Journalism's career, which until 1973 was given only four universities, there are currently 36 schools of journalism in 68 venues in the country, 27 schools are private.
The salaries of journalists have fallen behind other professions and the price of labor is relatively low, even more than in other countries in the region. The large number of schools of journalism in the region of Valparaiso involves having a large pool of unemployed professionals.
"industrial sources do not come with the same speed as the number of journalists," said regional union president, Auden Barria. On the state
de la profesión en Chile, según un estudio efectuado por cuatro universidades. Quienes trabajan hoy en medios de comunicación produciendo noticias periódicamente son el 44 por ciento del total de los profesionales. El resto trabaja en comunicación corporativa -elaboran estrategias de comunicación para empresas o instituciones y representan el 37 por ciento del desempeño laboral; un 8 por ciento está dedicado a investigar y enseñar sobre comunicaciones en las universidades y el resto trabaja produciendo contenidos misceláneos.
Más escuelas de periodismo, menos medios de comunicación, bajos sueldos son parte de una realidad ineludible.
En las redes sociales.
Un nuevo campo laboral para los periodistas and can strengthen the quality of content, are social networks every day become more important in society. Proof of this is what is happening in Arab countries, a social revolution supported by social networks. Duopoly
through information Mercurio and La Tercera.
The national picture of the press is not immune to what happens in the region, standardized information is part of information flow, without investigative journalism with a critical, constructive opinionated and the society, with regional work pluralistic spaces . The same situation occurs around the television media and its orientation, its contents and trends rightists. Destroying the reality
In 2010, a year marked by tragedies that stripped social dramas that seemed hidden. The earthquake and tsunami, the miners of San José, the Mapuche conflict, the death of 81 prisoners in the prison of San Miguel, that at the national level.
The overall assessment of the information is to be. For lack of vision, lack of resources, lack of clarity in discriminating subjects that were really relevant. The global octopus had many more minutes of screen time the Mapuche hunger strike or workers of Farmacias Ahumada, apparently reality becomes a seudorealidad, on economic, political or issues related to rating. (Read avisaje)
The globalization of communications has lost perspective. It's not news
peoplemeter long ago that the number of newspapers sold or the number of visitors or listeners are one in the meeting schedule of the editors. You have to keep the sponsors happy, because they finance the media. But one thing is to "sell" your means as a product and another to prostitution, letting that "invited" to the meeting schedule that ultimately decides whether the content of the medium.
The "show" News
A clear example of the situation after the earthquake and tsunami, which reached its peak because of the coverage of the miners trapped in the Mina San Jose.
The opportunity of journalism, going beyond the immediate drama or not meant to rescue the miners alive, turned into a show where the workers were stars and every superfluous detail about their lives, their family or friend excluding serious shortcomings in the operations at the mine, the flaws in the oversight agencies, the precariousness of their work not only in Copiapo, but other minerals in the country.
A button displays an unknown reality
Valparaiso Regional Council of the Association of Journalists issued its support for the leader of the Metropolitan Regional colleague, Marcelo Garay, indicted for violation of the so-called Otero Act, which punishes who capture and disseminate images in places that are considered private.
The journalist was detained for over a year in the Araucanía Region to shoot a farm in Padre Las Casas as reported in a community. The Prosecutor's Office formally
for violation of Article 161-A of the Penal Code (Act Otero) and calls 200 days in prison and a fine of almost 2 million pesos. Furthermore, the police acted improperly in snatch-camera-and instrument of purely personal use as your mobile phone. Contrast this reaction
police and public prosecution with the permissiveness with which it comes to other media especially television, which together with the police enter a private premises, businesses and private homes, capturing and disseminating images of procedures without restrictions.
Journalists Region V are presented to public opinion and the government of Ricardo Lagos promised to process the repeal of the Act Otero, also reiterated the intention of his successor, Michelle Bachelet, commitments were not met.
Finally the provocative speech of journalist Nibaldo Mosciatti on receiving the 2010
Andina "We recognize two periods: one, that speaks to people, because people think and feel that it serves. Another, journalism that speaks to the powers, because he lives in that corner and warm-restricted but not free, that the power saved from that period. It is a corner a little humiliating, as these shacks for guard dogs, you shelter from the rain but that incubated fleas and ticks, but there will never lack the bin with food. It tastes bad, but it feeds. And in general, fat. What I mean by journalism comes first: Journalism is an exercise in anti-power. Distribute, disseminate, democratize information, if held in reserve for a few, is power. "
Nelson Muñoz Mera / Registration Journalists Association / No. 3264
