The mobbing in the journalistic profession: Empirical analysis of the psychological harassment in the work and his influence in the journalist and in the informative company

Abstract

The cases of mobbing or psychological harassment are frequent inside the journalistic profession at work, where the threats, the pressures and the harsh behavior have turned into partners for his professionals. The aim of this scientific article is to theorize on this practice that is happening, every time with major assiduity, inside the informative drafts. The critical review of the existing bibliography, the descriptive analysis of representative cases, the interviews to the affected ones and a study of case applied to the professionals of the written press of Almeria, demonstrate how the phenomenon concerns, in an alarming way, to the physical and psychological wellness of the journalists who suffer it, and at the same time, it assumes important economic costs to the informative companies.