GIJC2013
Research: “Journalism and Social Appropriation of Knowledge” (Spanish)
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In Latin America, the 1997 UNESCO directives and the laws that protect the provision of higher education consider, besides the teaching, extracurricular activities and research as a central part of its mission. The research should foster the search and generation of knowledge of the universities.
Consequently, social communication and journalism programs, in pursuit of increasingly competent and comprehensive students who aim for long term journalism and not just breaking news, urgently need to depend less on curricular program training and rather pursue an investigative culture that contributes to the professional skills of their graduates.