Iberian Media Policies

This article aims to present an overview of the development of Communication Hi-story in the Iberian countries, focusing on how the field emerged in both Portugal and Spain. It will demonstrate that the development of media studies in general, and Communication History in particular, followed two different paths in the two countries, which explains the fact that, even today, one cannot speak of a common Iberian tra-dition of research. In order to achieve its goal, the article relies on historical research highlighting the main landmarks of the development of Com-munication History in both countries.1 Since the aim is not to present an updated state of the art, most of the sources that support the article were produced during the emerging period of this new field