the newspaper.

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The 11 of November of that year, Mario Bonino disappeared in the passage between its address to the seat of the Association of Workers of the State (IT TIES), where a seminary of the Utpba was made [ Union of Workers of Press of Buenos Aires ]. Four days later its corpse appeared floating in the Brook.

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The restoration of constitutional governments as of December of 1983 supposed for the journalistic activity a deeply positive change, that made possible the return of exiliados journalists, the liberation of the press workers who even remained jailed, the reapertura of means of press closed by the dictatorship and, in general, a greater freedom of expression. But in last the years there was an offensive against the press that is transformed in judicial complaints (most of the times initiated by civil employees), anonymous or opened aggressions to journalists (the majority on the part of security agents) and threats.

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Angel Herrera Oria, convinced that the professionals of the media required certain academic preparation, created in 20 years the first school of journalism in Spain, the school of journalism of the Debate (periodic that he himself had founded on 1912). This way, Herrera Oria became precursor of the journalism studies - although the most excellent journalists of the time were against, marking a way that later followed the State with the appearance of the first faculties of Sciences of the Information in which this profession like university career was distributed.

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