La precariedad, obstáculo para la calidad periodística: estudio de caso

Juan José Gutiérrez-Cuesta; Naiara Vink Larruskain; María José Cantalapiedra González

doi:10.31921/doxacom.n35a1588

Authors

Juan José Gutiérrez-Cuesta University of the Basque Country, Spain
Naiara Vink Larruskain Harresiak Apurtuz, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8470-3357
María José Cantalapiedra González University of the Basque Country, Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31921/doxacom.n35a1588

Keywords:

Journalism, precariousness, Innovation; Journalism; Diversity; Editorial Quality Management System; Structuration theory, journalistic routines, freelance journalist

Abstract

This paper focuses on the collaborators of the Biscayan press’ employment and professional situation, journalists who work exclusively or almost exclusively for a single media as freelance workers. This paper shows how precariousness is an obstacle to achieving the necessary journalistic quality that the media should offer. These professionals are at a disadvantage compared to hired journalists who are covered by the corresponding collective agreement. The collaborators’ precarious working conditions affect their professional routines and, ultimately, the quality of the daily texts published in the newspapers. We use quantitative data from a survey and a qualitative analysis through in-depth interviews with collaborators and former collaborators to address this problem and show the working and professional situation of the journalists who make up this group.

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Author Biographies

Juan José Gutiérrez-Cuesta, University of the Basque Country, Spain

PhD in Social Communication from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Degree in Information Sciences from the University of the Basque Country and a degree in Spanish Language and Literature from the UNED. A journalist with over two decades of experience works for the EFE Agency who has collaborated with local print and digital media. He is a member of Bitartez, a Consolidated Research Group, with a Type A rating Basque University System group of excellence. His main research lines are working routines, journalists’ work and professional conditions, and the precariousness of journalism and its effects on social practices and journalistic quality.
Naiara Vink Larruskain, Harresiak Apurtuz, Spain

PhD in Social Communication from the UPV/EHU and postgraduate in Multimedia Communication from the same university. For ten years, she has worked as a journalist on different radio and television channels and for communication groups such as Vocento, EiTB, and Atresmedia. She has been in charge of communication in a social organisation linked to the field of migration, Harresiak Apurtuz, for the last seven years. She is a member of Bitartez, a Consolidated Research Group, with a Type A rating Basque University System group of excellence. Her research areas are women’s leadership, women’s access to the labour market in communication companies, and gender discomfort and its impact on professional development.
María José Cantalapiedra González, University of the Basque Country, Spain

She is a senior lecturer in the Journalism department in the Social Sciences and Communication Faculty at the UPV/EHU, and accredited as a professor. She has three six-year research fellowships and one transfer fellowship. She has 396 citations on Google Scholar and an h index of 11. Journalists’ working and professional conditions have been a line of research since her doctoral thesis. Director of Bitartez, a Consolidated Research Group of the Basque University System, with a Type A rating of excellence. PI in 11 Competitive Research Projects and collaborator in 6 more. Promoter and co-founder of the spin-off LABAK. Currently co-directs the Congress on research and transfer in communication, Intracom.

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