
Centres de documentació de diaris al segle XXI. Panorama després del tsunami.
Author(s) -
Javier Guallar,
Anna Cornet Casals
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bid. textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.133
H-Index - 7
ISSN - 1575-5886
DOI - 10.1344/bid2020.44.5
Subject(s) - documentation , vetting , newspaper , publishing , ledger , library science , public relations , political science , advertising , business , computer science , accounting , law , programming language
Objective: To analyse the situation of documentation services in Spanish newspapers in 2020, ten years after the start of the recession, which had such a great impact on news agencies.Methodology: An open-ended questionnaire was sent to the documentation managers of nine Spanish newspapers, with questions about: staff, documentary functions, software use, sources of information, documentary products, social networks, new features and the future of the profession.Results: The following points emerged from the responses to the questionnaires: the considerable reduction in staff over the last ten years; the greater use of documentation in relation to print publishing than in digital publishing (e.g., document analysis); the low level of integration of documentary software in print and online editions; the low use of information sources; the widespread creation of documentary products for internal use, when in fact very few of these products reach the reader; the interest in participating in emerging activities such as fact-checking and vetting content; and, finally, the fact that, when asked to predict the future of the profession, respondents combined pessimistic perceptions about the continuity of the documentation centres with a number of proposals for raising the profession’s profile.