Modalidades de reconocimiento, trayectoria profesional y posición política en el campo periodístico argentino

The article studies different acknowledgment modalities in which Argentine journalists validate media and colleagues as more important ones. A characterization of the journalist’s field is developed in terms of the professional trajectory and political positioning, considering correspondences between social space positions and the definition of hierarchical social places. A quantitative methodology was applied. Surveys made on journalists led to the confection of a taxonomy in which their social field could be illustrated. It is considered that the professional space is able to translate a series of asymmetrical references from established positions to the “newcomers”. This references are not politically neutral; they tend to favour conservative media. On the contrary, the acknowledgment of colleagues as consecrated involves a political segmentation, in which those superior positions in the social space are validated, but on the bases of a political differentiation between proximity to the Frente de Todos or to Juntos por el Cambio, Argentina’s two principal political forces. The analysis describes the superposition between media and journalists mentioned in the survey and the taxonomy. In this way, the mapping of the social space seeks to find correspondences between the actor’s representations –which symbolically consecrate both media and colleagues- and their places in the professional’s field structure.The article studies different acknowledgment modalities in which Argentine journalists validate media and colleagues as more important ones. A characterization of the journalist’s field is developed in terms of the professional trajectory and political positioning, considering correspondences between social space positions and the definition of hierarchical social places. A quantitative methodology was applied. Surveys made on journalists led to the confection of a taxonomy in which their social field could be illustrated. It is considered that the professional space is able to translate a series of asymmetrical references from established positions to the “newcomers”. This references are not politically neutral; they tend to favour conservative media. On the contrary, the acknowledgment of colleagues as consecrated involves a political segmentation, in which those superior positions in the social space are validated, but on the bases of a political differentiation between proximity to the Frente de Todos or to Juntos por el Cambio, Argentina’s two principal political forces. The analysis describes the superposition between media and journalists mentioned in the survey and the taxonomy. In this way, the mapping of the social space seeks to find correspondences between the actor’s representations –which symbolically consecrate both media and colleagues- and their places in the professional’s field structure.El artículo indaga diferentes modalidades de reconocimiento a través de las cuales periodistas argentinos validan diferencialmente a medios y colegas como los más importantes. Se desarrolla una caracterización del campo periodístico en términos de la trayectoria profesional y el posicionamiento político, estudiando correspondencias entre las ubicaciones en el espacio social y la definición de quienes ocupan las posiciones jerárquicas. Se implementó una metodología cuantitativa, de encuestas a periodistas, que permitió elaborar una taxonomía en la que ilustrar la composición de su campo. Se sostiene que el espacio profesional consigue trasladar una serie de referencias asimétricas desde las posiciones establecidas a los “recién llegados” que no son políticamente neutras sino que favorecen a medios de postura política conservadora. En cambio, el reconocimiento de los colegas consagrados tendería a una segmentación política, en la que aquellas posiciones superiores en el espacio social son validadas, pero bajo diferenciaciones según la cercanía al Frente de Todos o a Juntos por el Cambio, las dos principales fuerzas políticas argentinas. De esta manera, el mapeo del espacio social busca ubicar correspondencias entre las representaciones de los actores -que consagran simbólicamente a colegas y a medios- y su ubicación en la estructura de su campo profesional