COMPETENCIAS EN TECNOLOGÍAS DE INFORMACIÓN Y COMUNICACIÓN DEL PERIODISTA DIGITAL DE LOS MEDIOS TRADICIONALES

Abstract

The digital journalism is a new practice of journalism with immediacy through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The basis of this research emerges from the need for journalists to increase their knowledge in basic technology tools to practice their profession, mostly in digital versions of mass media. In Ecuador, digital journalism is emerging and therefore the training of professionals must be continuous. The purpose of the research is to demonstrate the impact of digital journalist weaknesses of ICT in order to design an analytical program from perceptions of occupational needs in this area of journalism. The methodology is qualitative, it´s to establish the status of a group of professionals. To carry out the study in the first part the theoretical foundations were designed through documentary and literature method. In the second part surveys were applied to professionals practicing digital journalism and interviews with experts and editors of mass media. Finally, after tabulating surveys and interpreting interviews it proposes the contents of an analytical program.