TYPOLOGY OF THE BAJA CALIFORNIA JOURNALISTIC GUILD: AN APPROACH FROM THE PERCEPTIONS OF ITS MEMBERS

Abstract

The objective of this article is to generate a typology of the journalistic guild in Baja California, Mexico in order to present as a subjective mediation in the development of journalists´ professional practice. Thirty-seven in-depth interviews were implemented to journalists from the state of Baja California and a free association technique was applied using the pile sorting analysis. Three types of journalists were found: the critical journalist, the government-society liaison journalist, and the indifferent journalist. This article concludes that the proposed typology is dynamic, which means, there is a simultaneity of types of journalists, that journalists adopt within the guild. This situation generates spontaneous journalistic practices that change according to ideas and feelings that appear in specific circumstances.