Social media in Spanish journalism: Demand, expectations and university offer

This paper seeks to reveal whether there is a proportional relationship between the labour market demands, the expectations of professionals and the Spanish university offer in relation to the new professional figures that have developed on Internet. We have employed the methodological triangulation by theoretically reviewing the literature on the subject, trough a survey to local media journalists about expectations and uses of social media and a national-scale analysis of the Spanish universities offer in degrees and masters in Journalism. The results show that two-thirds of surveyed people are satisfied with the new professional profiles and moving to social media as work tools. However, university curricula are not conclusively betting for contents directed to the new demands of journalistic businesses; thus, there is no direct connection between the labour market and university offer.