The Humanities as a place of Journalism education

Abstract

For decades a considerable part of the discussion of academic courses in journalism in Portugal has been focused, on the one hand, on the eternal quarrel between practice and theory and, on the other hand, on the need for technological adaptation of curricula in order to respond to the rapid changes in information and communication technologies. Given the challenges currently facing the profession, this paper puts the case for the value of the humanities in the training of journalists. An academic education in Journalism must provide students with a skill set and the knowledge that enables them to respond adequately to the ethical and deontological demands of the profession . There must also be an awareness that our multicultural and multilingual multimedia new world brings more complex ethical challenges and requires a more solid structure of thought and, above all, the ability to think and solve more complex and sensitive problems.