doxa.comunicación | nº 29, pp. 213-233 | 219
July-December of 2019
María José Ufarte Ruiz and Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez
ISSN: 1696-019X / e-ISSN: 2386-3978
The other is related to the intention to vote in Spain in the general elections that took place on 26 June 2016 (Figure 2). The sample evaluated the texts without knowing their authorship.
With regard to the journalists’ profiles, 57.25% are women and 42.75% are men. They are between 22 and 60 years old, although the majority are between 30 and 45 years of age (42.8%). Of the total sample, 40.69% worked in the press, 25.52% in press offices, 10.34% in radio and 11.04% in television. The remaining 12.41% work in digital media, magazines and publishing houses (Table 1). For the selection of this sample, a criterion of convenience based on our professional collaboration network has been used (Humanes and Roses, 2014).
Table 1. Distribution of the sample surveyed
Datasheet of the sample surveyed
Media
Journalists
Press
Men
Women
No.
23
No.
36
%
15.86%
%
24.83%
Sample: 59 journalists (40.69%)
Press office
Men
Women
No.
16
No.
21
%
11.03%
%
14.49%
Sample: 37 journalists (25.52%)
Radio
Men
Women
No.
8
No.
7
%
5.51%
%
4.83%
Sample: 15 journalists (10.34%)
Television
Men
Women
No.
9
No.
7
%
6.21%
%
4.83%
Sample: 16 journalists (11.04%)
Digital media, magazines and publishers
Men
Women
No.
6
No.
12
%
(4.14%)
%
(8.27%)
Sample: 18 journalists (12.41%)
Total simple: 145 journalists (100%)
Source: Created by the authors
In order to carry out the questionnaire, the proposals made by Núñez Ladevéze (1993), Alex Grijelmo (1997), Martínez Albertos (1992), and Emil Dovifat (1959), regarding the quality of the information were taken into account and which are related to grammar, syntax, coherence, language and the style used. Similarly, the approaches of McQuail (1992), Schatz & Schulz (1992), Pottker (2000), Picard (2004), and Arnold (2009), who recommend attention to six features, were analysed: a)
