The Process of the European Convergence and the Specialized Journalism: The Case of Political Journalism

Abstract

This paper analyze the degree in Journalism plans resulting from the adaptation to the EAHE, with particular attention to the inclusion of Political Journalism topics. The profiles identified in the White Paper about degrees in communication, and reproduced in many of these degree plans, have conditioned some training plans that generally do not give enough importance to Specialized Journalism and, especially, Political Journalism, area to which ascribes most of the contents of the press. Thus, only 13 of the 37 degrees include specific courses in Political Journalism. This situation reveals a divergence between professional reality and university training that should be solved in the future.