Journalists, media and social system: relationships that conduce to the de-professionalization of the Cuban press

Abstract

This article characterizes some typical situations of the current working environments of Cuban journalism, identifying the occurrence of a phenomenon here defined as de-professionalization of the press. From the theoretical systematization of several Cuban researches published between 2012 and 2017 about the professional culture of journalists and their relationship with the newsmaking manner, it is determined how internal and external processes to the media vitiate the journalistic practice. These processes are described considering three fundamental premises: the presence of obsolete habits and practices of work, limitations in the conception and use of digital information technologies and the instrumentalist conception of the press by the institutions of the political system and the civil society.