Media internships within the Journalism degree: professional routines, conditioning factors and level of satisfaction of the Spanish students
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https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2019.nov.10Keywords:
Journalism, University, Journalism degree, Internships, Professional routines, Media, Press offices, Working conditions, Trainees, Students, University of Málaga, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.Abstract
This article studies the conditions of extracurricular internships carried out by Spanish journalism students in order to describe their regular professional routines, the elements that most frequently determine their work and their level of satisfaction with the stay. A survey was conducted in the universities of Málaga and Complutense of Madrid (n=210), whose results present an asymmetric internship system: among other findings, the training conditions depend on factors such as the type and size of the company or the section where the students are allocated; the supervision is dissimilar, with company tutors being much more dedicated than the academic ones, hardly known by the interns; and more than half of the students have been compelled to sign pieces they find unethical or barely professional.
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