Training in the use of digital tools in journalistic practice

Abstract

Given the transformations recorded by journalistic activity in the digital age and the increasing use of technology by audiences to obtain, consume and share news content, it is necessary to analyze whether journalists receive training on the use of digital tools to produce content. Informative taking advantage of the benefits provided by technology.
In the journalistic convergence, that the media of the state of Querétaro, located in the center of Mexico are involved, it was detected that professionalized journalists and those of office do not receive continuous training on the use of technology. Through the companies for which they work, together with the fact that at the time they did not obtain the updated knowledge on the subject during their time at the University. Faced with the demand of the market in which journalism industries are inserted reporters became self-taught in the use of digital tools to process and transmit as they can the information they produce.