“Technical” and the deontological aspects of journalistic programmes

Abstract

The article examines the issues of "Journalism" and "Professional ethics" in European education, through the stated mission and the curricula of some representative schools of communication located in Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Spain. The author provides a brief characteristic of some well-known education centres of these countries. Then, the principal objectives of the schools and their curricula are presented from the point of view of its correspondence with an the integral model of journalism. The main qualities of that model of journalism are: intellectual preparation inherent in the vision of the world, the professional vocation, the sensitivity to truth-value of information, creativity in journalism, popular science, the ability to work in groups. The author refers to the work of research of among other Luka Brajnovic and Gabriel Galdón López.