Entrepreneurial Journalism. Strategies to Promote SelfEmployment in Journalism as a New Business Model

Abstract

Journalism is under restructure. The economic crisis affected journalists’ working conditions and expectations. In this context a new option arises: the entrepreneurship. The goals of this paper consist of an economic analysis of news companies and the evaluation of the entrepreneurial attitude among university students. It also designs training methods to encourage journalistic entrepreneurship. The methodogy combines data analysis and quantitative survey approach. The paper identifies a decline of traditional business model and a weak student’s entrepreneurial attitude. Entrepreneurial journalism emerges as professional option but university education must encourage it.