Professional Perceptions and Reasons for Access to Journalism Studies. The Case of Journalism Students at Complutense University of Madrid

• Main Authors: Miriam RODRÍGUEZ PALLARES, Dolores RODRÍGUEZ BARBA, María José PÉREZ SERRANO
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2015-12-01
• Series: Fonseca: Journal of Communication
• Subjects: Grado en Periodismo; Motivación de los Estudiantes; Educación Mediática; Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Empresa Informativa.
• Online Access: http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/2172-9077/article/view/13445

In the academic year 2013-2014, the MediaCom UCM research group conducted a study among students in the first and fourth year of the Degree in Journalism at UCM with the pretention to know the reasons that they decided to pursue these studies, their perceptions of journalism and media influence. From a quantitative analysis model relatively vocational criteria among students are perceived; generally they believe that journalists are not very independent and that political and economic factors influence in the activity of the media sector, whose influence on policy choices and consumption is subject to debate. This article is part of an academic project, whose results are intended to work with universities to improve their teaching and training model of students according to their perception of journalism as a profession.